Sunday, September 24, 2023

What's up with Bobby Kennedy Jr?

ASuper PAC called Heal the Divide that was launched to support Democratic 2024 presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. reportedly appears to have ties with top MAGA Republicans.

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Creators of the Super PAC, however, appear to be connected to conservative Republican Representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and George Santos of New York as well as former Georgia GOP Senate candidate Herschel Walker, Rolling Stone reported on Friday, citing data compiled by OpenSecrets, a nonprofit that tracks campaign financing and lobbying.

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Kennedy Jr. has often been on the same page with some conservatives and Republicans when it came to certain issues such as the COVID-19 pandemic. He has become well-known for being outspoken against COVID-19 restrictions and opposed the COVID vaccine. He released a book in 2021 titled, The Real Anthony Fauci, in which he claimed that the country's top infectious disease doctor is assisting in a "historic coup d'etat against Western democracy" and touted unfounded COVID-19 treatments such as ivermectin, which is meant to treat parasites, according to the Associated Press.

The Democratic presidential candidate has been praised by several MAGA conservatives, including Steve Bannon, who served as the White House strategist during the Trump administration.

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Other conservatives backing Kennedy Jr. include right-wing group Moms For Liberty that announced on Wednesday that he would be invited as a guest speaker at the group's 2023 Joyful Warriors National Summit later this month [June 2023]. He is expected to appear alongside Republican presidential candidates Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley, Vivek Ramaswamy and Trump.

  Newsweek

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