ABOUT ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR
Kennedy is leading Democrats back to their roots. His commitment to free speech, peace, safeguarding our environment, economic recovery and healing the divide in our nation are the same principals his father and uncle stood for.
The more people hear Kennedy the more they like what they hear and think he’s the man for the moment. The fundraising reflects it. A lot more Americans are getting excited about the campaign.
Mr. Kennedy has support that reaches across the political spectrum. He embraces the totality of America. Americans don’t want a President of a party they want a President of the nation.
Americans want someone who can heal the divide, they want unity, and they are tired of polarization. They want someone who can stand up to special interests and most of all they want a truth-teller.
Kennedy represents a reconnection with basic American values that unify all of us and people want that. The feeling that people get about the campaign is contagious.
On What this Campaign is About
This campaign is about protecting our environment, about safeguarding our children from toxic chemicals and drugs, about healing the divide that is preventing us from unified action in defense of our country and our values, about winding down the war machine, and about unraveling the corrupt corporate control of our government.
It’s not just about how much money the campaign raises. It’s about how many individuals are behind this movement. We need to show our strength by demonstrating that we have a lot of support from all over the country. That is how we send a message to anyone who stands in the way of real democracy that we’re serious about taking our country back.
The campaign is growing fast and there is a buzz in the air. Kennedy is running against the elites and the more people learn about Bobby the more excited they get.
The establishment elites and insiders in DC are terrified. It’s been funny to witness the amount of hit pieces that come out daily smearing him. They are petrified to give Kennedy a voice or share a stage with Biden.
RFK JR. RUNNING AS AN INDEPENDENT
This campaign is a movement built for and by the people, not corrupt politicians, and corporations. And you can see it from town to town across the country - there is a real electricity and desire for change that you can feel.
One thing is clear; what RFK Jr. is tapping into is a populist movement that unites left and right, black, and white, rural, and urban, and young and old. Bobby Kennedy will unite the country and fight for the people, not partisanship.
Our latest polling has Bobby entering the race as a hypothetical independent candidate with the highest polling numbers in modern history. He enters with 19% of the vote and the highest likability of any candidate running. These numbers are staggering considering the most intense smear campaign ever waged against a candidate. Our polling shows that Bobby pulls equally from Trump and Biden.
Bobby will fight to end corruption and take power and money away from the corporate interests and return it to the people. The DNC is made up of power brokers who make secret decisions in secret meetings, and they don’t play by the rules.
The DNC has totally rigged the system and made it impossible for an outsider, insurgent candidate like Bobby to win. If the rules don’t work for Biden, their chosen candidate, they change those rules.
ADDITIONAL TALKING POINTS
People want affordable housing. They want someone to solve the problem of opioid and fentanyl addiction. They want to keep money in America instead of sending it to endless wars in places like Ukraine. They want lower gas prices, a strong middle class, lower grocery prices, and lower interest rates. They want someone to fight for them. And that’s why they like RFK Jr.
Folks get it - they understand that we can't just wait around for the DC insiders to change their minds and suddenly decide to fix our problems. Wall Street executives aren’t going to stop ripping off the little guy just because they have a change of heart, just like Big Tech companies, like Twitter and Facebook, aren’t going to suddenly stop censoring.
All of America’s most serious problems come from big corporate interests and corrupt politicians who do their bidding. Together, they are killing our democracy, and the people rising up against them can rescue our nation.
We all must take these freedoms back - it’s up to the people. People have the power.
21 TALKING POINTS (consolidated)
1. Robert Kennedy Jr Running as An Independent
• This campaign is a movement built for and by the people, not corrupt politicians and corporations. And you can see it from town to town across the country - there is a real electricity and desire for change that you can feel.
• Bobby Kennedy will unite the country and fight for the people, not partisanship.
• Our latest polling has Bobby entering the race as a hypothetical independent candidate with the highest polling numbers in modern history. He enters with 19% of the vote and the highest likability of any candidate running.
• These numbers are staggering considering the most intense smear campaign ever waged against a candidate.
• Bobby will fight to end corruption and take power and money away from the corporate interests and return it to the people.
• Our polling shows that Bobby pulls equally from Trump and Biden.
• Bobby will fight to end corruption and take power and money away from the corporate interests and return it to the people.
