- RFK Jr. is now operating for president as an unbiased, and Republicans view him as a menace.
- The RNC issued a memo itemizing 23 completely different the explanation why Republicans should not help him.
- The twenty third level: he denied the validity of two presidential elections.
Robert F. Kennedy is now operating for president as an unbiased, and the Republican Nationwide Committee (RNC) is providing 23 completely different the explanation why Republicans should not help him.
Amongst these causes: Kennedy’s an election denier.
“He referred to as the 2000 presidential election stolen ‘underneath a cloud of soiled methods’ and stated Republicans ‘repair[ed]’ the 2004 presidential election,” reads a memo launched by the RNC on Monday. Different causes embrace Kennedy’s help for fundamental elements of the Democratic Celebration’s agenda, together with combatting local weather change and supporting abortion rights.
It is true that Kennedy, who has a historical past of constructing unfounded and conspiratorial claims, has certainly questioned each the 2000 and 2004 elections.
“For the second election in a row, the president of the USA was chosen not by the uncontested will of the folks however underneath a cloud of soiled methods,” Kennedy wrote in 2006. “Given the scope of the GOP machinations, we merely can’t be sure that the proper man now occupies the Oval Workplace.”
But former President Donald Trump — and even the RNC itself — engaged in probably the most egregious and widespread denial of the validity of an election in latest American reminiscence.
The RNC’s involvement in selling Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election can also be well-documented. RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel and staffers on the committee helped arrange slates of alternate, pro-Trump electors throughout a number of battleground states after the election had been licensed by the Electoral Faculty.
A few of these electors are actually dealing with prosecution of their respective states.
The anti-RFK Jr. memo comes as Republicans search to dampen the previous Democrat’s attraction amongst Republicans, fearing he might siphon votes away from the GOP nominee and make it extra doubtless that President Joe Biden will get re-elected.
His skepticism of COVID vaccines, opposition to aiding Ukraine, and place on LGBTQ points has appealed extra to Republicans than Democrats up to now. His candidacy has additionally drawn important monetary backing from the proper.
Kennedy has acknowledged as a lot himself, just lately saying he takes “extra votes” from Trump than Biden.
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