Last week, independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced he was suspending his campaign and throwing his support behind former President Donald Trump. The news that the Democrat-turned-independent would not only support, but campaign for and become part of Trump’s transition team was highly disconcerting to his wife, he revealed, and other members of his family who took issue with the environmental attorney tarnishing the Kennedy name. He’s pushed this negativity aside and has instead focused on what unites Americans.
In ads released this week, RFK Jr. recalls a bygone time in America and one so many are yearning for once again.
The ad released Tuesday includes video of Frank Sinatra and clips from a speech his father gave the day after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. It closes by tying in parts of Kennedy's speech last week in Arizona.
"We are once again at a very similar crossroads," he said. "We have a unique opportunity not only to diffuse those tensions but to take a radically different path. It starts by seeing within others and within ourselves that which is not selfish but is brave and generous and idealistic and has good intentions."
This country is made up of a hundred different kinds of people and a hundred different ways of talking and a hundred different ways of going to church, but they are all American ways. pic.twitter.com/8E8NzU3EeI
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) August 27, 2024
He released another ad on Thursday featuring his uncle, President John F. Kennedy, discussing health in America, a key feature of RFK Jr.'s efforts now to "Make America Healthy Again."
JFK was dedicated to making Americans the healthiest people on earth. Now, RFK Jr. Is making that his mission.#MAHA pic.twitter.com/oCOzbdllrL
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) August 29, 2024
As a side note, Kennedy's running mate, Nicole Shanahan, explains below their embrace of MAHA: Make America Healthy Again, an idea given by the MAGA crowd.
Nicole Shanahan: “I was completely misinformed about what MAGA is”
— Holden Culotta (@Holden_Culotta) August 29, 2024
“The coming together of these two groups over the last week … has been really glorious.
And they gave us the name MAHA, Make America Healthy Again.
That was always the vision of this unity movement, this… pic.twitter.com/Dxo8TyGTGF