Democrats are “freaking out” about the possibility of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. taking votes away from Joe Biden and ultimately helping Trump win the 2024 election, according to a new report from NBC News.
Democrats are terrified of a repeat of the 2016 election, when Green Party candidate Jill Stein took votes away from Hillary Clinton in states like Wisconsin.
Isn’t this simply democracy? Democrats don’t care about democracy? This is what they have been telling the country for five or more years now.
From NBC News:
“Crazy” Democrats mobilize to prevent RFK Jr. from influencing Biden
In the fall of 2016, a Hillary Clinton staffer stationed in the Upper Midwest received a call from campaign headquarters in Brooklyn telling him to delete a joke he had tweeted about then-Green Party candidate Jill Stein …
This year, however, Democrats have adopted a radically different strategy toward independent and third-party candidates. They are waging open war against the likes of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who they view as a mortal threat to President Joe Biden’s re-election.
There are brand new super PACs – plural – dedicated to crushing third-party candidates. Democratic National Committee mobile billboards troll Kennedy at events. And party donors are funding legal efforts to try to keep him off the ballot…
“Everyone thinks this will be decided on the head of a pin, so people are scared like never before,” said one senior Democrat, who was granted anonymity to speak openly.
Democrats are increasingly alarmed by Kennedy’s strength in the polls, especially since he named Silicon Valley philanthropist Nicole Shanahan as his running mate. Not only did she manage to fund the cash-strapped campaign, but her selection of her and the way the campaign presented her signaled that Kennedy is positioning himself further to the left in the 2024 campaign.
RFK recently appeared on Jesse Watters’ show and commented on what the Democrats are doing.
RFK Jr. on Democrats’ plan to ‘take’ his name off the ballot: ‘The Democratic Party is doing everything they can to disenfranchise people and make sure people can’t vote for who they want’
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It’s almost as if Democrats don’t actually care about democracy. Almost.