{"id":208,"date":"2023-10-25T02:06:13","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T02:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/LeFachicette\/?p=208"},"modified":"2023-10-25T02:06:13","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T02:06:13","slug":"rfk-jr-s-campaign-coffer-is-getting-stuffed-to-the-brim-by-gop-donors-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/LeFachicette\/rfk-jr-s-campaign-coffer-is-getting-stuffed-to-the-brim-by-gop-donors-report\/","title":{"rendered":"RFK Jr.\u2019s Campaign Coffer Is Getting Stuffed to the Brim by GOP Donors: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-1024x682.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1913\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>obert F. Kennedy Jr.<\/strong>\u00a0might be a long shot candidate in the Democratic primary, but his campaign coffer is hardly strapped for cash. Popular Information\u00a0reports\u00a0that a collection of wealthy Republican donors\u2014including\u00a0<strong>Mark Dickson<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Keith Sheldon<\/strong>\u2014are now bankrolling the hopeful, whose support among likely primary voters has\u00a0hovered\u00a0in the low double digits, making him the most likely Democratic disruptor for\u00a0<strong>Joe Biden<\/strong>\u2019s reelection bid.Dickson and Sheldon\u2014who are most notably Trump donors and have never previously given to a Democrat\u2014both donated the legal maximum of $6,600. And they aren\u2019t outliers: Of the 96 donors to contribute the maximum to Kennedy from the start of his campaign in April through the month of June, 37 donated exclusively to Republican candidates in prior federal races. (Popular Information also found that only 19 of those 96 donors steadily backed Democrats in the past.)One Kennedy-aligned super PAC, American Values 2024, has gotten the same treatment, with approximately half of the $10.25 million it has raised this year coming from Republicans. Kennedy also shares a few wealthy donors with Florida governor and Republican presidential candidate\u00a0<strong>Ron DeSantis,<\/strong>\u00a0including\u00a0<strong>David Sacks,<\/strong>\u00a0a venture capitalist who has publicly supported DeSantis and whose PAC donated $6,600 to the Democrat; Sacks has also hosted separate fundraisers for both Kennedy and the Florida governor,\u00a0according\u00a0to Axios. Meanwhile,\u00a0<strong>Omeed Malik,<\/strong>\u00a0an ex-Democrat and former Bank of America executive, and\u00a0<strong>Joe Voboril,<\/strong>\u00a0one of Malik\u2019s business partners, have also contributed to both Kennedy and DeSantis.Why has this mass of Republican support emerged around Kennedy, who is\u2014again\u2014a Democrat? A lot of it likely has to do with COVID-19: Kennedy is an outspoken anti-vaxxer whose medical conspiracy theories are far more popular among conservatives than among Democrats. He previously compared Dr.\u00a0<strong>Anthony Fauci<\/strong>\u00a0to Hitler and later\u00a0argued\u00a0that COVID-19 mandates were creating an environment that was more oppressive than that of the Holocaust. More recently, he\u2019s dabbled in COVID-19 race science. \u201cThere is an argument that [COVID-19] is ethnically targeted,\u201d he\u00a0said at a press dinner\u00a0last week, per the\u00a0<em>New York Post.<\/em>\u00a0\u201cCOVID-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese\u2026. We don\u2019t know whether it was deliberately targeted or not.\u201dShared ideology aside, Kennedy could also be a useful asset for Republicans vying to obstruct a clean and easy nomination process for Biden. Ahead of Kennedy\u2019s official campaign launch, CBS News\u2019\u00a0<strong>Robert Costa<\/strong>\u00a0reported\u00a0that Trump ally\u00a0<strong>Steve Bannon<\/strong>\u00a0had spent months urging Kennedy to challenge Biden, hoping to turn the Democratic primary upside down. (Kennedy has\u00a0denied\u00a0the framing of that report.)\u00a0<strong>Donald Trump,<\/strong>\u00a0meanwhile, has called on Kennedy to stand strong in the Democratic primary,\u00a0describing\u00a0him as a \u201cvery smart\u2026commonsense guy.\u201dThat sentiment has only spread among conservative pundits and lawmakers of late: \u201cStop the Steal\u201d organizer\u00a0<strong>Ali Alexander<\/strong>said\u00a0earlier this month that he is \u201cthinking about voting in the Democrat primary for RFK Jr.\u201d And former Fox News host\u00a0<strong>Tucker Carlson<\/strong>hailed\u00a0Kennedy last month for asking important questions, saying he is facing more attacks from the press than any other presidential candidate in historyCategories<a href=\"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/category\/conservative-in-history\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>obert F. 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