The stance puts Kennedy — who’s mounting long shot bid to unseat President Joe Biden as the Democratic standard bearer in 2024 — out of step with most of his party.

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    RFKJ is not a Democrat. His funding is all from MAGA billionaire Trumpers. His media presence is all on far-right sources. His message is conspiratorial Q-anon nonsense. Now he is lockstep with Republican anti-abortion policy. His whole purpose is to undermine any legitimate Democratic party candidacy.

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      A “3 month ban” is moderate compared to what the Republican, and his own, views on abortion are. For his crowd this is basically saying “I’m okay with murder before 3 months,” which exposes the political stunt this is.

      This is basically the Scandinavian model though, over time abortions become more risky and serious a procedure, first trimester is the common “no questions asked” window for countries who have legal abortions. RFK Jr doesn’t actually agree with this, he’s been committed to making abortion illegal in any window since he started his news org.

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      You act like they’re going to put forth any legitimate dnc candidate. It’s just Biden cause "oh ho hum he won against trump once so it’ll happen again!!*

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        Yes. People didnt vote for Biden in 2020, they voted against Trump. If the matchup in 2024 is the same, the outcome will be similar.

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          Man is this electoral system a disaster. “Voting against ___” is just “literally anyone else, as long as they’re not that awful”.

          Imagine if we could just vote on bills.

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          Yeah we’re in a crisis. We need an actual leader though. We can’t just stick to yet another geriatric old man, Biden might win again but he’ll be breaking the promise of only going for 4 years and will be going against 70% of the parties wishes for him to not run again.

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          I wouldn’t be so sure about that. Perception of the economy more or less decides elections, and that burned Trump heavily with the COVID chaos like supply chain shortages.

          Biden isn’t looking too much better, especially with record inflation and people struggling to afford living costs.

          Biden vs Trump rematch I think is dangerously close to tipping towards Trump.