RFK Jr.’s Trojan Horse Campaign: On the Ballot in Michigan.

Unf*cking The Republic

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Government, News, Politics

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🗓️ 22 April 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

For months we’ve said that RFK Jr. is the biggest threat to Biden’s re-election. Now that he’s gained ballot access in Michigan, it’s time to go beyond the vaccine headlines to examine Kennedy the nascent politician and what his candidacy means to this election cycle. Just as the pollsters missed several important cues during the 2016 election, we might be underestimating the impact Kennedy has beyond his loyal environmental and anti-vaccine followers the media focuses on.

Resources

FiveThirtyEight: 2016 Election Forecast

Associate Press: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. secures ballot access in battleground state of Michigan

New York Times: The Ex-Bernie Sanders Pollster Raising Alarms About R.F.K. Jr.’s Appeal Among Latinos and Young Voters

Quinnipiac Poll: Is Democracy In The U.S. Working? It's A Toss-Up, But Voters Don't See It Ending In Their Lifetimes

The Conversation: Anti-vaccination beliefs don’t follow the usual political polarization

Wired: RFK Jr.’s Very Online, Conspiracy-Filled Campaign

New York Times: R.F.K. Jr.’s Environmental Colleagues Urge Him to Drop Presidential Bid

CNN: Kennedy family brushes off RFK Jr.’s campaign as they endorse Biden

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0:00.0	Topical cream
0:02.5	A pod listener's dream
0:06.1	Unfucking the news
0:08.6	And current events
0:11.3	Topical cream
0:13.3	Yeah you know what I mean
0:16.8	A quarter of an hour
0:19.6	It gets you out two cents topical cream.
0:28.6	A lot of talk about RFK Jr. this week, so let's have it out a bit, shall we?
0:38.6	UNFTR!
0:42.4	For several months, I've been saying that the biggest threat to Biden's re-election, apart from his age, or rising inequality, his blind support of Israel's ethnic cleansing policy in Gaza, or his belief that compromise with Republicans is still possible,
0:57.5	the incremental nature of his bottom-up, middle-out strategy, not making enough of an impact on the real wages and economic security for the lower and middle classes in this country,
1:05.5	failure to meaningfully stem the tide of border crossings, inability to connect with young voters, is the specter of
1:11.3	RFK Jr. In fact, we were just talking about that on the podcast this week. And as if on cue,
1:17.7	listener Brendan T emailed about RFK as I was writing Max Notes for this week's newsletter.
1:23.4	What's the newsletter you might ask? Well, that's the free weekly newsletter roundup of
1:27.1	important news for progressives, of course.
1:29.3	Just go to UNFTR.com to subscribe for free and join the thousands of like-minded and intellectually curious progressives in our journey.
1:36.9	Anyway, here's what Brendan wrote.
1:39.1	Quote, I have a lot of kids and a lot of jobs slash roles, so not a lot of time.
1:43.9	A friend of mine was talking
1:45.5	up RFK Jr., and I didn't really have a response. So I checked up on his platform, and other
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