How the Kennedy scion turned to Trump
obert Kennedy Jr.’s presidential campaign ended as it began: with a lengthy speech that railed against the dark forces controlling politics, government and the media.
Kennedy says all of this was by design. “I’m less interested in campaigning and I have, I would say, almost zero interest in attention," he told me in an interview in Albuquerque, N.M., in June, where he was about to premiere his latest documentary in front of an audience of more than 200 supporters wearing “Kennedy for President” buttons."I really am preoccupied with governing.”
Supporters attend a screening for"Recovering America", a documentary that features Kennedy, at the Kiva Auditorium in Albuquerque on June 15.Staffers who believed in Kennedy's stated mission of"healing the divide" tried to propose a more strategic approach."I can't be the only one saying let's go to Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, Nevada," recalls one former staffer.
The DNC ran an aggressive, organized, and unusually public effort to draw attention to Kennedy's history of conspiracies and paint him as a Republican-backed stalking horse for Trump. It focused on Kennedy’s ballot-access efforts, retaining lawyers to file legal challenges against the campaign and his super PAC for any violation of federal coordination laws. They were especially worried about swing states, where even a small number of votes could potentially sway the election.
Shanahan was equally disparaging."I don't like his style," she said of Trump in her separate interview with TIME."It's very brutish." A Democrat or Republican win would be"different flavors of awful" for the country, she said.
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