RFK running as Libertarian gets him on more state ballots to take more votes from Biden.He should definitely do.
The Trump crowd is getting more fearful that RFK Jr. will take votes away from Donald. Donald Trump Jr. Tears Into ‘Radical Democrat’ RFK Jr. on Newsmax: ‘Liberal Who Happens To Be Anti-Vax’ https://www.mediaite.com/tv/donald-...n-newsmax-liberal-who-happens-to-be-anti-vax/
Like you,Jr is an idiot. Biden vs Trump Trump +1.8 Biden vs Trump and RFK Trump +3.7 Biden vs Trump,RFK,West and Stein Trump +4.8
'Worst I've seen': RFK Jr. and super PAC accused of serious campaign finance violations https://www.rawstory.com/rfk-super-pac/ Independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been accused in a new complaint to the Federal Election Commission of unlawfully working with a super PAC in a $15 million campaign effort, the Washington Post reported on Friday. (More at above url)
Let's see what Kennedy is wasting his donors money on. 'Unhinged' Robert F. Kennedy Jr. commercial disturbs Super Bowl viewers https://www.indy100.com/politics/unhinged-robert-kennedy-advert-disturbs-super-bowl-viewers Kennedy Super Bowl ad: Cousin blasts RFK Jr. ad invoking JFK’s 1960 campaign https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/02...blasts-super-bowl-ad-for-robert-f-kennedy-jr/ Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Super Bowl Ad Baffles Viewers: ‘Was My Stream/Mind Just Hacked?’ | Video https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/robert-f-kennedy-jr-super-021040328.html RFK Jr. apologizes to family after Super Bowl ad https://www.axios.com/2024/02/12/rfk-jr-super-bowl-ad-2024
RFK Jr. is not only losing his race for President while making family furious due to his commercials trying associated him with the actual President John F. Kennedy -- RFK Jr. is also losing in court where he tried to sue journalists for defamation for outlining the facts about his anti-vax activities. Strictly Legal: In New Hampshire, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. loses a case https://www.cincinnati.com/story/op...-in-new-hampshire-strictly-legal/72574498007/ The headline does not refer to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s struggles at the ballot box. Rather, this column concerns his loss in a New Hampshire Federal District Court. Kennedy's effort to have that court exercise jurisdiction over his defamation suit failed out of the gate. Kennedy filed a libel suit in a New Hampshire state court against David Vickery. Vickery had written an article in the Daily Kos on August 29, 2020. The article concerned a rally of “Corona Truthers," who had gathered in Berlin to protest efforts undertaken by Angela Merkel's government to stop the spread of the coronavirus. In his speech at the rally, Kennedy warned against the “totalitarianism" of the Merkel government. Referring to the famous Berlin speech of his uncle President John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy said “Today Berlin is once again the front against totalitarianism." Two and one-half years later, on April 19, 2023, Kennedy announced his candidacy for President of the United States. The following month, Kennedy sent Vickrey a letter claiming the article on the Daily Kos website defamed him. Kennedy threatened to sue in the Southern District of New York if Vickrey failed to provide a monetary settlement of Kennedy's claim. At some point after he sent the letter, it must have dawned on Kennedy that he was outside the New York statute of limitations. Demonstrating some resourcefulness, Kennedy filed the suit in New Hampshire, hoping to take advantage of New Hampshire's three-year statute of limitations. The problem that Kennedy ran into immediately was that neither he nor Vickery had any connection to New Hampshire. Kennedy is a New York resident, with a San Diego mailing address. Vickery lives and works in Maine. Vickery asked the court to dismiss the action for lack of personal jurisdiction. Vickery argued that he did not have minimum contacts with new Hampshire to justify a New Hampshire court to exercise jurisdiction over him. Kennedy argued that when he published the article, Vickrey “specifically targeted voting residents of New Hampshire, in order to derail Mr. Kennedy's Presidential campaign." In Kennedy's view, that constituted a specific effort by Vickery to avail himself of the privilege of doing business in New Hampshire. But this argument was derailed by the timeline. Vickery published his article more than two years before Kennedy announced his run for the presidency. As the court noted, “the article could not have been intended to adversely impact Kennedy's standing as a presidential candidate or, more specifically, his performance in New Hampshire's 2024 presidential primary election." Kennedy tried to dodge this inconvenient fact by asserting that “as soon as Mr. Kennedy announced his primary challenge, Vickrey reshared and republished his defamatory article." But Kennedy cited no instances where Vickery had republished the article. His only citation was to the original article. But as the court noted, Kennedy's brief seemed unmoored to facts. At one point, Kennedy argued that Vickrey's allegedly defamatory article “prompted the Daily Kos to actively solicit New Hampshire residents to fund Mr. Vickrey's legal defense of the instant action due to this New Hampshire focus." But the citations Kennedy relied on in support simply did not establish this claim. Plaintiffs engage in forum shopping for a host of reasons – they may be looking for a favorable judge, or, as in this case, an opportunity to beat the statute of limitations. But those plans are almost certain to fail when neither the plaintiff nor the defendant have anything to do with the forum.
