Anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to announce Monday that he will drop his Democratic bid for president and run as an independent or third-party candidate, adding a new wrinkle to a 2024 race currently heading toward a rematch between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump.
Kennedy’s campaign has teased the announcement in the days leading up to a Monday afternoon speech in Philadelphia. In a recent video, Kennedy said there is corruption “in the leadership of both political parties” and said he wants to “rewrite the assumptions and change the habits of American politics.”
The video came shortly after Mediaite reported he planned to launch an independent bid.
Oh no, stop, come back…
Democrats: 🕺💃
He’s not wrong that there’s corruption in both parties leadership. Everything else on the other hand, completely insane about
He’s literally a chaos agent of Steve Bannon. He’s not right about anything, and legitimizing him as a real candidate makes this worse.
"Former chief Trump strategist Steve Bannon spent “months” encouraging anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to run against President Joe Biden in the 2024 election, according to a report from CBS News.
People familiar with the matter told the outlet that Bannon hoped Kennedy could serve as a “useful chaos agent” in the election while also spreading “anti-vaccine sentiment around the country,” according to CBS News’ Robert Costa."
He’s wrong if he’s going to pretend that he’s not part of that same corruption.
Yep, he just announced it. Truthfully I have no idea if this schedule hurts Biden or Trump more, but my gut says the latter
I hope he takes votes away from donnie mostly. And the Green Party just looks like a Russian front these days - I wonder if whatever useful idiot they prop up realize that, or do they come to terms with it later?
Can’t be a spoiler candidate designed to siphon votes away from Biden in the general election if he isn’t on the ballot, hence this move to run as an independent as there’s no fucking way he would win a primary.
Polls are showing hes more likely to pull votes from Trump, the “centrist antivax conspiracy both sides” nonsense.
The Trump campaign is rearing up attacks on him now.