The intent of the RFK Jr. independent campaign, as an operation to support Biden and hurt Donald Trump, becomes even more obvious when you look at the recent Marist Polling [SEE HERE].
- In a three-way contest with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. running as an independent, Biden opens up a 7-point lead over Trump. 44% of registered voters support Biden. 37% back Trump, and 16% are for Kennedy.
- With Kennedy in the race, Biden’s support dips 5 percentage points among Democrats while Trump loses 10 points among Republicans.
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As noted, since before he officially made the change, this outcome is by design. RFK Jr. is running as an independent for one specific purpose – block Trump. That’s it folks.
That’s also the reason why RFK Jr. fired his campaign manager, Dennis Kucinich, and replaced him with his daughter-in-law, a former CIA operative.
{…] “Mr. Kennedy’s new campaign manager is Amaryllis Fox Kennedy, a former C.I.A. agent, memoirist and documentarian who in 2018 married Mr. Kennedy’s son, Robert F. Kennedy III.” (link) Those who do not accept things as they are, are doomed to be victims of the ‘six-ways to Sunday’ group.
Keeping in direct alignment with the agenda, Robert Kennedy Jr. announced a rather radical proposal today, he is now in favor of reparations for black Americans. The transparent intent? Cut down the growing block of Trump supporters within the black community.
NEW YORK – Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. supports issuing reparations to the black community, making him the most prominent 2024 candidate to favor the controversial policy meant to atone for slavery and legal segregation.
President Biden has largely been silent on the issue, leading to frustration among the far left.
Kennedy — who ditched his Democratic primary challenge to Biden earlier this month — has spoken out in favor of issuing federal dollars to “rebuild black infrastructure” like banks and businesses, and as well as “direct redress payments or tax credits” rather than no-strings cash giveaways.
“Communities that were specifically targeted for destruction need to be specifically targeted for repair,” he states on his campaign website. (more)
I cannot force people to see it, and I would never waste energy trying to convince. I just assemble the data and accept things as they are, not as I would pretend them to be…
…. You know who else supports reparations?
“Professional Politicians” like RFK, Jr. use a weathervane as a compass. 🤡
Sorry, but I’m going to have to challenge you on your “professional politicians” accusation.
Can you name one political office that RFK Jr. has held or sought?
Has he ever run for an elected office, or ever accepted appointment to a bureaucratic position?
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But we’ve become lazy in our accusations. We’re becoming practically neurotic in our need to vent every emotion… to react to every thought with knee-jerk, fire from the hip reactions before we even examine our facts or motives.
We are living today in serious times. We need to be just as serious when we make our contributions to the public discussion.
If there are populists arising from the (classical) liberal side, just as Trump has risen from the conservative side, then we have reason for hope to restore our country to the Constitution, to the rule of law, to E pluribus unum.
I disagree with RFK, Jr. on several issues–IF what I’ve read was accurate. I need more eyes, discerning eyes, truthful eyes, to separate truth from non-truth.
But I do know this: with the benefit of hindsight, I’d rather have had Kennedy as head of the coronavirus task force instead of Mike Pence! More people would be alive and Big Pharma would not be nearly as powerful today.
Another voice from the Left, Naomi Wolf, has said the real issue today is not Left or Right, but whether one supports freedom or tyranny.
I’m reminded that one of Jesus’s disciples told Him with seeming pride, “Master, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name; and we tried to prevent him, because he does not follow along with us.” But Jesus said to him, “Do not hinder him; for the one who is not against you is for you.”
This is not the time for us to be reckless in dismissing fellow supporters of freedom and liberty, whatever our other disagreements. In a country restored to freedom, we will be free to return to our other disagreements in public debate.
You sure bit on the uni-party’s spoiler and his diatribe. Also your implied deflections and projections cast shade on your intent and credibility. Ref my post further down this threat as a detailed reply to your comment.
Well RFK Jr. is an attorney.
RFK Jr. brief past history
ü “He voted for Joe Biden in the 2020 election.
ü He is a self-described ‘Kennedy Democrat.’
ü He has admitted his candidacy will ‘take more votes’ from the Republican candidate than Biden.
ü He is a prolific donor to Democrat candidates dating back to 1985, including to Barack Obama’s 2007 campaign.
ü He enthusiastically endorsed Hillary Clinton’s 2000 Senate, 2007 presidential, and 2016 presidential campaigns.
ü He calls himself a ‘huge admirer’ of socialist Bernie Sanders.
ü He praised rabid antisemite Louis Farrakhan as a ‘truly great partner.’
ü He supports divisive and unconstitutional affirmative action policies in higher education.
ü He called the NRA a ‘terror group.’