RFK Jr.'s PAC returned millions to a donor. Campaign experts say that’s highly unusual. https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/13/bridge-funding-rfk-jr-super-pac-00141260 The super PAC supporting Robert F. Kennedy Jr. padded its war chest with millions of dollars in contributions from one of the best-known private security executives in the country, Gavin de Becker. And then it did something remarkable: it returned nearly all of the funds, making his contributions effectively a loan. The move shocked campaign finance watchdogs who said they’ve never seen such an arrangement before. De Becker’s contributions helped the PAC report a high fundraising total that can, in turn, be seen as a sign of legitimacy for the committee. All told, de Becker made $10 million in donations to the super PAC; $9.65 million of which was returned. “If someone gives that kind of money to a Super PAC, they’re expecting it to be used by the super PAC for political purposes. I’ve not ever heard of a situation of putting out millions of dollars to a super PAC to get them over a bridge and then to get the money refunded,” said Craig Holman, of the ethics watchdog group Public Citizen. High fundraising totals — like the ones American Values PAC has been touting over the last year lend a veneer of validity to a super PAC — beget even more contributions from other donors. Using a series of back-and-forth transactions to take on de facto loans without having to report them as debt also obscures American Values’ actual finances. The campaign finance landscape is constantly evolving, with campaigns and their allies pushing new boundaries every election cycle, and the Kennedy super PAC will end up being seen as a pioneer or an outlier. If others adopt its practices, outside groups could have another tool for shirking transparency. Both de Becker and Tony Lyons, co-founder of the super PAC, said there was no sleight of hand in the arrangement. They both called it “bridge funding” in separate responses to questions from POLITICO. They said de Becker can ask for the donations back at his own discretion if the money has not yet been spent. “I have the option to ask for some of my donation back, but there is no guarantee,” de Becker wrote in a text. De Becker also said that bridge funding happens all the time in the business world and other forums. Both de Becker and Lyons declined to elaborate further on the arrangement. Whether loan or bridge payments, the money sent to de Becker underscores the central role he has come to occupy in the Kennedy campaign operations. One of the country’s most famous security specialists, he also is now a top vendor for the Kennedy campaign. It paid out $1.48 million to Gavin de Becker & Associates for security services and travel expenses, a massive sum of money for an operation that spent $16.6 million in total expenses in 2023. The company advertises itself as a security firm for prominent individuals and once provided security for Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos (including as he went to war with the National Enquirer over reports about his texts and love life) and former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. The Kennedy campaign declined an interview request about the expenditures to the company. De Becker’s personal wealth comes not just from his role as a security expert, but he is also a prolific author and talking head. He has signaled he is comfortable parting with some of that money to aid Kennedy’s independent bid, including a planned $4 million donation he is set to make to the super PAC on Thursday, Feb. 15. “If the PAC has the means to return some, they will. That way, I’ll be financially able to help on another day they might need the help. Every time I have sent millions of dollars to the PAC, there is the possibility none of it will come back. If that happens, it means the PAC needed the money and spent the money, and if that helps get RFK Jr elected, I’m happy with that outcome,” de Becker wrote in a text. Campaign finance experts said they’d never seen a donor-PAC relationship like that between de Becker and American Values 2024 or heard of a predetermined agreement to refund unspent money in the middle of a campaign cycle. “We don’t see stuff like this. We see stuff, go back to the donor from time to time, if there’s leftover but not like, you know, this, this apparent arrangement beforehand,” said Robert Maguire, research director at the government watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. “My understanding is the assumption when you give to a super PAC is that money is gone unless by chance they have money left over when the election is done and you ask for it back,” he added. The flow of money between American Values 2024 and de Becker is so great that the super PAC has spent significantly more money on refunds than on directly supporting Kennedy’s candidacy in 2023. The group spent less than $1 million on