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Kennedy Surges Despite Bias and Censorship
12 hours ago by Jeff Crouere, Ringside Politics

(Apr. 30, 2023) — The worst nightmare for an incumbent President is to receive a serious intra-party nomination challenge. In recent history, it has happened three times. In 1976, a conservative challenger, former California Governor Ronald Reagan, made a valiant attempt that almost succeeded in denying the GOP nomination for President Gerald Ford.

In 1980, U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) vigorously challenged President Jimmy Carter for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination. In 1992, conservative commentator Pat Buchanan offered Republican Party voters an alternative to moderate President George H. W. Bush. While none of these intra-party nomination challenges were successful, the incumbent Presidents were weakened and eventually lost the presidential race to their opponents in the general election.

In the upcoming 2024 election, a similar scenario is emerging in the Democratic Party. This week, incumbent President Joe Biden announced in a video that he is running for re-election. To say his announcement “landed with a thud” is an understatement. Biden is very unpopular with the American people. In a recent Gallup poll, only 37% of respondents approve of Biden’s performance, while an astounding 59% disapprove of his presidency. [Note: Jeff forgets to mention T****'s popularity.]

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Who can blame outraged Americans as they witness the destruction of our economy, border security, energy production, national security, and international standing? Couple these massive problems with the debacle of our withdrawal in Afghanistan, the mishandling of our involvement in the war in Ukraine, the woke transformation of our military and the building crime and drug crises in our cities, it is understandable that 70% of Americans do not want Biden to run for a second term as President.

With a weakened incumbent, two Democratic Party challengers have emerged: Marianne Williamson, author and spiritual guru, and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., an environmental attorney. Williamson ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination in 2020, while Kennedy is a member of one of the most iconic political families in American history.

The latest Fox News poll among Democratic primary voters shows Biden at only 62% support, while both of his challengers are gaining ground. The poll indicated that Kennedy registered 19% support, while Williamson was at 9%.

While Biden has a large margin, it is uncomfortable [Thanks for caring, Jeff.] that almost one-third of the Democratic Party primary electorate prefers another candidate. These problems are occurring even though Biden has received almost universal support and few, if any, hostile questions from the lapdog press.

The love fest at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner was the latest example of the media’s support of President Biden. At the dinner, he said, “Yeah, I know, I just announced my re-election campaign,” which generated huge applause from the liberal journalists. He joked, “In a lot of ways, this dinner sums up my first two years in office: I’ll talk for 10 minutes, take zero questions and cheerfully walk away.” As conservative CNN commentator Scott Jennings noted, this joke showed how Biden was “mocking” the media in attendance. Regarding the media, Jennings believed that Biden was “not laughing with you,” but “laughing at you.”





Clearly, the media will work overtime to support Biden and suppress the chances of Kennedy or Williamson. For example, on Thursday, ABC News blatantly censored Kennedy in an interview conducted by reporter Linsey Davis. ABC News obviously did not care for the claims that Kennedy was making about vaccines and the pharmaceutical industry. According to Kennedy, “47 USC 315 makes it illegal for TV networks to censor Presidential candidates but Thursday, ABC showed its contempt for the law, democracy, and its audience by cutting most of the content of my interview.”

The censorship involved Kennedy’s comments about the government’s actions during the COVID pandemic. He said he will be “happy to supply citations to support every statement I made” and lamented that “Instead of journalism, the public saw a hatchet job. Instead of information, they got defamation and unsheathed Pharma propaganda.” In his response to such blatant censorship, Kennedy asked, “How can democracy function without a free and unbiased press?” If elected President, Kennedy promised to “free FCC from its corporate captors and force the agency to follow the law by revoking the licenses of networks that put the mercantile ambitions of advertisers ahead of the public interest.”

Among other interesting comments Kennedy has recently made, he also voiced opposition to biological males competing against women in sports. In a CNN interview, Kennedy said, “I am against people participating in women’s sports who are biologically male. I think women have worked too hard to develop women’s sports over the past 30 years. I watched it happen, and I don’t think that’s fair.” With his stance against transgender males participating in women’s sports, COVID vaccines and the war in Ukraine, Kennedy is in direct opposition to Biden and the major leaders in the Democratic National Committee (DNC). Not surprisingly, the DNC canceled the 2024 presidential primary debates.

Also, the risk of Kennedy or Williamson outshining the mentally incompetent 80-year-old Biden is too great. In 2020, Biden “won” the election by employing a “basement strategy” and conducting few events or interviews. Obviously, he will employ a similar strategy in 2024. This pathetic scheme, supported by the DNC, will deprive Democratic primary voters of the opportunity of seeing how these challengers fare against Biden. Williamson tweeted that “Too many people are too smart to accept this.”

Kennedy claimed that the Democrats have “rigged the system.” He also noted that New Hampshire lost their status as “first in the nation primary” because “President Biden didn’t do well there; he came in fifth.” He blasted the DNC for the move which has happened at a time when there are “many Americans who are concerned about election integrity.”

Sadly, such corruption is nothing new for Democrats, who are experts at manipulating party nomination contests. For example, in 2016, without the DNC rigging it for her, Hillary Clinton would have lost the presidential nomination to U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT). The DNC is fixing it again for Biden to win the nomination in 2024.

Jeff Crouere is a native New Orleanian and his award-winning program, “Ringside Politics,” airs Saturdays from Noon until 1 p.m. CT nationally on Real America’s Voice TV

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s threat to Biden is inflated in polls. Here’s why.
Kennedy is pulling as much as 19 percent in early polls, leading Republicans to hope he’ll damage Biden
Analysis by Aaron Blake Staff writer April 27, 2023 at 5:43 p.m. EDT

The good news for President Biden’s just-launched 2024 reelection bid is that, for now, it doesn’t appear as though it will include a serious primary challenger. The bad news is that he’s ceding a significant and potentially embarrassing chunk of voters to an anti-vaccine activist. Multiple recent polls show Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pulling double-digit support in the primary, including a Fox News survey Wednesday that showed him at 19 percent.

