Keeping up with the Kennedys: RFK Jr’s run for the White House
Americast
BBC
4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
JFK’s nephew is taking on Biden and Trump as an independent. He’s a big outsider but his high polling numbers are worrying the main parties, who fear that his bi-partisan policies could steal votes.
Sarah, Anthony and Marianna talk about who RFK Jr is, why he’s running, and if he lives up to his reputation as one of America’s most famous conspiracy theorists. And they get to the bottom of how he came to have a dead worm in his brain.
HOSTS: • Marianna Spring, Disinformation & Social Media Correspondent • Sarah Smith, North America editor • Anthony Zurcher, North America Correspondent
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This episode was made by Chris Flynn with Rufus Gray, Catherine Fusillo, and Claire Betzer. The technical producer was Hannah Montgommery. The series producer is Purvee Pattni. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | AmeriCasters know we have talked a lot about Donald Trump and about Joe Biden |
| 0:09.2 | and the upcoming presidential race in previous episodes, but there is going to be a third choice. |
| 0:14.0 | Okay. |
| 0:15.0 | He's a walking-talking conspiracy theory in the New York Times. |
| 0:20.0 | He's completely divorced from reality. The Guardian. he is vile. The White House. Being |
| 0:25.3 | with him was a low point of my summer. Vanity Fair. |
| 0:29.2 | Bobby Kennedy speaks with a croaking, rasping, painful sounding voice. |
| 0:34.0 | His vague explanation is that it's a virus. |
| 0:37.0 | One more likely it is a crack pipe voice, the standard. |
| 0:42.0 | I wouldn't vote to that guy either. |
| 0:45.0 | That was Robert Kennedy Jr. who is running for president as an independent reading |
| 0:52.4 | out some of the insults in the press |
| 0:54.1 | coverage that he's had so far and that goes on to be a very fancy advert for his |
| 0:58.2 | campaign and we're talking about him not because he's some kind of outside crank who hasn't got a chance |
| 1:05.4 | of being president. |
| 1:06.9 | He's got a chance of upsetting this race because he is pulling surprisingly high and he's spending a lot of money and a lot of time making sure |
| 1:14.4 | his name's going to be on the ballot in plenty of key states he's aiming to get on the |
| 1:18.3 | ballot in every single one. So in this episode we're going to be asking who is he how could he upset the White House |
| 1:24.5 | race and is it true that a worm's eaten a bit of his brain? |
| 1:28.4 | Welcome to AmeriCast. |
| 1:32.3 | AmeriCast from BBC. America. |
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