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FIRST ON FOX: Former President Trump is being preemptively attacked by Democrats over a speculated endorsement from Robert F. Kennedy Jr. following his anticipated presidential marketing campaign suspension.
On Friday morning, the Democratic Nationwide Committee (DNC) unveiled 4 billboards focusing on Trump over the doubtless looming endorsement.
“Bizarre as hell,” the billboards say, that includes images of Trump, his operating mate Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, and Kennedy.
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Trump and RFK Jr. are being focused collectively by the DNC. (Getty Pictures)
The indicators debuted in battleground state Arizona, the place Trump has a scheduled rally with a “particular visitor,” and in Chicago, Illinois, the place the Democratic Nationwide Conference wrapped on Thursday.
Kennedy’s presidential marketing campaign notably introduced an handle to the nation on Friday, additionally in Arizona.
One of many Chicago billboards shall be on the metropolis’s Trump Worldwide Lodge, with the objective of individuals viewing it as they depart after the conference.
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The DNC unveiled a billboard tying Trump and Vance to RFK Jr. (Democratic Nationwide Committee)
The paid promoting marketing campaign is the DNC’s first that includes Kennedy since President Biden’s suspension of his re-election bid.
The Trump and Kennedy campaigns didn’t present remark to Fox Information Digital in time for publication.
“MAGA Republicans elevated RFK Jr.’s sham candidacy as a software to mislead voters and harm Democrats, and RFK Jr.’s exit is an admission their gambit failed,” wrote Ramsey Reid, who oversees the DNC’s effort in opposition to third-party candidates, in a memo obtained first by Fox Information Digital.
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Kennedy is purported to be ending his marketing campaign. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Pictures)
Reid revealed that the social gathering’s knowledge on Kennedy confirmed their efforts paying off and his favorability dropping all through the marketing campaign.
“As voters have discovered about RFK Jr.’s unsavory and reckless previous, ties to MAGA donors, and MAGA-lite positions on abortion bans and January sixth pardons, his assist has dwindled to make him a near-negligible issue,” Reid wrote.
“The little assist that continues to be is tender, break up throughout ideologies, and disproportionately amongst decrease propensity voters,” he continued. “With no significant base of assist and sky-high negatives amongst Democrats, RFK Jr.’s risk to VP Harris was neutralized.”
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Trump will maintain a rally in Arizona with a particular visitor. (Rebecca Noble/Getty Pictures)
Additional, Reid claimed, if Trump accepted Kennedy’s endorsement, he would “personal all of RFK Jr.’s baggage.” On high of that, “he would presumably need to appoint him and that baggage to a significant place in his authorities.”
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Kennedy’s marketing campaign has not confirmed the stories that he plans to drop out or that he’ll subsequently endorse Trump.
In a Fox Information Ballot earlier this month, Trump defeated Vice President Kamala Harris in a head-to-head match-up, 50% to 49%. However with the inclusion of third-party candidates, together with Kennedy, Trump and Harris had been tied at 45% every nationally. Kennedy obtained 6% within the ballot.
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Julia Johnson is a politics author for Fox Information Digital and Fox Enterprise, main protection of the U.S. Senate. She was beforehand a politics reporter on the Washington Examiner.
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