That network has frequently covered Kennedy’s campaign and interviewed him more than once over the past week or so, as certain Republicans have made clear they see utility in elevating Kennedy to undercut Biden. How much might the candidacy actually undercut Biden? It’s probably worth not overselling the early polls, for a few reasons.

The National Review this week published an article suggesting that such a double-digit performance from Kennedy could prove costly for Biden. No incumbent president in the past 50 years has ceded that much of the vote to a primary challenger and won reelection, it noted. That’s technically true, but it ignores a whole lot of nuance.

The first point is that we’re talking about a small sample size. There have been only three such instances, all more than 30 years ago: Ronald Reagan’s 1976 challenge to Gerald Ford, Ted Kennedy’s 1980 challenge to Jimmy Carter, and Pat Buchanan’s 1992 challenge to George H.W. Bush.

Just to quell any speculation, UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES will I join Donald Trump on an electoral ticket.

RTH10260 wrote: ↑Wed May 10, 2023 4:54 pm I guess that would not exclude him from accepting a position in a potential impotus government

potential <20%

PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes wrote: RFK Jr. said chemicals in water are causing kids to turn transgender.

PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes wrote: In an uncovered video, RFK Jr. compared mask mandates to Nazi Holocaust camp experiments on Jews.

RFK Jr.: “They’re going to have the right to compel unwanted medical interventions on us. The Nazis did that in the camps in World War II. They tested vaccines on Gypsies and Jews.”

Volkonski wrote: ↑Mon Jun 19, 2023 8:58 pm Pretty sure that the government didn't force anyone to take the Covid vaccine.

Volkonski wrote: ↑Tue Jun 20, 2023 1:00 am "He who takes the King's shilling becomes the King's man."

According to ABC News, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suffers from "spasmodic dysphonia, a specific form of an involuntary movement disorder called dystonia that affects only the voice box." This is not a life-threatening illness but it can certainly affect one's quality of life.

Flatpoint High wrote: ↑Tue Jun 20, 2023 12:13 pm after the assassination of his father, jr became an addict. I seriously wonder how much the addiction(s) have played into the conspiracies

p0rtia wrote: ↑Tue Jun 20, 2023 1:52 pm

Flatpoint High wrote: ↑Tue Jun 20, 2023 12:13 pm after the assassination of his father, jr became an addict. I seriously wonder how much the addiction(s) have played into the conspiracies

I've been wondering that, too. I feel so awful about his descent into whatever it it. One hears anecdotally about how enough booze and heroin will break your brain. That was a long time ago, but...one wonders.

I had such a political crush on RFK Sr., and can still remember the night I lay in bed as a kid, sobbing, when the news of his death came. I was rooting for Jr to make good and save the world, and didn't understand how he could engage in substance abuse at that level--those were the days when we took such things as a measure of moral character.

Anyway, it makes me sad.

I’ve been doing my best to ignore the farcical presidential candidacy of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. His noxious views on vaccines, the origin of AIDS, the alleged dangers of wi-fi and other forms of junk science deserve no wide hearing. Polls showing he’s favored by 20 percent of likely Democratic voters over President Biden are almost as laughable as Kennedy’s views. It’s early; he’s got iconic American name recognition; and there’s almost always an appetite, among Democrats anyway, for anybody but the incumbent. His lies have been thoroughly debunked by Judd Legum at Popular Info, Michael Scherer in The Washington Post, Naomi Klein in The Guardian, and Brandy Zadrozny on NBC News.

LAST MONTH, SUPPORTERS of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential bid created a Super PAC titled Heal the Divide. On its website, the group — whose name is borrowed from Kennedy’s own campaign slogan — advises voters that “Only Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. can unite the Nation to start healing America,” and allows visitors to donate both in dollars and cryptocurrency.

There’s nothing abnormal about a candidate getting a Super PAC, even a candidate making a long-shot bid like Kennedy’s. What is abnormal, however, is that Kennedy is running as a Democrat in the Democratic primary, while the creators of the Super PAC have a deeply pro-Donald Trump bent — including ties to arch-MAGA officials such as Marjorie Taylor Greene, George Santos, and Herschel Walker.

Federal Election Commission filings list Jason D. Boles of RTA Strategy as its treasurer and use RTA’s website and mailing address. In 2022, Greene’s campaign and leadership PAC, Save America Stop Socialism, paid the firm more than $372,000 for work on her 2022 congressional race, according to data compiled by OpenSecrets.

The Georgia-based RTA, founded by political consultant Rick Thompson, also worked for Walker in his failed 2022 Senate race in Georgia. Thompson served as custodian for Walker’s campaign committee and Boles worked as treasurer of the committee, earning the firm roughly $50,000, according to campaign-finance records. More recently, Boles and Thompson have signed on as treasurer and designated agent, respectively, for the embattled Santos after the indicted congressman struggled to find personnel to handle his campaign finances.

Reached by phone, Thompson declined to comment on the Kennedy Super PAC. “We have a strict policy at our firm that we don’t discuss our clients,” he tells Rolling Stone. And the Heal the Divide site does not advertise its Republican backing. But a mistake on the group’s website gives away its origins: The site’s terms of service appear to have been copied and pasted from MAGA PAC, a Trump Super PAC, and incorrectly refers to the Heal the Divide site as MAGApac.com.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr @RobertKennedyJr wrote: Getting in shape for my debates with President Biden!