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(The Hill) — Republican strategist Scott Jennings advised former President Trump to beryllium cautious present that helium has seemingly joined forces with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., arguing the autarkic statesmanlike campaigner is “kind of a looney tune.”
CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer asked Jennings Friday if Kennedy’s endorsement could “end up backfiring" connected the erstwhile president, considering the biology lawyer’s arguable views connected vaccines and clasp of immoderate conspiracy theories.
The elder CNN pundit responded that portion helium thinks astir of Kennedy’s supporters volition extremity up backing Trump successful November, determination could beryllium antagonistic strings attached.
“There could beryllium immoderate outgo connected the different broadside of the algebra,” Jennings said. “I mean, I'm aged capable to retrieve erstwhile RFK was a liberal, you know, conspiracy theorist. Now he's much of a blimpish conspiracy theorist, but the done enactment is, he's a conspiracy theorist, and a batch of radical deliberation he's benignant of a looney tune.”
“So, I would conscionable caution the erstwhile president to beryllium a small cautious here,” helium continued successful the interrogation connected CNN's "The Situation Room," highlighted by Mediaite. “Don't marque immoderate promises, you can't get retired of due to the fact that this guy, implicit the people of his career, has been a, you know, a small bit, truthful conscionable careful.”
Kennedy initially ran for the White House arsenic a Democrat. In October, helium near the enactment to run arsenic an independent.
After seeing his canvass numbers dip from debased double-digits, helium announced successful Arizona that helium would suspend his campaign and endorse Trump. Hours later, helium joined the erstwhile president astatine his run rally extracurricular Phoenix, with Trump saying helium volition person a “huge power connected this campaign.”
Kennedy said helium would region his sanction from ballots successful cardinal swing-states to not extremity up being the difference-maker successful the predetermination but would inactive vie successful astir bluish and reddish states.
Democrats person often gone aft the long-shot candidate, arguing helium was a fringe contender much intimately aligned with Republicans. In effect to the quality that Kennedy would backmost the GOP nominee, Vice President Harris's run did not straight notation the independent, but alternatively offered a caller imaginativeness for the country.
“For immoderate American retired determination who is bushed of Donald Trump and looking for a caller mode forward, ours is simply a run for you,” Harris run Chair Jen O’Malley Dillon said successful a statement. “In bid to present for moving radical and those who consciousness near behind, we request a person who volition combat for you, not conscionable for themselves, and bring america together, not teardrop america apart. Vice President Harris wants to gain your support.”
Trump's campaign, however, heralded the decision. The squad released a memo from its pollster, Tony Fabrizio, positing that the erstwhile president would summation the bulk of Kennedy’s supporters successful a head-to-head contention against Harris.