ü He compared hog farmers to Osama bin Laden’s international terror network.”
Do you have counter facts to refute the analysis?
Do you have counter facts refuting the agency nexus of his staff?
Do you have evidence that RFK does not support reparations?
Just curious.
Sure, anything but Trump who we know will be a great President again. You haven’t learned anything since Obama got elected have you? It IS more serious then YOU know if you would even consider this RFK spoiler loser. That is crazy talk.
anyone who supports Reparation’s is no “fellow supporters of freedom and liberty”, quite the opposite in fact … RFK is just anti vaccine … COVID19 is a vax so he was against it … nothing to do with personal liberty
Trump supporting black people will not fall for this. And the blacks that do, the commie, the tribal and the feral, would never have voted for Trump anyway.
Exactly. Not to mention, this move is tailor made to alienate MAGA Republicans and won’t attract any moderate conservatives that aren’t already never Trumpers.
This is the move of someone who is intending to steal from Biden’s left.
I’m not sure. Too many black voters have been voting commiecrat for 50 years with the threat of they-will-take-it-from-you if you don’t vote dem. It’s worked.
Ron Paul anyone? Yes this has been before and worked. This will work again and with the CHEAT still ongoing Trump will “lose” this election as well. We are doomed.
WRONG! Get out of the foxhole now! Sure hope You are not the one people turn to in your family that need uplifting!
Was the see eye ay responsible for his uncles death?
Now the same organization is in charge of his campaign?
Maybe some in the press should ask that question.
Once in, you’re never entirely out.
His uncle’s and father’s deaths were most certainly facilitated by the Kennedy Celtic Crime Clan – JFK for being a morphine-addled pervert who waxed too truthfully revealing in some of his his public speaking, and RFK being worth more to cement the Kennedy martyrdom cult dead than as compromised president.
RFK, Jr. has reaped the benefits of his uncle’s and father’s sacrifices for continued dynastic power and securing a permanent seat at ‘the big table’.
Dennis kucinich, there’s a name from the past and not a good one.
Better than the CIA running the campaign!
He’s a good Democrat after all. Taking one for the team.
RFK Jr just lost any credibility he might have had with me. He’s just another one who plays the race card for votes! You stand a much better chance with a guy like Trump.
Yep! He also uses the sympathy card for votes. His uncle and his father were assassinated. Even though he registered as an Independent recently, he is and always will be a democrat!
If blacks fall for this…then they are fools! The demonrats have promised everything to blacks for decades…and their supposedly best hope ever was having a black man as a President….who should have done more but was more focused on infiltrating this country and working toward its demise. How did that work out for them? Only Trump delivered! And within four years….not over decades like the demonrats have promised and never delivered! Actions speak louder than words and hopefully…they’ve wised up! Like we have about the rino GOP excrement we supported for decades! Both sides are traitorous rats to us and our country and I hope black Americans can see this and don’t fall for the lie! RFK Jr is looking more like a Ted Kennedy than a John Kennedy! Working with the swamp…instead of exposing it!
F this idiot. I once thought he might have something to contribute. Not anymore.
So much for RFK Jr. Just another democrat.
Thank you, Sundance for the reporting. Reparations, how ridiculous!! WTF?!?!!
Another Yankee demonstrates his “Americanism.”
My,my the Kennedy true colors are finally coming out. He couldn’t care less about Blacks except to bed them whenever he got a chance. Now in true Kennedy fashion he’s trying to buy their vote. Course once all is said and done he’ll renege and they will suffer again at the hands of a liberal Democrat.
Kennedy colors have always been on stage. Sometimes you have to put the popcorn down.
RFK JR. The closer you look, the worse he is.
Politicians always return to their first instincts.
Jr. is a Marxists, a Globalist, elitist neo-feudalist, and is already showing his true colors.
To me, this latest position is either motivated by desperation or cluelessness.
As pointed out above, this isn’t going to peel off any Blacks for Trump, its only going to persuade Biden Blacks,…
Gee, do you suppose by Nov. 2024 Jr. will pull far more votes from the D nominee, than from PDJT?
Actually, thats my prediction,…
What polling doesn’t show is smart blacks versus dumb blacks and how they vote. My take is that the common sense black will see through RFK and the less informed will vote for RFK. When you separate types of voters RFK does not pull Trump voters. These polls are likely designed to show this result as a form of election interference and voter suppression by discouraging Trump voters.
I don’t put much credibility in these polls. They are most likely another democrat op.
A Kennedy is a Kennedy is a Kennedy. This one is no different!!
