By Ari Blaff. Media: National Review.
Twitter founder Jack Dorsey has thrown his support behind Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s 2024 Democratic primary challenge to President Joe Biden.
Commenting on an interview in which Kennedy argues that he is the best positioned Democrat to beat the likely 2024 GOP nominee in a general election, be it former president Trump or Florida governor Ron DeSantis, Dorsey wrote, “He can and will.”
He can and will https://t.co/zrKLc2BKhz
— jack (@jack) June 4, 2023
Asked by one user whether Dorsey was endorsing or “just predicting” Kennedy’s electoral potential, he responded: “Both.”
Asked whether the Democratic National Committee would ever permit the Kennedy scion to lead the party, Dorsey doubled down: “Even more reason.” The DNC seems “to be more irrelevant by the day,” he added.
Kennedy filed his statement of candidacy with the Federal Elections Commission in early April, nearly a month after publicly teasing the idea of entering the race.
“If I run, my top priority will be to end the corrupt merger between state and corporate power that has ruined our economy, shattered the middle class, polluted our landscapes and waters, poisoned our children, and robbed us of our values and freedoms,” he tweeted in mid March.
Kennedy captured nearly 20 percent of likely Democratic primary voters in a recent CNN poll, with President Biden garnering another 60 percent.
After years spent attacking the pharmaceutical industry with widely disputed claims about the links between vaccines and increasing rates of childhood autism, Kennedy’s popularity surged during Covid as he took to criticizing America’s medical establishment as a tool of authoritarian control. In 2021, he published the book, The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health, accusing the nation’s leading public-health official of “a historic coup d’etat against Western democracy.”
“Suddenly, those trusted institutions seemed to be acting in concert to generate fear, promote obedience, discourage critical thinking, and herd seven billion people to march to a single tune culminating in mass public health experiments with a novel, shoddily tested and improperly licensed technology so risky that manufacturers refused to produce it unless every government on Earth shielded them from liability,” he argued in another section.
Such views often put him at odds with the rest of the illustrious American family. His sister, Kerry Kennedy, the chief executive of the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights organization, in memory of their father, called her brother’s views “completely wrong on this issue and very dangerous.”
His presidential announcement reportedly won him the applause of Steve Bannon, Trump’s former chief strategist.
“Bobby Kennedy would be, I think, an excellent choice for President Trump to consider” as a vice presidential running mate, Bannon argued on his War Room show in late April.
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