Who is Afraid of Bobby?

For John, BLUF:  While Third Party Candidates don't win, they do influence the outcome, so can not be ignored.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Republicans are starting to worry about RFK Jr.

Here is the sub-headline:

Even Donald Trump acknowledged Monday that the independent candidate “probably hurts both” Biden and him.

From Politico, by Reporters Lisa Kashinsky, Brittany Gibson, Jessica Piper and Steven Shepard, 22 April 2024, 10:02 PM EDT.

Here is the lede plus one:

Republicans are waking up to the reality that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. could sink their standard-bearer just as easily as he could hurt President Joe Biden, after a pair of new polls showed the presence of third-party candidates on the ballot might not necessarily benefit former President Donald Trump.

Even Trump is acknowledging his potential problem.

“They say he hurts Biden. I’m not sure that that’s true, and I think he probably hurts [us] both,” Trump said of Kennedy in a radio interview Monday night. “But he might hurt Biden a little bit more, you don’t know.”

so true.&hbsp; Caandidate robert Kennedy has been dismissed by his family and by the Democrstic Nationsal committee, but he is still there.

Yes, he hurts them both, but when some crackpot finally takes a shot at him it will hurt President Biden more, since his Secretary of Homeland Security won’t provide Secret Service protection to Mr Kennedy.  Are there no thinkers down there in the Democratic Party Swamp.  Has no one asked the question of how bad it would look for two Robert Kennedys to be assassinated on the campaign trail?  Father and Son?  What are they thinking, or are they like Rep. Bennie Thompson, hoping for the opposition to die at the hand of an assassin, saving President Biden time and trouble?

I would think our Massachusetts junior Senator, Ed Markey, and our local US Representative, Lori Trahan, have a clue.  Don't you think they could pass the word that there is a clue bag out there?

Hat tip to my Brother Lance.

Regards  —  Cliff