RFK Jr. is nothing more than the modern day version of Joe Manchin, Bernie Sanders and Joe Lieberman who appeared to break party ranks by talking about policies and actions that actually mattered to the electorate. But in the end they all were just facades intended to seduce votes because when push came to shove they always caucused with the Democrats and voted the party line. That said, RFK Jr. is now the Independent/DNC/uni-party clone of the previous RNC/uni-party clone, Ron DeSantis, who are both employed by the globalist cabal to eliminate POTUS candidate DJT and fracture MAGA as a political force. The bottom line is smack yourself in the face, wake up to reality and don’t be seduced by your emotions and this fake quackery because we’ve been down that road before which has always ended in betrayal and disappointment.
It won’t EVER PASS! Just an attempt to BUY VOTES. RFK is showing his true colors of CORRUPTION!
Is this announcement by RFK Jr part of an effort to shift the Overton window for reparations ? The destructive leftists seek an enviroment of opinion where one who would oppose – or even question – direct redress payments is a “racist.” It occurs to me that RFK’s proposal and Newsom’s on this issue are not violative of the U.S. Constitution. Some might consider me to be a racist for believing so.
The issues of who is eligible to receive and who must pay are incalcuable. My own ancestory is probably common. Slavery was abolished in December by the 13 th Amendment. Of my 8 great-grandparents 3 were alive at thhat time but living in Ireland and England where they were born. One of the 8 fought for the Union during the Civil War and was wounded in action .He spent the remainder of his enlistment in recovery. None of the other 4 owned slaves or appeared to have experienced any benefit of slavery. Would I be entitled to a 3/8, 1/2, or 100% exemption? Are those of us with similar ancestoral backgrounds racist for questioning why we should bear the cost of reparations?
How do we determine who is entitled to a reparartion benefit sch as a redress payment ? Should all person of black African ancestory benefit or only those who can establish an ancestor who was enslaved ? How do we factor the percentage of ancestors from other racial backgrounds or non-enslaved backgrounds ?
Yet another issue is what is achieved by reparations payments ? Is it then appropriate to eliminate all “affirmative action” measures ? If our “liability” for a period of slavery that ended more than 150 years ago is not termintaed what de we get in return ?
The devil is in the details. The range of civil discussion must include at least the above. I do not suggest this is an exhaustive analysis.
Or what about everyone who’s family’s immigrated here after the civil war? Or are black but came to the US after the civil war? Or my favorite: The husband is black, the wife is white- do they cancel each other?
You raise more good points. Reparations gets attention and excites some people, but would be unsound as well as unconstitutional and unworkable. It is important that we remain able to voice our opinions and discuss our opposition to it. We are not racist for doing so.
It was always appropriate to end affirmative action, it is racist, discriminatory, and unconstitutional. It is also societally divisive.
Reparations have already been paid, in some sense, by 60 + years worth of subsidized rent, government housing, WIC, welfare, tax credits for low income and for children, food stamps, EBT cards, Obamaphones, Obamacare, and, over the last three years, gang “takings” on a scale which has closed many long established department stores, said to be in the billions.
Not to mention preferences for college admissions, honors, and job opportunities.
And government dollars for historically black colleges and universities.
Imagine if you were given reparations and you lived in San Francisco. In the long list of now closed businesses where would you spend it?
Kennedy’s “rebuild black infrastructure”? Is that so dissimilar to President Trump’s opportunity zones, run by the good Dr. Carson?
One point to make…Marist polls run by notorious lefty/Hillary bootlicker, Lee Miringoff, should be taken with a grain of salt… The reality is, once people are reminded of ex heroin addict Kennedy’s past history, whatever his intentions and plans are to affect 2024, will become dust… His past history will destroy him. Marist polls is another lefty suppression poll. Nothing more.
All bets are off with this scumbag who drove his wife to suicide. The only concern I have is that he will take votes from the Steve Deasce type of sanctimonious creep who would normally hold there nose and vote for Trump.
Kennedy is walking back “race based reparations”…now says it goes to all poor communities …not based on race…
He is such a fake.
Also, I think there are two issues that contribute to poverty that are never discussed…
Inner city Democrat policies (all the way from failing schools, generational welfare promotion, defund the police, to Soros AGs and prosecutors that encourage criminal activity, etc)
…. and the breakdown of the family unit.
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Or the biggest cause of poverty of them all. Sending all of our productive industries overseas, and allowing the consolidation and monopolization of those same productive industries.
According to Rich Baris (people’s pundit), RFK Jr’s support by Trump supporters is made up of mostly white people. I am glad to see this. The Trump supporters who found RFK Jr an attractive candidate will drop him now. A black supporter of President Trump won’t be fooled by reparations. They probably don’t even believe in reparations.
