Republican Strategist Warns Trump Not to Get Too Close to ‘Looney Tune’ RFK Jr.

CNN commentator and GOP operative Scott Jennings cautioned former President Donald Trump against openly embracing Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who suspended his independent presidential campaign on Friday and endorsed the Republican nominee.

In a presser announcing the suspension, Kennedy bizarrely insisted he could still become president if Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris tie in the Electoral College. Afterward, Trump thanked Kennedy in a separate press conference.

On CNN’s The Situation Room, Ana Navarro called Kennedy’s move “one of the tackiest things I’ve ever seen in politics.”

Navarro noted that Kennedy had complained that Harris refused to meet with him and that the political scion sold his endorsement to “the highest bidder.” The anti-vax Kennedy is reportedly angling for a position in a second Trump administration, particularly in the Department of Health & Human Services.

“I think a campaign that’s already wrestling with the label of ‘weird’ bringing in a guy who’s had to deny that he ate a dog, who’s told us he had a worm in his brain, and who stabbed a dead cub bear and then posted it in Central Park – man, talk about adding weird to weird,” she said.

Host Wolf Blitzer noted Kennedy’s history of anti-vax activism and his embrace of conspiracy theories.

“Could this end up backfiring on Trump?” he asked Jennings.

Jennings said that most Kennedy voters will probably throw their support behind Trump. However, he added a caveat:

There could be some costs on the other side of the algebra. I mean, I’m old enough to remember when RFK was a liberal conspiracy theorist. Now, he’s more of a conservative conspiracy theorist. But the throughline is he’s a conspiracy theorist and a lot of people think he’s kind of a looney tune.

So, I would just caution the former president, be a little careful here. Don’t make any promises you can’t get out of because this guy, over the course of his career has been a, you know, a little bit– so, just careful.

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