{"id":2214373,"date":"2024-04-06T12:26:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-06T16:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/adam-kinzinger-suggests-rfk-jrs-campaign-was-hijacked-by-maga\/"},"modified":"2024-04-06T12:27:05","modified_gmt":"2024-04-06T16:27:05","slug":"adam-kinzinger-suggests-rfk-jrs-campaign-was-hijacked-by-maga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/adam-kinzinger-suggests-rfk-jrs-campaign-was-hijacked-by-maga\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Kinzinger implies that RFK Jr&#8217;s campaign was taken over by MAGA"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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%2Fadam-kinzinger-suggests-rfk-jrs-campaign-was-hijacked-by-maga%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=2214373&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--><p>Former Rep. Adam \u200bKinzinger \u2062expressed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/are-covid-case-surges-more-fake-news\/\" title=\"Are COVID Case Surges More Fake News?\">concerns<\/a> about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/target-gets-bad-news-from-coalition-of-state-ags-pride-campaign-might-have-broken-child-protection-laws\/\" title=\"Target receives troubling news from State AG coalition: 'Pride' campaign potentially violated child protection laws.\">campaign potentially<\/a> being influenced by Donald Trump&#8217;s \u200cMake America Great\u2064 Again \u200dmovement.\u200c Kinzinger criticized Kennedy&#8217;s stance on the January 6 events,\u2064 stating that the campaign might have been taken\u2063 over by MAGA. Kennedy defended Trump&#8217;s\u2063 role in the riots\u200b three <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ca-governor-breaks-his-own-covid-rules-to-eat-fancy-french-food\/\" title=\"Ca. Governor Breaks His Own COVID Rules To Eat Fancy French Food\">years ago<\/a>, indicating an effort to listen\u2062 to various perspectives.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Former Rep. <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/adam-kinzinger\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Adam Kinzinger<\/a> voiced his concerns about <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/rfk-jr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Robert F. Kennedy Jr.<\/a>\u2018s campaign having ties to Donald Trump\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/maga\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Make America Great Again<\/a> movement. <\/p>\n<p>Kinzinger appeared on <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/videos\/title-2437739\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"The Source with Kaitlan Collins\">The Source with Kaitlan Collins<\/a><\/em>  Friday to respond to Kennedy\u2019s statement on Jan. 6. His statement was a response to a fundraising email that referred to rioters as \u201cJ6 activists.\u201d Kennedy went on to clarify that some \u201cprotesters broke the law,\u201d but he was \u201cconcerned about the possibility that political objectives motivated the vigor of the prosecution of the J6 defendants, their long sentences, and their harsh treatment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook, this is \u2014 this is one of the\u00a0more insane ramblings I\u2018ve\u00a0heard from him and I\u2018ve heard\u00a0some insane ramblings,\u201d Kinzinger said of the statement. \u201cHis campaign has been hijacked by MAGA. Maybe not \u2018hijacked,\u2019 maybe voluntarily. And so, you\u2019re gonna start seeing more and more of this kind of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Donald Trump<\/a> conspiracies, and he\u2019s either going along with it, because that\u2019s gonna help him raise money and get notoriety, or he truly believes it. Regardless, he\u2019s absolutely wrong, and this is a frightening thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Kennedy is running as an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/meet-the-man-trying-to-shake-up-yales-secretive-governing-body\/\" title=\"Meet the Man Trying to Shake Up Yale\u2019s Secretive Governing Body\">independent candidate<\/a> against Trump this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/2024-elections\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>November<\/a>, Kennedy defended the former president\u2019s involvement in the riots from over three years ago. He claimed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-taking-regeneron-drug-remdesivir-therapy-for-coronavirus-diagnosis-ex-wh-doctor-explains\/\" title=\"Trump taking Regeneron drug, Remdesivir therapy for coronavirus diagnosis: ex-WH doctor explains\">make<\/a> an effort to \u201cto hear every side\u201d and cited conversations with \u201creasonable people, including Trump opponents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey observe that the protestors carried no weapons, had no plans or ability to seize the reins of government, and that Trump himself had urged them to protest \u2018peacefully,\u2019\u201d Kennedy wrote. <\/p>\n<p>This comes after a March 23 fundraiser hosted by a couple named Steve and Tracy Slepcevic on Kennedy\u2019s behalf. Tracy was a ReAwaken America tour speaker alongside Trump\u2019s advisor Roger Stone and MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell among others. Steve was in Washington, D.C. on January 6, 2021 but did not enter the Capitol building during the riots and was so far removed from those that did that he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2024\/04\/rfk-jr-steve-tracy-slepcevic-fundraisers-trump-qanon-january-6-extermists\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"claimed online\">claimed online<\/a> afterward that it was a \u201cstaged event.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is [Kennedy\u2019s] way of\u00a0pleasing those that want to\u00a0hear that he just hasn\u2018t looked\u00a0at the evidence in detail and\u00a0winking to the MAGA folks,\u201d Kinzinger said. <\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kennedy initially filed to run as a Democratic candidate for president but switched to being independent weeks into his campaign. He has garnered 13% support nationwide, according to a poll cited by Collins, but Kinzinger said he was \u201cnot sure that 13% number holds up in the long-term.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Since becoming an independent, Kennedy has collected enough signatures to be on the ballots in Utah, Nevada, New Hampshire, and North Carolina. However, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/Nevada\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Nevada<\/a> signatures now might become invalid because at the time the signatures were collected,\u00a0Kennedy\u00a0had not named his running mate Nicole Shanahan. Nevada requires independent candidates to list the entire ticket in order for the signatures gathered under that ticket to qualify.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Congressman Adam Kinzinger expressed worries about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.&#8217;s campaign potentially aligning with the Make America Great Again movement led by Donald Trump. Kinzinger addressed Kennedy&#8217;s remarks regarding January 6 during an interview on The Source with Kaitlan Collins. This followed a controversial fundraising email that referred to the rioters as &#8220;J6<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2631,"featured_media":2214374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Adam-Kinzinger-Robert-F.-Kennedy-Jr-1024x591.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2214373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Adam-Kinzinger-Robert-F.-Kennedy-Jr-1024x591.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2214373","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\/2631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2214373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2214373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2214374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2214373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2214373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2214373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}