Without RFK in the race Trump takes 4 of 6 swing states. WITH RFK Trump takes 5 of 6.
Are you talking about the real swing states? Or the Dominion swing states?
As noted, since before he officially made the change, this outcome is by design. RFK Jr. is running as an independent for one specific purpose – block Trump. That’s it folks. – @Sundance
AND HE WILL FAIL.
Is it just me?
The CIA is now running RFK Jr’s campaign; and is running “an Op”;
but we are to believe that the NPR/PBS poll is straight-up scientific polling ??????
Really?
Reparations will steal more voters from Biden; and turn off Never Trumper’s who thought RFK Jr
was a viable “middle-of-the-road” moderate non-Trump option.
The agency’s Amaryllis is being too cute by half.
Ah Sundance I bow to your wisdom. While I figured the unhappy democrats would follow him, the group that vote for names and not accomplishments would follow him, but the republicans would stay true to their vote.
I just cannot wrap my head around how someone who has openly accused the CIA of being involved in a family member’s assassination can have a CIA operative running his campaign.
It looks to me like he has been blackmailed-threatened: if you don’t do what we say, well we know where your children are….
It is also possible that he is lying in order to be perceived as harmless then once he gets in he goes after corruption hard.
But otherwise, he really seems like just another Zionist shill and left wing panderer.
Very srange.
Marist Polls, and most others, look the same year after year: over sample dems, create mystical Independent Party ID that doesn’t exist, and under sample Republicans. Majority of states don’t have ‘Independent’ as a party id and use ‘no party/other‘. When Democrats cheat they need polls to match the desired outcome which absentee ballots and fluid registrations near election day do.
1,313 (100.00%) Surveyed – 1,218 (92.76%) Registered = 95 (7.24%) Can’t vote?
DEM 38% \
REP 31% -| These ratios don’t exist anywhere local, state, or federal
IND 30% /
This isn’t to say that RFK Jr’s absurd sop to the Reparations Klan is not a craven attempt to split the black vote but I don’t think he matters to most voters under 50 who see him as just another D.
The Hood is backing Trump more everyday
I seldom read anything about Bush and Clinton.election with Perot as 3rd party candidate. In the election, Perot did not win any electoral votes, but won over 19.7 million votes for an 18.9% share of the popular vote.The Democrate crazies did not start a 3rd party,they took over an existing party.The USA isn’t Italy there can practically only be 2 parties.Could somebody tell the fans of Kennedy that he will get the Dem candidate elected?It likely wont by the sleepy Joe character
Not buying the “take votes from Trump” narrative. I suspect the votes RFK will “take” from President Trump are either demonrats who do not want to vote for the pervert and had decided to go for “Trump”, or people who were never going to vote for President Trump anyway.
Is a hoot on several fronts. First of all, he’s not going to peel off the first Trump voter. Trump voters are sick of a corrupted government, and they’re not looking for a shiny new liberal Democrat from a political family. Does Trump lose 10 points to kennedy? He won’t lose 10 voters. Second, if blacks are dumb enough to believe that payments to contractors to make their lives better is on par with the reparations they demand, let’s stop chasing them as voters. They’re dumb as a rock
Kennedy knows reparations will never happen, but he will sell it to the low information voters and no-liabilty voters.
Supporting reparations will turn off anyone not a POC… he can pander all he wants,, but I think that will alienate more people than it will attract. SMH… then again, this is clown world and I just don’t get it.
RFK – you filthy slime ball just in it to help the party that poops all over you. He is for climate change and for open borders, he’s as leftist as they come. He wrote a book early to slime his way in and fool stupid people. Even his siblings are coming out and attacking him for messing up the votes. He deserves no respect.
I wasn’t sure until RFK Jr decided to advocate for reparations. Reparations are Lucy-with-the-football. It’s never going to happen but black voters fall for it EVERY SINGLE TIME. This is the final straw for anyone deciding whether RFK Jr is really the “great healer” that he claims to be. He is not. His campaign is strictly to pull from Pres Trump using his anti vaxx status as the magnet. He will be rewarded handsomely, I have no doubt.
In my opinion Styx is spot on here:
https://rumble.com/v3qa13v-explaining-why-rfk-junior-isnt-a-threat-to-trump-it-aint-just-reparations.html
How is the whole concept of reparations not a “bill of attainder,” and thus stupendously unconstitutional?
reparations can mean many things. E.g., subsidized loans, occasional grants for charitable purposes, special small biz deals, make work programs, no show jobs for activists, etc.
well he just lost all the independents he had and a fair number of GOPe voters … he’s toast … and he hardened all the soft MAGA voters that were giving him a look …