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This election seems to have at least one recurring theme: couches....The question is, will Kennedy voters feel inclined to vote for Trump on election day or will their fringe dissatisfaction keep them on thier couches come November?
The polling numbers suggest that RFK Jr was benefiting from the "double-hater" phenomenon- that there was a small number of voters who didn't like Biden and didn't like Trump and were looking for an alternative. When the change to Harris happened, Kennedy dropped from 10% to 5% in the polls. All the crazy news stories haven't helped and it also suggests some of the RFK Jr supporters didn't really know RFK Jr.

RFK Jr is another man who can't stand it when his name isn't in the news. The rumors are, yes, he's angling to be Secretary of Health & Human Services, a job that is wholly unqualified for. But lack of qualification is exactly the qualifications that the Trump campaign finds desirable. Something tells me that the people of Samoa might also have an opinion about RFK Jr having anything to do with healthcare.
How RFK Jr. Falsely Denied His Connection to a Deadly Measles Outbreak in Samoa
He also championed a Samoan anti-vaxxer tied to the 2019 lethal eruption that killed scores of children.
Appearing in Shot in the Arm, a 2023 documentary about vaccine opposition, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was asked about the deadly measles outbreak that occurred in Samoa in 2019 and claimed the lives of 83 people, mostly children. Kennedy, a leading anti-vaxxer who had visited the Pacific island nation a few months before the outbreak, replied, “I’m aware there was a measles outbreak…I had nothing to do with people not vaccinating in Samoa. I never told anybody not to vaccinate. I didn’t go there with any reason to do with that.”
Kennedy was being disingenuous, sidestepping his connection to that tragedy. Children’s Health Defense, the nonprofit anti-vax outfit he led until becoming a presidential candidate, had helped spread misinformation that contributed to the decline in measles vaccination that preceded the lethal eruption. And during his trip to Samoa, Kennedy had publicly supported leading vaccination opponents there, lending credibility to anti-vaxxers who were succeeding in increasing vaccine hesitation among Samoans. Moreover, in early 2021, Kennedy, in a little-noticed blog post, hailed one of those vaccination foes as a “hero.”




























