A top Robert F. Kennedy Jr. campaign official and longtime anti-vaxxer says her overarching goal is to ruin Joe Biden’s chances of winning reelection in November, telling a group of GOP voters that the current president is “our mutual enemy.”
In a half-hour speech to the Empire State Republicans, Rita Palma, director of Kennedy’s New York State operation, shared her strategy for deep-sixing Biden’s run, describing his defeat as the “number one priority for me.”
“Right now, the task we have at hand is collecting 45,000 signatures to get Bobby on the ballot,” Palma said in footage of the gathering that was posted to YouTube but has since been deleted. “However much I adore Bobby Kennedy, I am a two-time Trump voter. I knocked on doors for him in Pennsylvania, in ‘16 and ‘20. I have more Trump T-shirts than I do Bobby Kennedy T-shirts… So, I was a strong Trump voter. But frankly, with the [support he showed for] vaccines, he lost me.”
In the video, a copy of which was viewed by The Daily Beast, Palma laid out her plans to siphon votes away from Biden, conceding that it still would not lead to a Kennedy win. However, she continued, “If I wake up November 6, and Trump wins, I’m not going to be overly upset.”
“But if Biden wins, we’re all going to be terribly upset, because he’s ruining America,” Palma went on. “And the people that control him are ruining our country. So that’s kind of, you know, the framework from which I’m coming tonight.”
