{"id":1976337,"date":"2023-07-18T15:07:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T19:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kennedy-inspiring-a-different-kind-of-crossover-voting-movement-voters-say\/"},"modified":"2023-07-18T15:10:54","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T19:10:54","slug":"kennedy-inspiring-a-different-kind-of-crossover-voting-movement-voters-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kennedy-inspiring-a-different-kind-of-crossover-voting-movement-voters-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Voters claim Kennedy inspires unique crossover voting movement."},"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\">16<\/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%2Fkennedy-inspiring-a-different-kind-of-crossover-voting-movement-voters-say%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=1976337&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--><div class=\"post_content\">\n<h2>Republicans \u200dCrossing Over\u200b to Support RFK\u200c Jr. in Primaries<\/h2>\n<p>Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is\u2064 inspiring a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rep-liz-cheney-in-a-bitter-fight-against-trump-backed-wyoming-primary-rival\/\" title=\"Rep. Liz Cheney in a Bitter Fight Against Trump-Backed Wyoming Primary Rival\">crossover voting<\/a> movement among Republicans similar\u2062 to those seen in \u2063past presidential primaries but with a\u200d twist.<\/p>\n<p>Janice Foster, currently\u2064 a\u200c registered \u200cRepublican \u200cin Lexington, Kentucky, told \u200cThe\u200b Epoch Times she is\u2064 registering Democrat to vote in the\u2063 primaries not because she sees RFK Jr. as\u200b an easier candidate for her \u2063party\u200d to\u2063 beat in\u2062 general elections,\u2063 but because she\u2064 sees him\u200d as a better candidate for America than \u200dPresident\u200d Joe\u2062 Biden.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d rather \u200bKennedy than Biden,\u201d said Mrs.\u2062 Foster,\u200c \u201cI\u2019d rather sacrifice my\u200c vote for a Republican than \u2064not do\u200c my part to make\u2063 sure he\u2063 doesn\u2019t \u2064get \u2063back into office.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In \u2063crossover voting, which\u2062 can only \u200coccur in\u2064 states\u200b with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/establishment-democrats-cant-ditch-biden-because-of-likable-old-schoolers-like-rfk-jr\/\" title=\"Establishment Dems Stick with Biden Due to RFK Jr. and Old-School Charm.\">open\u200d primaries<\/a>, electors switch parties to\u2063 vote\u200d in the opposing primary usually in\u200c an effort\u2064 to put \u2062their \u200cweakest \u200ccandidate on the \u200bballot \u2064and then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-president-trump-met-with-sidney-powell-and-general-flynn-in-oval-office-discussed-deploying-military-naming-powell-as-special-counsel-on-election-fraud\/\" title=\"REPORT: President Trump Met with Sidney Powell and General Flynn in Oval Office \u2013 Discussed Deploying Military, Naming Powell as Special Counsel on Election Fraud\">switch votes<\/a>\u200d for their original\u2064 party\u2019s candidate in \u2062general\u2064 elections.<\/p>\n<p>There are currently \u206220 \u200bstates with\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/andrew-yang-says-he-has-left-democratic-party\/\" title=\"Andrew Yang Says He Has Left Democratic Party\">open primaries<\/a> or semi-open primaries. \u200dThey include\u200c South Carolina, \u200bTexas, Georgia, Indiana, \u200cVirginia, Ohio, \u200dand Illinois.<\/p>\n<p>Semi-open \u2063primaries allow \u200cunaffiliated\u2062 voters \u2064to\u2064 participate in the party primary \u200bof their choice without affiliating with \u2063the party.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5300549\" style=\"width: 3932px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/05\/30\/id5300549-05302023-DSC06616-Biden-and-Jill-1200x800.jpg\"><figcaption\u2063 class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a> President Joe \u2064Biden\u200b (L) and First Lady \u2063Jill Biden\u200d (R) arrive\u2064 at the White House South \u200cLawn in Washington on May 30,\u200c 2023. \u2062(Madalina\u200b Vasiliu\/The\u200d Epoch\u200b Times)<\/figure>\n<p>There are\u200d also \u200cseveral states like New \u2064Hampshire,\u2063 Massachusetts,\u200b and New York \u2064that have \u2064semi-closed\u2063 primaries,\u2062 which allows\u200b unaffiliated voters to vote in \u200beither primary, but\u200d they\u2064 must register\u200d with that \u2062party\u2063 on\u2064 the day\u200b of primary\u200b voting.