in an astonishing event, Democratic Party He launched a series of vicious attacks on presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over his recent comments about COVID-19 and race.
according to new york postPresident Kennedy said the new coronavirus was “targeted” to be particularly vicious against “whites” and African Americans, while “Atshchenkazi Jews and Chinese” were effectively “immune”. was claiming.
Democrats quickly fought back.and statement Today, the House Democratic campaign team lashed out at what RFK Jr. deemed an unabashed parroting of conspiracy theories.
DCCC Chairman Rep. Suzanne Derbene condemned the candidate’s “reprehensible anti-Semitic and anti-Asian rhetoric intended to perpetuate a harmful and derogatory racist trope” .
“Such dangerous racism and hatred has no place in the United States, demonstrates his unfitness for public office, and must be condemned in the strongest terms possible,” she added.
Democratic National Committee Chairman Jamie Harrison similarly said President Kennedy’s comments were “deeply disturbing” and “does not represent the views of the Democratic Party.”
House Minority Leader Harken Jeffries I didn’t even throw a punch. “Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s abhorrent use of vile anti-Semitic tropes and unbridled xenophobic conspiracy theories is unacceptable and unconscionable,” he said.
Even RFK Junior younger sister Kelly Kennedy has joined the fray to “strongly condemn my brother’s lamentable and untruthful statements last week that the novel coronavirus is being manipulated to target ethnic groups.”
The White House called his remarks “Vulgar‘, some say, Democratic Party It went as far as comparing Kennedy to Hitler.
Several Democrats wrote to Republican House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, claiming that “Mr. Kennedy employs a pernicious form of anti-Semitism that has been used for centuries. This technique was used by Hitler to claim biological differences between ethnicities and races, to portray Jews as inferior to humanity, and to justify their extermination during the Holocaust. It became a stepping stone. ”
President Kennedy responded to the allegations Said“I do not believe the ethnic effect was deliberately manipulated, nor have I ever suggested it.”
This is not the first time that Mr. Kennedy’s views have clashed with mainstream Democrats. Various sections of his campaign website highlight his deep mistrust of the federal government and his willingness to deviate from traditional Democratic arguments. (Related: Conservatives support RFK Jr., but with some big caveats)
RFK Jr. It also targets the Biden administration, which has embroiled the United States in foreign conflicts such as the Russo-Ukrainian war.A recent poll also revealed RFK Jr. Despite continuing to trail Biden by a wide margin in election polls, he is ahead of both Joe Biden and the current Republican frontrunner, Donald J. Trump.
The controversy is bound to create more problems for Biden’s own 2024 campaign. If Biden is seen as incapable of dealing with divisions within the party, his political standing will only fall further.
As his future activities show, testimony Before the Republican-led House Select Committee on Federal Weaponization, RFK Jr. expressed some skepticism about Kennedy’s recent coronavirus comments. has also moved closer to the Republican Party in recent months.
Democrats have long perceived RFK Jr. as an unbridled cannon, and will use the public scrutiny of RFK Jr. to effectively disown him. Doing so could provoke backlash from supporters and sympathizers within the party.
RFK’s distance from Democrats, and the ferocious criticism he has received from Democrats, underscores the overall divide between the party’s centrist and more radical progressive voters. As the 2024 general election progresses, it remains to be seen whether this will have an immediate impact on Biden’s re-election chances. But that doesn’t bode well for his public image as a united leader.
