Some allies are warning Trump, and Kennedy is suddenly pressing the issue. Here’s what we can say.
more extreme corners of his base last week during President Biden’s State of the Union. Trump’s offense? Taking credit for the coronavirus vaccines that Biden hailed.Alex Jones threatened to go on the “warpath” if Trump kept it up. Michael Flynn agreed with Jones’s plea for Trump to stop. And Charlie Kirk chimed in among his fellow right-wing influencers with a warning of electoral peril for Trump.
The reason for that supposed peril is the independent candidacy of perhaps the country’s most prominent vaccine critic, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Kennedy hasn’t played up histoo much in his campaign, but he attacked Trump for his comment.
That suggests Trump has largely locked down most of his party’s strongest vaccine critics. Despite his role in pushing for the vaccines, and however much he’s praised the vaccines, it doesn’t seem to have cost him — at least, to the extent people have actually processed all of that.But the contrast with DeSantis and other GOP candidates who dipped their toe into vaccine skepticism was somewhat muddled.
Kennedy presents a more direct contrast, and he seems to be leaning in on this issue a bit more now. To the extent he wants to press this issue and pitch Trump as the father of a dangerous vaccine, it could force portions of Trump’s base into a choice they haven’t faced before. Maybe the anti-vaccine portion of his base will prove it truly believes in Trump and that the details are fungible, as it has on so many other issues., as he was when he brought up the vaccines in 2021. And last summer, Trump seemed to recognize how problematic this issue could be for him.,” Trump told Fox News, “because, as a Republican, it’s not a great thing to talk about, because for some reason it’s just not.
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