Do Conservatives Actually Like RFK Jr., or Do They Just Think He’ll Hurt Biden?

May 18, 2023

Democrats spent tens of millions of dollars last year’s midterms meddling in Republican primaries. Republicans may now be borrowing a page from their playbook.

by Joe Lancaster Reason.com

After announcing he would challenge President Joe Biden for the 2024 Democratic presidential nomination, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. saw a burst of popularity, polling as high as 21 percent. More notable than a Kennedy polling well among Democrats, however, might be that RFK Jr. has received substantial support from figures on the right. This raises the question of whether that support is sincere.

“Dismissing Robert F. Kennedy Jr. might be a mistake,” Michael Brendan Dougherty wrote at National Review, arguing that Kennedy could “revive left-leaning skepticism of government and corporate power” and “denounce crony capitalism, censorship, and the CIA to boot.” Tucker Carlson said of Kennedy on his Fox News show, “it’s nice to have a truth teller around.”