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RFK Jr. Releases Powerful New 'MAHA' Ads

Leah Barkoukis
Leah Barkoukis  |  August 30, 2024 8:30 AM

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."

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."

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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.