• The DNC is made up of power-brokers who make secret decisions in secret meetings, and they don’t play by the rules.
• The DNC has totally rigged the system and made it impossible for an outsider, insurgent candidate like Bobby to win. If the rules don’t work for Biden, their chosen candidate, they change those rules.
2. Robert Kennedy Jr Positioning
People want affordable housing. They want someone to solve the problem of opioid and fentanyl addiction. They want to keep money in America instead of sending it to endless wars in places like Ukraine. They want lower gas prices, a strong middle class, lower grocery prices, and lower interest rates. They want someone to fight for them. And that’s why they like RFK Jr.
All of America’s most serious problems come from big corporate interests and corrupt politicians who do their bidding. Together, they are killing our democracy, and the people rising up against them can rescue our nation.
One thing is clear; what RFK Jr. is tapping into is a populist movement that unites left and right, black, and white, rural, and urban, and young and old.
Folks get it - they understand that we can't just wait around for the DC insiders to change their minds and suddenly decide to fix our problems.
Wall Street executives aren’t going to stop ripping off the little guy just because they have a change of heart, just like Big Tech companies, like Twitter and Facebook, aren’t going to suddenly stop censoring.
We all must take these freedoms back - it’s up to the people. People have the power.
3. WHy Kennedy?
• Kennedy’s commitment to free speech, peace, safeguarding our environment, economic recovery and healing the divide in our nation are the same principals his father and uncle stood for.
• The more people hear Kennedy the more they like what they hear and think he’s the man for the moment. The fundraising reflects it. A lot more Americans are getting excited about the campaign.
• Mr. Kennedy has support that reaches across the political spectrum. He embraces the totality of America. Americans don’t want a President of a party they want a President of the nation.
• Americans want someone who can heal the divide, they want unity, and they are tired of polarization. They want someone who can stand up to special interests and most of all they want a truth-teller.
• Kennedy represents a reconnection with basic American values that unify all of us and people want that. The feeling that people get about the campaign is contagious.
• This campaign is about the heart and spirit of America - that’s why people are getting excited - its sweeping Americans up into this cause that’s bigger than us.
• He’s unifying Americans and he’s causing us to believe that the country can be so much greater than it is and that our leaders can be so much better - they can be truth-tellers they can be authentic and people we can trust.
4. On Open Debates
• The United States is spending $Billions of dollars around the world and in places like Ukraine to “spread democracy” yet when it comes to our own Presidential elections, the elites at the DNC are silencing candidates.
• Voters right now have a thirst for authenticity and substantive discussion around big issues like the economy, war, and peace. We saw that at the Town Hall Kennedy just participated in. The idea that elites at the DNC would limit voters’ opportunity and right to hear from all candidates is the antithesis of democracy.
5. On Energy
• Our energy policy should be based on free markets and not top-down control.
• We must end subsidies and allow the marketplace to determine.
• What’s going to happen is renewable energy is going to triumph. Once you build wind or solar its free energy forever, so it is always going to be cheaper. The problem is we do not have a transportation system to get them to market. We need a marketplace and a grid system that can allow every individual to become an energy entrepreneur.
6. On the Democratic Party
• The Democrats got derailed and suddenly became the party of war, when in the past, Democrats were always skeptical of the military industrial complex.
• Democrats have always been skeptical of censorship which is abhorrent to every definition of liberalism.
• The party has been taken over by neocons which were always Republicans, and they govern by fear.
7. On Censorship
• I’m taken back to Robert F Kennedy Jr’s announcement when he said, ‘This is what happens when you censor someone for 18 years,’ and while funny at the time, censorship is a critical issue.
• Censorship is profoundly ant-democratic and an enabling tool of corruption.
• One of the key facts we learned from the Twitter Files is that we now have clear evidence that White House staff asked the big social media sites to censor him which is a clear 1st amendment violation
• The networks all censor him. Why? They censor Kennedy because he often dissents from this government’s policies and when he does, he does so with does with facts.
• When anyone challenges the powerful with facts, the powerful get scared and the easiest thing to do is to censor that person - to silence them. And that’s why we built this country to not only allow dissent but celebrate dissent.
