A Super PAC supporting the doomed candidacy of Democratic-hopeful and Republican show pony Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. collected nearly $6.5 million in July, with nearly $5 million of it collected as the candidate testified before a House committee where Republicans propped up the anti-vax conspiracy theorist as a viable alternative to President Joe Biden.
As Politico notes, American Values 2024 has received significant support from people who have supported Donald Trump’s candidacy in the past, a sign that Republicans hope RFK Jr.’s visibility will chip away at the incumbent’s support within the Democratic Party, likely hoping to reduce turnout for Biden in the general election, as happened when disaffected Bernie voters failed to vote for Hillary Clinton in 2016.
“The fact that Kennedy gets so much bipartisan support tells me two things: that he’s the one candidate who can unite the country and root out corruption and that he’s the one Democrat who can win in the general election,” Tim Mellon, a Trump supporter in the past two election cycles, said in the press release. Mellon also provided more than 95% of the donations to Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s $54 million border barrier fund, so his hopes for an RFK ascendance is a mirage.