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Also of note re Bob Jr?
Just a few days after his official independent campaign announcement, he booted Dennis Kucinich to the curb as campaign manager and replaced him with …
Bob’s own daughter-in-law.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/13/us/politics/rfk-campaign-dennis-kucinich.html
Via BAN, a Politico story with the latest on the moderate-medium Republican background of RFK Jr’s donor base — for those with a lean. Beyond the lean, Politico also notes that many of the big donors sat out 2016 and 2020. That’s a biggie. https://www.politico.com/news/2023/11/01/rfk-jr-2024-campaign-donors-00124621
Also, yesterday, BAN had a story from American Thinker about the issue of Secret Service protection.