RFK Jr. expected to drop out of race by end of week, plans to endorse Trump: Sources
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Robert Kennedy Jr. is planning to drop out of the presidential race by the end of this week, sources familiar with the decision tell ABC News.

Sources say Kennedy is leaning toward endorsing former President Trump.

  • Coffee Addict@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
    29·
    4 months ago

    Sources say Kennedy is leaning toward endorsing former President Donald Trump, though the sources cautioned the decision is not yet finalized and could still change, with one source adding Kennedy’s hope is in part to finalize things quickly in order to try to blunt momentum from the DNC.

    Just more evidence that RFK was a spoiler candidate propped up by the same people who want Trump.

    Originally, I think the intention was to steal votes from the democrats. However, now that its clear RFK is stealing more votes from the republicans, they want to push him out to better Trump’s chances at taking the White House.

    • Hegar@fedia.io
      6·
      4 months ago

      RFK is stealing more votes from the republicans, they want to push him out

      He’s never struck me as willful enough to need pushing. I’m sure whichever russians are in charge can just tell him the operation ran its course and they’ll let him know if they need him again.

      • johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        4 months ago

        I witnessed a number of left-leaning people who were expressing interest, although I think it was mainly driven by dissatisfaction over Biden and not knowledge of RFK Jr. His campaign was being pretty slippery about his views and policy goals.

      • JaggedRobotPubes@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        4 months ago

        OG antivaxxers were (and still are) yoga doing, whole foods shopping smoothie cleansers. Those winds shifted hard the other way.

  • Donjuanme@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    4 months ago

    Drops out to support the candidate that fast tracked wedge issue his campaign rallied against.

    Consistency need not apply.

  • inspectorst@feddit.ukMEnglish
    2·
    4 months ago

    When asked about Trump’s attitudes to climate change and the environment, literal tumbleweed emerged from the mouth of famed environmental lawyer and lifelong environmentalist RFK Jr.

  • ThatOneKrazyKaptain@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    4 months ago

    I finally figured it out. Fucking genius.

    It was never about taking blue votes, or at least that wasn’t Plan A(Might have pivoted to that when Biden slumped, but I’ve found the pattern).

    It was about wiping out the small right wing parties. The ones who nominated guys like Rocky De Le Fuente or Roseanne, usually get 4th or 5th place among third parties. They all rallied around RFK Jr, and now it’s too late for them to get on the ballots or pick new candidates. It wipes the slate clean and leaves just the small leftist parties.

    And then the other move came into play. The Trump backed Mises Caucus seized the Libertarian Party and turned him hard right Paleo-Hoppean, but then they lost control of the leadership at the last second leading to a Leftist Libertarian taking over. Half the party left in protest and joined Trump. The right wing Libertarians have been secured.

    And the centrist Libertarians? The ones who didn’t like the Mises Caucus, but thought Chase was too progressive? They all went to RFK Jr…they’ve just been double filtered. Now they’ll all get a second chance to defect to Trump(shoring up the margins a bit, an extra few hundred votes here and there), and even if they don’t being in RFK Jrs sphere that long kills any shot of them voting Harris, so at worst they stick with Chase or don’t vote. Oh and all that chaos further weakened the Libertarians. Between that and RFK and West they weren’t even polling Top 5.

    So just two actions(Promoting RFK enough that he got all the small right wing parties and drew in some Biden voters: then backing the Mises Caucus enough for a takeover, but not enough to stop the counter-takeover and then encouraging an exodus to Trump) wiped out almost all the right wing third party support and double funneled many of them (once through the Mises exodus, once through RFK Jr’s endorsement) to Trump. That basically just leaves the Constitution Party, who are busy having a party civil war and are at their weakest in decades.