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Democrats unite against RFK Jr.
The Hill ^ | 03/31/24 6:00 AM ET | BY HANNA TRUDO AND AMIE PARNES -

Posted on 03/31/2024 6:10:39 AM PDT by RandFan

Democrats desperate to see President Biden reelected are calling for more coordinated force against Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

The independent’s rollout this week of patent lawyer and investor Nicole Shanahan as his vice president prompted Biden allies and liberal groups to escalate efforts against him, fearing his newfound cash flow and ballot access could be disastrous in November.

With a wealthy running mate by Kennedy’s side, Democrats say they should work harder to diminish his chances, insisting they need to spotlight his controversial positions and do whatever they can to make him an electoral afterthought.

“Democrats should use every tool available to them to expose the truth about Kennedy and Shanahan,” said Doug Gordon, a Democratic operative.

“Expose that they have no path to the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win,” Gordon said.

“Expose the fact that both Kennedy and Shanahan have peddled conspiracy theories for years. Expose the fact that their run is helping [former President] Trump return to the White House,” he added.

Others pointed to the 2016 election, when Green Party candidate Jill Stein took votes away from Hillary Clinton, contributing to the Democratic nominee’s loss.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: democrats; demonicrats; rfkjr
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To: RandFan

Must kind of suck for the Democrats for when they go after Kennedy, he now has MORE THAN ENOUGH resources to hit back, and even hit back MUCH HARDER.

The only chance now is for the Democrats to make the logical case they have to make against any Third Party threat, which is that a vote for Kennedy is a vote for Trump (technically, a half-vote for Trump, but that’s in the weeds). The problem is that when one gets past the 30% or so that are committed Leftist Activists, the remaining 70% either won’t understand, or won’t care.


21 posted on 03/31/2024 7:49:29 AM PDT by BobL (The USA was not built with DEI and it will not survive being forced into DEI)
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To: RandFan

What the Democrats really fear about RFK is he won’t take marching orders from Obama, Soros and the WEF. He won’t deliberately destroy America. That’s a real problem.


22 posted on 03/31/2024 7:51:22 AM PDT by Spok
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To: RandFan

I know I am going to get crap for this, but hear me out.

First of all, to be clear, I AM NOT GOING TO VOTE FOR RFK, JR. I AM ONLY GOING TO MAKE IT SEEM LIKE I WILL.

By:

1) Wearing my RFK, Jr. t-shirt all summer.
2) Pairing it with a “Make Vaccine Makers Liable Again” baseball cap, which I have to figure out how to get. I saw someone wearing one but didn’t get a chance to ask where they got it.
3) I voted for Dean Phillips in the primary because I knew Trump was going to blow away his R competition and I want the Demonrats to waste time and money sending me stuff and calling me to get me out to vote. (I also genuinely liked Phillips— not enough to vote for him over Trump in the general, but enough to give him an “Atta Boy” vote in the primary for trying to fight the good fight in his party.)
4) When they do call, I will speak with the caller and say I am undecided between Biden and RFK, Jr. so they keep calling and wasting their time. But in bringing up my concerns with each candidate, I will hope to demoralize the caller about Biden.

I am a bit stumped right now as to what concern about RFK, Jr. I could bring up that actually ends up hurting Biden in the caller’s eyes as they try to emphasize how Biden is better on that issue.


23 posted on 03/31/2024 8:08:49 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat ("Forgetting pain is convenient.Remembering it agonizing.But recovering truth is worth the suffering")
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To: aynrandfreak

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24 posted on 03/31/2024 8:15:21 AM PDT by MotorCityBuck (Keep the change, you are filthy animal! )
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To: RandFan

Finally, after 60 monotonous years of endless preaching, Camelot is dead.
Thanks be to Heaven.
I’ve been waiting a lifetime for the bloom to come off the Kennedy rose.


25 posted on 03/31/2024 8:28:32 AM PDT by Thapsus_epiphany (Socialism is a prison, Communism is a death camp )
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To: Spok

“What the Democrats really fear about RFK is he won’t take marching orders from Obama, Soros and the WEF. He won’t deliberately destroy America. That’s a real problem.”

I think we all agree the operative word here is “deliberately”.


26 posted on 03/31/2024 8:29:46 AM PDT by BobL (The USA was not built with DEI and it will not survive being forced into DEI)
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To: RandFan

This is why they’ve refused him Secret Service protection.

They’re hoping one of their looney leftist supporters will “take care of him”.


27 posted on 03/31/2024 10:13:59 AM PDT by airborne (Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic! )
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To: RandFan

They want bidet because he’s clueless and is easily manipulated. The puppet master likes his job.


28 posted on 03/31/2024 10:45:57 AM PDT by PrairieLady2 (USA: Land of the free, Because of the Brave.)
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To: RandFan

The media has kept Kennedy out of the public eye for the most part but I suspect that will change going forward and he will get more votes than people suspect. Kennedy said his strategy is not to win the election outright but rather to get enough votes whereas nobody gets to 270 and the election is thrown into Congress. Once there he believes he will emerge as the compromise candidate since neither the Repubs or Dems will have enough votes to put in either Trump or Biden. I think that very unlikely to happen but Kennedy might make the race more interesting.


29 posted on 03/31/2024 10:49:09 AM PDT by jimwatx
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To: jimwatx

Kennedy was always going to siphon off votes from the left

Although he is a strong supporter of Israel.

Think about 2A, housing, redistribution of wealth. Didn’t he also support reparations?


30 posted on 03/31/2024 2:04:51 PM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

I don’t see Kennedy winning but he appears to be siphoning more votes from Biden rather than Trump so that’s a good thing.


31 posted on 03/31/2024 3:32:27 PM PDT by jimwatx
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To: jimwatx

He has said that is one possible roadmap. It certainly isn’t crazy to imagine he could win outright with Biden talking about not even showing up for the debates. After he shows the ability to get on ballots in all 50 states and starts to get more coverage interest will pick up quite substantially.


32 posted on 04/01/2024 6:29:46 AM PDT by erlayman (E )
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