RFK Jr. ‘fed up’ in first 2024 election campaign ad

Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says he is “fed up” in his first 2024 campaign advertisement as an independent.

Kennedy was previously running for president as a Democrat but announced on Monday that he would be switching from the Democratic Party to an independent for his White House run.

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“Yeah, I was fed up too,” Kennedy said after a video montage of politicians and pundits attacking members of the opposite party. “And that’s why I’m running for President of the United States as an independent.”

The campaign ad featured clips of President Joe Biden, former President Donald Trump, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough and Rachel Maddow, Fox News’s Greg Gutfeld, and other figures to represent the political divide in America.

Kennedy was previously hoping to win the Democratic Party nomination over Biden. But despite concern from the Democrats over his age, the president has not engaged with any of his primary challengers.

After Monday’s “historic” announcement in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that Kennedy would be ditching the Democrats in favor of an independent bid, some pundits posit that Kennedy could play “spoiler” in the 2024 election.

Kennedy’s decision to run as an independent historically ensures he will not win the 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidential election, but it could siphon votes away from moderate Republicans or Democrats.

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The last time a third-party candidate won any electoral votes was when American Independent George Wallace took 46 electoral votes in 1968. In 1996, Reform Party candidate Ross Perot did not win any electoral votes but did manage to secure 8.4% of the popular vote.

A recent poll suggests that a majority of voters believe both the GOP and Democratic parties “do such a poor job that a third major party is needed,” including 58% of Republicans, 46% of Democrats, and 75% of independents.