• It’s one thing to censor a book, it’s another thing to censor a political candidate because it makes it appear that we don’t like democracy.
8. On Lockdowns
• Lockdowns are counter to all standard protocols by every international agency.
• The censorship that came from opposing the lockdowns was anti-American.
• Lockdowns represented the largest transfer of wealth in the history of mankind
• Lockdowns were the worst weapon ever deployed in the war against the working class
9. On War in Ukraine
• Sold to the American public with the same kind of comic book depictions that the Iraq war was sold to us from both political parties.
• The same neocons we thought had been run out of town after the Iraq war disaster were suddenly flooding the White House.
• It’s clear that Russia did not want this war. Russia’s been invaded three times through the Ukraine. The one request Russia has made is that the US promise to not expand NATO. We helped overthrow the Ukraine government and installing our own weapons.
10. On Being from a Famous Family-Is it Really Good for Democracy
• He’s focused on the things he can change like trying to force America to live up to its highest ideals.
11. On the Veracity of Russiagate
• In 2020, when people started criticizing the methodology being used around the COVID vaccines, anyone dissenting started to be called a Russian asset - that’s when he really started to take a second look at “Russiagate” and realized it was all connected. And then the Durham report made me realize the entire thing was fabricated.
• Russiagate was a runway to the Ukraine War.
12 .On the Deleted Rodger Waters Tweet and Israel
• He didn’t want to leave any impression that I agreed with Rodger on Israel, but he admires him for his positions on the Ukraine War and Julian Assange.
13. On China
• It’s clear that China does not want to compete with us militarily. We need to de-escalate the tensions - let’s compete with China economically that’s friendly and congenially.
• Strategic ambiguity is the best position for the United States.
• The same neocons in the White House and the State Department that want war in Ukraine want war in China. A China war would be the end of the world.
• People stuck in a war mentality create enemies where there could have been peaceful competition. War with China would be a calamity for the whole planet. It only becomes inevitable if people like the senators in this article keep pushing it
14. On China/Taiwan
• We should let China and Taiwan handle their dispute on their own.
15. On Guns
• RFK supports the 2nd amendment and the entire US Constitution - "I'm not going to take people's guns away"
• He doesn't see any way to lessen gun ownership within the confines of the 2nd amendment especially in light of the most recent Supreme Court ruling
• We have never seen a time in history where children were being indiscriminately killed in schools
• We need to look at other causes of violence including division among Americans, distrust of government, different pharmaceuticals such as SSRIs, video games, and other areas
• Not everyone on SSRIs goes insane and kills people, but not everyone who smokes gets cancer
• NIH should be studying what happened to make school shootings a novel reality in modern America
16. On Addiction / Recovery Plan for America
• Legalize Cannabis on the federal level
• Tax it to fund a national recovery program
• Build recovery programs in rural America
• Incorporate organic farming into programs
• Tackle addiction and rural revitalization at the same time
17. On Working Class Economic Issues
• Raise minimum wage to $15 an hour
• Close loopholes and tighten enforcement against illegal corporate union busting
• Increase government assistance programs like food stamps
• Fund increase with savings from supporting the war in Ukraine
• LOOKS LIKE Bobby supports universal free school lunch (though not stated directly, this tweet seems to indicate that - https://twitter.com/RobertKennedyJr/status/1684268900534435840?s=20
18. On Mass Incarceration
• Important Issue for Black community def in South Carolina - “opportunity zones Sen. Tim Scott has 1st Step Act federal law
19. On Urban Renewal Policy
• Bobby is a huge supporter of Black Ownership / Black Owned Businesses (BOBs)
• Urban revitalization needs to be supported with robust programs of loans and grants
• Create Mentorship Programs, micro-loan programs, Opportunity Districts where outsiders can invest in BOB startups
20. On Qualified Immunity (Police Immunity)
• NEED TO SOURCE - Kennedy has tweeted that he wants to end qualified immunity. Many in the Black community support Kennedy on this position, Police officers are against Kennedy on this position
21. On African American Appeal
• Reparations
• Increasing Black-owned businesses by 500 percent, loan and grant access, mentoring programs with Congress approval
• Job opportunities
• Health inequities
• Combat White supremacy
• Voter rights
• Police Reform
• Student Loan Relief