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lol he's literally a chaos agent for Steve Bannon. The only person who would vote for him is a confused Democrat or a Republican would push him.
https://www.salon.com/2023/04/06/steve-bannon-spent-months-recruiting-anti-vaxxer-rfk-jr-to-run-against-biden-as-chaos-agent/
He's an alt right astro turf.
"People familiar with the matter told the outlet that Bannon hoped Kennedy could serve as a "useful chaos agent" in the election while also spreading "anti-vaccine sentiment around the country," according to CBS News' Robert Costs."
And oh wow, he's doing just that.
You linked a salon article that says a private source says that bannon secretly tried to get someone to run.
Any, ya know, reliable sources?
Steve Bannon has actively supported RFK on his podcast War Room. Just go watch War Room live.
"Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon has spent nearly two years promoting anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist and Democratic presidential primary candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on his War Room podcast in a mutually beneficial relationship that could have disastrous public health consequences for the country and the world."
Steve Bannon only pushes specific alt right candidates. So why would he suddenly push Rfk Jr. Because he's suddenly benevolent? He has direct ties to Qanon. There is major incentive to push RFK Jr. from a chaos agent standpoint.
"Even relative to other right-wing media, Bannon’s podcast is a hotbed of conspiracy theories, many of which relate directly to COVID-19 and vaccines. He frequently pushes junk science from discredited charlatans like Naomi Wolf, has celebrated efforts to disrupt vaccine distribution, and claimed the pandemic was everything from a way to eradicate religion to a form of global war deliberately unleashed by China.
Given this feverish and paranoid atmosphere, it’s not surprising that Bannon amplified Kennedy’s longstanding efforts to discredit safe and effective vaccines, including those that protect against COVID-19, and has now latched onto his nascent campaign. Both are ecumenical and opportunistic in their conspiracism, including pushing QAnon messages and influencers."
https://www.mediamatters.org/steve-bannon/steve-bannon-has-spent-years-promoting-rfk-jr-and-his-crackpot-anti-vaccine-theories
There are sources in each article. Or you could, ya know, just go watch Steve Bannon for a while and RFK talk, and research his links to all this.