{"id":849,"date":"2024-03-28T07:32:21","date_gmt":"2024-03-28T07:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/LeFachicette\/?p=849"},"modified":"2024-03-28T07:35:03","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T07:35:03","slug":"biden-builds-machine-to-attack-rfk-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/LeFachicette\/biden-builds-machine-to-attack-rfk-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden builds machine to attack RFK Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>w<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Biden&#8217;s team is so worried about&nbsp;Robert F. Kennedy Jr.&#8217;s potential impact on the election that it&#8217;s built an entire operation dedicated to attacking Kennedy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Former President Trump&#8217;s campaign also figures that Kennedy is more likely to pick off votes from Biden than Trump \u2014 so it&#8217;s content to watch and wait.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Why it matters:&nbsp;<\/strong>Those contrasting approaches are coming into focus as RFK Jr. \u2014 who&#8217;s&nbsp;polling better&nbsp;than any independent candidate since Ross Perot in 1992 \u2014 faces increasing scrutiny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>w<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>This time, Kennedy threatens the Biden campaign&#8217;s premise that the election is a choice between Biden&#8217;s stability and Trump&#8217;s chaos and divisiveness.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>So Biden&#8217;s campaign and the Democratic National Committee have dedicated a team of staffers and consultants to try to diminish Kennedy.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p> businessman Tim Mellon \u2014 with the former president. Mellon has given $20 million to Kennedy&#8217;s super PAC and $15 million to Trump&#8217;s MAGA Inc. this election cycle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Kennedy is officially on the ballot in just one state now \u2014 Utah. His campaign&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kennedy24.com\/ballot-access\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">claims it has enough signatures<\/a>&nbsp;in New Hampshire, Nevada and Hawaii to get on those states&#8217; ballots.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/politico-nightly\/2024\/03\/21\/rfk-jr-and-the-ballot-access-wars-00148478\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">American Values 2024 says<\/a>&nbsp;it has collected enough signatures to get him on ballots in other key states, including Michigan, Arizona and Georgia.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Driving the news:&nbsp;<\/strong>Kennedy aims to announce his running mate on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>His team has floated NFL quarterback Aaron Rodgers and former wrestler\/Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura as possibilities, but recent speculation has focused on Nicole Shanahan,<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>a tech financier and major donor to his PAC.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>w President Biden&rsquo;s team is so worried about&nbsp;Robert F. Kennedy Jr.&rsquo;s potential impact on the election [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/LeFachicette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/LeFachicette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/LeFachicette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/LeFachicette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/LeFachicette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=849"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/LeFachicette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":851,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/LeFachicette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions\/851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/LeFachicette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/LeFachicette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/LeFachicette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}