The Media Is Reckoning With How to Cover RFK Jr.’s Presidential Run - eviltoast
Democratic candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. gets his first national town hall with NewsNation, as the media grapples with another conspiratorial candidate. “There’s a difference between giving him a town hall and just covering his candidacy,” one network executive says.

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Democratic candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. gets his first national town hall with NewsNation, as the media grapples with another conspiratorial candidate. “There’s a difference between giving him a town hall and just covering his candidacy,” one network executive says.

  • ATGM 🚀@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Honestly, could we ignore him? He’s a fringe candidate with a near-zero chance of reaching nomination. What impact does he have on the race other than to act as a potential spoiler and distraction candidate?

  • infinitevalence@discuss.onlineEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I will be honest I’m out of the loop on this guy. Is he running left of Bernie and Jill Stine? Because that sure seems like a poor plan. The Democrats are not like the Republican primaries where they have to out extreme right until the general election.

    • TechyDad@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      1 year ago

      He’s an anti-vaxxer that echos a lot of Russian propaganda. He even tweeted an image of a woman wearing his campaign merchandise - and then people noticed that the sign on the cafe in the background was in Russian.

      If anything, he seems like a right-winger trying to pretend that he’s a liberal and hoping that people vote for him based on his famous family name.