Iowa: Bird flu is running rampant in our state, please only drink pasteurized milk
The MAGA Jr. campaign: Raw milk for everyone!
I think we’ve seen the “let’s kill all of our supporters” strategy before.
Didn’t work. Only killed some of them.
If at first you don’t succeed…
If we are diligent in our efforts in furtherance of the darwinization of those who cry, “Don’t listen to the experts!” the world will probably become a better place. (Not that much effort is needed.)
Could make a difference in swing states.
Nah.
Of those who said they support Kennedy more did not vote last time than the total of those who voted for either Trump or Biden. And that is split pretty evenly. The questions that would be telling if accurately answered are correlating confidence of intention to vote with whom, and of those with high intention to vote and planning to vote RFK how or if they’d vote if he was not in the race.
No data so just a WAG - low confidence that most of these people were ever going vote in this election and pretty little net impact of those who do.
From CNN.com:
I cannot see Kennedy meeting requirements for a first debate invite. The implication of the above is that he unverified claims, of having turned in enough signatures to be on a ballot, will not be accepted.
Can he purchase advertising during the debate?
Wait - since when are debates held before the conventions? Aren’t they usually in the fall?
This’ll be the first time we’ve had a debate this early in the year, yes. The Commission for Presidential Debates usually schedules three in September and October, a few weeks apart, but Biden and Trump agreed to this debate on their own outside the Commission.
Perhaps both are hoping to put a stake through RFK’s campaign’s heart.
And their only real opponent’s chances too, but that’s lots less likely to be doable…
As I mentioned in the debate thread I don’t understand it myself. With it being this early I don’t see a benefit for either candidate but I see a lot of downsides.
More time for damage control afterwards. But it still seems stoopid to me.
Oh, if Donnie goes off the rails and Joe mops the floor with him, I want America to see that as soon as possible.
If that happens, the MAGA folks would say that it wasn’t Joe, but a Joe-robot, just like Superman had Superman-robots who could step in when he was suffering from Kryptonite poisoning.
Joebot!
Short version: Trump actually believes his own lies about Biden being a shambling husk of a man who can’t string two sentences together and talks to people who aren’t there, so he challenged Biden to a debate “anywhere, anytime” expecting that Biden’s handlers would refuse on his behalf and prove how feeble he is. Biden, of course, is no such thing, and called Trump’s bluff by setting a date and time which Trump then had no way to back out of without looking like an idiot.
Joebot for President!
He had failed to qualify for the CNN debate
Trump had been blustering about wanting to hurry and debate NOW, being already the known candidates, and one fine day the President said “hey, sure, let’s go”; CNN quickly whipped out a formal proposal and Biden said “I’ll take that — over to you, Donald”.