All is not well in Camp Kamala. The Democrats’ nominee, Kamala Harris, is at war with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Vice Presidential candidate Kennedy is fighting the Democratic Party, which is trying to stop him from getting on the ballots of several states. Kennedy, from a legacy Democrat family, has filed as an independent.
Democrats would not allow him to compete for the nomination and instead conducted a political coup against President Joe Biden and installed Kamala Harris as their nominee — without asking the Democrat voters or holding an open-nomination convention.
Kennedy will appear on Alaska’s general election ballot in November. In addition, he made the ballots of Delaware, Colorado, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Washington, and West Virginia. In California, he made the ballot as a nominee of the American Independent Party. In Hawaii, he’s the nominee for the We the People party. All of this adds up up to just over 200 electoral votes, but he needs 270.
But the Democratic National Committee and Democrat political action committees are throwing roadblocks up to prevent Kennedy’s ballot access, to block the other 70 electoral votes. New York is denying Kennedy access to the ballot, and the Democrats are challenging his ability to be on the ballots in Illinois, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Delaware, and Georgia.
Now, the Harris campaign is getting nasty with Kennedy, alleging, through leaks to pro-Harris media like the New York Times and the Washington Post, that RFK Jr. has attempted — unsuccessfully — to meet with Harris to discuss endorsing her in exchange for a cabinet position, and all the major media outlets are reporting the rumor.
Kennedy has a 34.4% favorability rating based on 122 polls, according to The Hill. That’s enough to erode some of Harris’ support between now and November, so he is seen as a threat. The same poll aggregate gives Harris a 49.5% favorability rating, based on 164 polls, while Trump has a 44.0% favorability rating based on 470 polls.
While Harris is trying to discredit Kennedy, on X/Twitter, RFK Jr. doesn’t sound like someone who wants to be part of the Harris cabinet. He says he will not endorse her. Kennedy went to battle with Harris, writing:
“VP Harris’s Democratic Party would be unrecognizable to my father and uncle and I cannot reconcile it with my values.
“The Democratic Party of RFK and JFK was the party of civil liberties and free speech.
“VP Harris‘s is the party of censorship, lockdowns, and medical coercion.
“Kennedy Democrats were anti-war. Kamala‘s is riddled with neocon warmongers.
“The RFK/JFK dems were allies of Main Street, cops, firefighters, and working people.
“VP Harris’s is the Party of Big Tech, Big Pharma and Wall Street.
“My dad and uncle’s party was the champion of voting rights and fair elections. VP Harris’s is the party of lawfare, disenfranchisement, and the coronation of its candidates by corporate donors and party elites.
“I’ve used our nation’s courts to prosecute corporations who hurt Black Americans. VP Harris used our nation’s courts to mercilessly prosecute Black Americans and exploit them for their labor.
“My father and uncle prided themselves on their skills at debate and their ability to articulate a coherent vision for our country. VP Harris is scared to debate and can’t survive an unscripted interview.
“Instead of outlining a vision, she relies on middleschool tactics – memes, forged headlines, infantile slogans (Joy!) and name calling (“Republicans are weird.“)
“I’ve spent years battling government corruption and lies. VP Harris spent years gaslighting Americans about the health of our Commander in Chief. I have no plans to endorse Kamala Harris for President. I do have a plan to defeat her.“
Kennedy is an environmental lawyer, author, and activist against Big Pharma and mass vaccination for Covid. He is an iconoclast and renegade from the Democratic establishment, including his own family. It appears that the Harris campaign is expecting him to endorse Donald Trump and is trying to damage him in advance.
The son of the U.S. attorney general, U.S. senator, and 1968 Democrat presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, who was assassinated while campaigning in Los Angeles, Kennedy is also a nephew of Democrat President John F. Kennedy, who was also assassinated, and he’s a member of a blue-blood Kennedy family, which is known to be staunchly Democrat.
During his campaign, President Joe Biden refused to assign Secret Service protection to RFK Jr. until after the assassination attempt on Donald Trump.