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Bucky

(54,190 posts)
Mon May 20, 2024, 07:39 AM May 20

Trump is accusing Kennedy of being a "fake" anti-vaxxer.

Wha-?

from Politico
‘Politically calculated’: Trump confronts his RFK Jr. problem on vaccines
The former president is accusing Kennedy of being a “fake” anti-vaxxer.

Donald Trump’s long-fraught relationship with the Covid vaccine is again becoming a political liability for the former president as he tries to stop his voters from potentially defecting to independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Trump is threatening to “not give one penny” to schools or colleges that mandate the Covid-19 vaccine. He is accusing Kennedy of being a “fake” anti-vaxxer. And he is rarely mentioning what he once touted as “one of the greatest miracles” of his presidency — his program to speed development of the vaccine.

“Trump’s statements are clearly deliberate and politically calculated to negate the threat that [Kennedy] has become to him,” Republican strategist and former Trump administration appointee Matthew Bartlett said. “Otherwise, he would be demanding a Nobel prize for Operation Warp Speed and taking credit for ending the pandemic.”

Trump’s elevation of vaccine policy in recent weeks reflects the unique problem that Kennedy poses for the presumptive Republican nominee. While presidential candidates typically moderate their messages for a general election audience after winning primaries, Kennedy has forced the former president to continue guarding his right flank on Covid by attracting vaccine skeptics to his third-party campaign and skewering Trump’s support for early pandemic shutdowns.
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Trump is accusing Kennedy of being a "fake" anti-vaxxer. (Original Post) Bucky May 20 OP
'A who is the biggest anti-vaxxer contest' is good for Dems IMO. speak easy May 20 #1
Trump is vaccinated. Johonny May 20 #2
This will be fun to watch LetMyPeopleVote May 20 #3
Trump, "I'm more antivax than you are" Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 20 #4

Johonny

(21,131 posts)
2. Trump is vaccinated.
Mon May 20, 2024, 09:56 AM
May 20

Boasted about covid vaccine development over and over. He was very late to the anti-vax party. Like a true leader, only when he discovered being anti-vax got him more cheers, he suddenly was anti-vax. Trump is a complete fake. That his followers don't see it makes them suckers.

LetMyPeopleVote

(146,676 posts)
3. This will be fun to watch
Mon May 20, 2024, 11:24 AM
May 20

Bob is evidently cutting into TFG's base more than Bob cuts into President Biden's base

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