independent expenditures to support Kennedy last year, mostly on newspaper ads and merchandise — far less than the $9.65 million in refunds to de Becker. Refunding de Becker’s donations accounted for about 70 percent of the PAC’s total expenditures last year. That may be changing now as the super PAC said it spent $7 million on an ad that ran during the Super Bowl. Excluding refunds, de Becker is the second highest donor to American Values 2024 — only behind Tim Mellon, a GOP mega donor, who gave $15.5 million in 2023. None of Mellon’s contributions have been refunded. De Becker is also the biggest line item for Kennedy’s campaign. Payments to his security firm were the highest aggregate expense for the campaign last year, further entwining de Becker’s financial relationship with Kennedy’s presidential bid. “It certainly seems like he has a financial interest in helping keep the candidate viable as long as possible,” said Saurav Ghosh, of Campaign Legal Center. “It stands to reason that money dries up if RFK Jr. is no longer in the race. So yeah, I think there’s definitely an aspect of this where he’s playing on both sides of the equation.”
How Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to get on the ballot in North Carolina Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plan to run under the We The People party banner in North Carolina. The party must obtain required signatures before the end of May. https://www.wral.com/story/heres-ho...get-on-the-ballot-in-north-carolina/21287290/ If independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wanted to get on North Carolina's November ballot as an unaffiliated candidate, he'd have to collect more than 83,000 signatures from registered voters in the state by March 5. But there is an easier path for Kennedy to appear on the November ballot in North Carolina, and his campaign plans to use it. Rather than seeking ballot access as an individual, he now hopes to land on state ballots by becoming affiliated with a political party. A political party can gain ballot access by collecting just 13,865 signatures from registered and qualified voters. That number, as laid out in state law, is equal to 0.25% of the total number of voters who voted in the most recent general election for voters. The petition must be signed by at least 200 registered voters from each of three congressional districts in North Carolina. The We The People Party, formed by Kennedy supporters this year, submitted a petition request form to the State Board of Elections. It is one of dozens of petitions currently in progress, including one for Kennedy himself. The party has until June 1 to submit its signatures, which will then be verified by county election officials. "Once the party has ballot access, they will nominate Mr. Kennedy as their candidate and he will officially be on the ballot in North Carolina," Stefanie Spear, Kennedy's campaign press secretary, told WRAL in an email. "The party will submit all its signatures at the end of the petitioning process." Kennedy garnered 8% support in a poll of 1,099 registered voters released this week by Fox News. Republican front-runner Donald Trump led President Joe Biden 46% to 37% in the poll, which also included potential Green Party candidate Jill Stein (2%) and independent candidate Cornell West (1%). Trump led Biden 50% to 45% in a head-to-head match-up in the same poll. In North Carolina, Trump led Biden by five points — 44%-to-39% — in a recent poll conducted by political scientists at Meredith College. Trump, the former president, won North Carolina in 2016 and 2020. In 2020, he defeated Biden by fewer than 75,000 votes. Candidates from the Libertarian, Green and Constitution parties appeared on North Carolina's presidential ballot in 2022. The Kennedy campaign says Kennedy has already gained access to ballots in Utah and New Hampshire. As of now, the winners of presidential primaries in the Democratic, Republican and Libertarian parties will appear on the North Carolina ballot in November. But other parties can still gain ballot access through the petition process. The Green Party did so in 2022. In addition to We The People, the North Carolina Forward Party, the American Political Party, the Veterans Party of North Carolina and the American Platform Party have submitted petition request forms for 2024. The Veterans Party of North Carolina has submitted 223 valid signatures. No other party has submitted valid signatures. Early voting for the March 5 primary in North Carolina began Thursday.
RFK Jr. - "Sorry I killed your grandparents with all that vaccine disinformation. We're cool, right?" RFK Jr. is courting Black voters, a group he once targeted with vaccine disinformation The independent presidential candidate produced a documentary-style film in 2021 that spread vaccine disinformation to the Black community. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/rfk-jr-black-voters-vaccine-disinformation-rcna139459