Robert F. Kennedy’s party change this week from a Democrat to independent sparked an influx of donations, a super PAC affiliated with his campaign announced on Tuesday.
American Values, the political action committee boosting Kennedy’s presidential bid, said that it raised $11 million just six hours after the candidate reintroduced himself to voters as an independent White House aspirant.
“Americans don’t like censorship or propaganda and they are tired of being lied to,” said Tony Lyons, who co-founded the American Values PAC, in a statement.
“It’s clear that Bobby is inspiring a populist movement that unites left and right, black, and white, rural and urban, young and old,” Lyons said. “His campaign is a movement built for and by the people, not corrupt politicians and corporations.
You can see it from town to town across the country: There is real electricity and a palpable desire for change.”
Kennedy, who comes from a wealthy dynasty, is not hard-pressed for money. But the large fundraising sum is the latest indication that he could have staying power in the unpredictable 2024 presidential race.
Man, the Republicans are going to be awfully upset when they realized that the anti-vax lunatic they propped up appeals way more to their base than to ours.
Seriously. Despite being an insane pseudoscientist, he comes across as just reasonably right wing enough without being too whacko that he might indeed get a bunch of the anti-Trump Republican votes.
With the name and a D behind it, he might have pulled some low info voters.
But as an independent? With other family members speaking out against him? Unlikely.
Naw what’s really going to piss them off is when the antivax lunatic they propped up with 11 million takes the cash and runs,
God, let him siphon votes from the GOP.
It’s kinda looking that way, but I’m not counting the chickens before they hatch. https://www.newsweek.com/rfk-jr-lesson-maga-world-careful-what-you-wish-opinion-1833086
Anyone on the left who would vote for RFK Jr would never have voted for Biden in the first place.
I’d love to see the breakdown of what makes up the donations. A whale donating 10m with two fat cats at 500k each is actually plausible.
Wouldn’t it be SANE for that kind of transparency to be immediately available?
Ninja edit: I mean, how could we possibly protect this Free Speech (PAC money) without knowing who said it…?
“A fool and their money are soon parted.”
So the question comes down to, “who will RFKJr pull more votes from, the Republicans or the Democrats”?
He is still going to lose. He id about as indepedent as Sinema trying to be centrist.
Now give us the details on just where the money was donated from and in what total amounts. Anyone want to guess that a bunch of conservative PACs are involved?
