{"id":1945551,"date":"2023-06-06T15:33:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T19:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/legacy-media-sounds-alarm-over-rfks-right-wing-ideas\/"},"modified":"2023-06-06T15:34:23","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T19:34:23","slug":"legacy-media-sounds-alarm-over-rfks-right-wing-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/legacy-media-sounds-alarm-over-rfks-right-wing-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"Legacy media alarmed by RFK&#8217;s conservative views."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flegacy-media-sounds-alarm-over-rfks-right-wing-ideas%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1945551&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Robert F. Kennedy Jr.&#8217;s Presidential Campaign Alarms Democrats<\/h2>\n<p>Legacy media outlets are sounding the alarm over long-shot Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.\u2019s \u201cright-wing ideas.\u201d Kennedy, the nephew of the late President John F. Kennedy, announced his 2024 presidential campaign in April. Since then, he has polled surprisingly strongly and currently has double-digit support, alarming Democrats who expect President Biden to easily clinch the party\u2019s nomination for a second term.<\/p>\n<h3>Strong Polling Performance<\/h3>\n<p>Kennedy currently polls at 20% support, according to a recent CNN poll. RealClearPolitics\u2019 average of polls puts him at just under 17% support, while Biden is at 42.5%. On Monday, Kennedy joined Twitter chief Elon Musk in a Twitter Space audio discussion about his presidential bid. The discussion, dubbed \u201cReclaiming Democracy,\u201d lasted more than two hours and featured other participants, including former Democratic congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, who left the Democratic Party last year, and David Sacks, a top donor to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who is running for the Republican 2024 nomination.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cOn Monday, he sounded like a candidate far more at ease in the mushrooming Republican presidential contest,\u201d The New York Times wrote Monday in a piece warning that Kennedy \u201cpushes right-wing ideas and misinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Controversial Views<\/h3>\n<p>Kennedy has been a vaccine skeptic since long before the pandemic, and he voiced concerns about the COVID vaccine starting in 2020. Kennedy apologized in early 2022 for referencing Adolf Hitler and Holocaust victim Anne Frank at an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-group-plans-additional-rally-against-covid-mandates\/\" title=\"California Group Plans Additional Rally Against COVID Mandates\">anti-vaccine rally<\/a>. He also made headlines last year when he accused Dr. Anthony Fauci of orchestrating \u201cfascism.\u201d Vanity Fair asked Monday, \u201cHave Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and His Anti-vax Conspiracies Found a Home?\u201d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kennedy promised during the Twitter space that he is \u201cnot going to take away anybody\u2019s guns.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>He suggested that psychiatric drugs may be linked to school shootings.<\/li>\n<li>Kennedy also plans to travel to the southern border this week to \u201ctry to formulate policies that will seal the border permanently.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Surprise Endorsement<\/h3>\n<p>Kennedy received a surprise endorsement Sunday from former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, who tweeted that Kennedy \u201ccan and will\u201d defeat former President Donald Trump and DeSantis in 2024. Also on Sunday, Instagram lifted the suspension on Kennedy\u2019s account. Kennedy was banned from Instagram back in 2021 \u201cfor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-did-mike-tyson-wear-a-trust-in-god-not-in-vaccines-shirt\/\" title=\"FACT CHECK: Did Mike Tyson Wear A \u2018Trust In God, Not In Vaccines\u2019 Shirt?\">repeatedly sharing debunked claims<\/a> about the coronavirus or vaccines,\u201d Facebook, which owns Instagram, said at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Despite his controversial views, Kennedy&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/legacy-media-sounds-alarm-over-rfks-right-wing-ideas\/\" title=\"Legacy media alarmed by RFK's conservative views.\">strong polling performance<\/a> is an \u201cannoyance\u201d for Biden and \u201cpotentially dangerous.\u201d POLITICO said. Kennedy \u201ctests the conspiratorial appetite of Democrats,\u201d the Washington Post declared Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legacy media outlets are concerned about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.&#8217;s &#8220;right-wing ideas&#8221; as he runs for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2024. Despite being a long-shot candidate, Kennedy has gained double-digit support, causing alarm among Democrats who expect an easy win for President Biden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":1945552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[6213,4914,4185,4188,28436,4467],"class_list":["post-1945551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-alarmed","tag-conservative","tag-legacy","tag-media","tag-rfks","tag-views"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1945551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1945552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1945551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1945551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1945551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}