<\/p>\n<p>Registered Republican \u2063Erin Fortin, a native of Maine where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kennedy-inspiring-a-different-kind-of-crossover-voting-movement-voters-say\/\" title=\"Voters claim Kennedy inspires unique crossover voting movement.\">lawmakers passed\u2064 legislation<\/a> last year\u200d making\u2062 the \u200cstate\u2019s primary semi-open, \u2064told The Epoch Times,\u2064 she \u2063is \u201cclosing\u2063 her eyes\u201d \u2062and switching \u2062back to being\u200c a\u2062 Democrat \u2064voter because she too wants to help\u2062 foster Mr. \u200cKennedy\u2019s chances\u2064 of beating Mr. Biden for the nomination.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me, the primaries are now more \u2064about protecting \u2062America against\u200b the worst candidate from \u2063the other \u200cparty\u2062 than\u2064 trying\u2062 to \u200cpromote the weaker one \u200cfor \u2064party gain purposes,\u201d said\u2064 Mrs. Fortin, who said she\u200b was\u2064 a\u2062 lifelong registered \u200bDemocrat\u200d until the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>There have been several major\u200b attempts \u200din modern\u2062 politics \u200dto use crossover \u2064voting by one \u2063party\u200b to put a\u2062 weaker candidate on the\u200d opposing party \u2063ticket to bolster \u200bthe chances\u2063 of winning\u200b for their \u200bparty \u200cin the\u200b race \u200bfor the \u2062presidency.<\/p>\n<p>The two most \u200bprominent ones were dubbed \u2063Operation Chaos with the\u200c first\u2063 one led \u2062by\u200b conservative talk show giant\u2064 Rush Limbaugh, who has since died.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Limbaugh launched the crossover campaign\u200c in \u2064an effort\u2062 to hand a win to Hillary Clinton \u2063over Barack\u200c Obama under\u200d the \u2062idea\u2064 she \u200dcouldn\u2019t beat \u200bGOP contender Sen. John McCain.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Mr. Limbaugh\u2019s\u200b efforts, \u2062Obama won\u2063 the primary and the\u200d White House.<\/p>\n<p>The second was led by\u200c Tea Party \u200cRepublicans in South Carolina in \u20632020 \u200cwith Mr. \u2062Biden as the ultimate target.<\/p>\n<p>According to an\u200b article by \u2062The Greenville News, the\u2064 Greenville\u200d Republican\u2064 Party called\u200c on supporters to\u2062 pick\u2064 Democrat contender\u200d Sen. Bernie Sanders and \u201cvote for\u200c the\u200d worst \u2063Democrat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u200cscheme didn\u2019t \u2063work. \u2062Biden\u2064 not only\u200b overwhelmingly won South Carolina\u2019s\u2064 Democrat primary but went on to\u2062 win the presidency.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Sanders\u200b eventually dropped out\u200c of the \u200drace after\u2063 losing in several primaries.<\/p>\n<p>A \u200bsimilar crossover campaign had \u200dbeen hatched by Democrats in South \u2063Carolina and Michigan two\u200c decades\u200c earlier \u2064in\u2062 2000 in the contest \u2064between\u2064 Sen. McCain and George W.\u2063 Bush.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds\u2062 of Democrats \u2064in both states registered\u2063 as Republicans \u200bin an\u2064 effort \u2064to give \u200dSen.\u200c McCain \u200dthe \u2062party \u200dnomination under\u200c the\u200d idea\u200d that\u200b he \u2064would be\u200c easier \u200bto \u2062defeat by their\u200d party candidate Al Gore.<\/p>\n<p>That crossover effort too failed \u2063and Bush went on to become \u200bpresident.<\/p>\n<p>In \u20632022, TargetSmart,\u200b which bills itself the \u201cnation\u2019s \u2064leading Democratic analytics \u2062and research \u2063firm\u201d\u200c conducted\u2062 an\u2064 in-depth study of crossover\u2064 voting, and\u200d concluded\u200d tha<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is sparking a unique crossover voting trend among Republicans. Janice Foster from Lexington, Kentucky, a registered Republican, plans to switch to Democrat for the primaries. She believes RFK Jr. offers a different perspective, not seeking an easier path.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":283,"featured_media":1976338,"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":[543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1976337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times"],"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\/1976337","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\/283"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1976337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1976338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1976337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1976337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1976337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}