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THE NEXT US election is still months away, but it can feel at times as if the campaign is already in full swing.
Joe Biden looks set to run again, Donald Trump is confident of his chances despite a slew of lawsuits, and Ron DeSantis is attempting to make his claim to lead the Republicans into the election.
One candidate has eked out a unique space for himself: Robert F Kennedy Jr, son of Robert F Kennedy who was assassinated in 1968 during his own presidential campaign, and part of the wider Kennedy dynasty.
A one-time environmental lawyer, his focus has turned to issues like vaccine skeptism and migration, in a tone that at times is more similar to a MAGA Republican candidate than a Democrat.
This week on The Explainer, we speak with the Business Post’s US correspondent Marion McKeone to delve into Kennedy Jr’s campaign so far. What are his rallies like, and what is he like as a person?
Is he in with a chance of becoming US president, or are we simply looking at Trump vs Biden in 2024?
https://soundcloud.com/the-explainer-podcast/the-explainer-who-is-robert-f-kennedy-jr-and-could-he-be-the-next-us-president
This episode was put together by presenter Christine Bohan, senior producer Nicky Ryan and executive producer Sinéad O’Carroll.
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Surprisingly you didn’t use anti-vaxxer in the description. I guess its not an insult anymore right? Imagine a world where people are so brainwashed by the media that to choose not to take a vaccine becomes an insult or something to be ashamed of. Incredible really
@The ghost of Ireland’s past: You can be anti-vaxx for any number of reasons and his are the worst. Kennedy Jr. was caught on camera telling fellow diners that “Covid-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people” and “the people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese.” For years, he’s been claiming that vaccines (in general) cause autism.
@The ghost of Ireland’s past:
Well said.
@The ghost of Ireland’s past: He’s gone total pro israel so he’s grand now?? He’ll make vaccines cooler and safer not that I’ll be on for them ever and end the WW3 flashpoint in Russia/theUkraine.
If he is anti war they won’t let him
Usual suspects with ad hominem comments. Why not state you reason for not liking him as a candidate. Everybody might learn something and, God forbid, agree or find some common ground.
@Oh Mammy: Here is a video of him making a racist claim that the SARS-COV-2 virus was an “ethnically targeted” bioweapon designed to kill white and black people but spare Chinese and Ashkenazi Jews.
He is against the war in Ukraine
He wants to dismember the CIA
and like all before him he is pro Israel. The sooner the zionist lobby is destroyed, the sooner USA can welcome in some semblance of a democracy.
That said he has to be better than the current shower of warmongers.
A Trump for prez/RFK for VP dream ticket?
Who knows; after all the wokeratti told us Trump would never be president and the Brits would never vote for Brexit and look how that turned out.
@WokeGenderfluidLiberalKnowsItAll: Look how that turned out: Terrible for the USA, terrible for the UK, regardless of what ‘the wokeratti’ predicted, they were correct on the outcomes of both.
@John John: The UK seems to be doing fine. I remember the leftie brigade telling the Brits there would be no Pizza after Brexit lol
Whoever he is, he should wear a helmet at all times
He should run as an Independent, and stay away from the warmongering Democrats.
He is as mad as a box of badgers and the fact that some of the regular posters of the aluminium fedora persuasion on here will come out to his defence should tell all the sane people what they need to know …
He’s preferable to Trump,Biden,Harris,De Santis etc. A ticket with Tulsi Gabbard would be great. Anti war mongering neocons.
I do not know why but I am excluded replying to comments. Difficult to have a discussion. Sorry
@Oh Mammy: If you’re going to try and defend RFKs thoughts then it’s robably just as well.
Vunderbar
Wonderfully written article.
Caught the real essence of the man.
I applaud you
I clap, therefore i am.
Robert F Kennedy Jr is a conspiratorial nut job. The End.
@John John: Considering his father and uncle were murdered by alphabet agents , hardly surprising.
There is not a snowball in hell’s chance that the DNC will allow him to be the Democrat candidate in 2024 . If it is not Biden ( as he may be forced to resign ) it will be Harris unless she is persuaded to step aside in favour of someone else ( Gavin Newsom ?).
Irish people just do not want to own up to their colonial history ; neither as part of the British empire, nor as Americans. Sure, oppression famine etc. As most of the peasents in Europe.
Herded off to America Australia etc. etc.. And had no bother annihilating the natives.
@Wokegenderfluidblahblahblah: If you take London out of the equation, the UK is poorer per capita than Mississippi … leave London in and it’s marginally better.
Wombleman: You know what I was going to say? Read my initial tpost and perhaps start on the road to learning. Smarm is uneducated.
That’s exactly what I was thinking. Who is he apart from being a Kennedy ?
Some people make comments about him here and that’s as much as I know ..
One word. Ivermectin.
ANSWERS: A crank, and no.
@Chris O’Brien: An more legendary Irishman for POTUS, as Biden’s ancestors ran a workhouse
Ah
20-1 best price, hard to see him becoming president.
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