Perhaps you've seen it. An unfortunate video buzzing around the internet of a grown shirtless man performing push-ups in order to prepare for an event that is not going to happen.
If you haven't, that man is Robert F. Kennedy Jr.; the nonexistent event is a debate with President Joe Biden. (Incumbent presidents tend to skip primary debates, and the Democratic National Committee has already endorsed Biden.) Nevertheless, RFK Jr. has supplied voters with workout clips paired with diatribes against vaccines that seem to insist that Americans are out of shape and need his leadership.
Yes, I wish I could tell you that we can all ignore this buffoon. After all, this is an individual who exercises in jeans. But as my colleague Kiera Butler explains in a great feature today, RFK Jr. has already gained far more support than anyone expected, and Kennedy's strange candidacy could spell problems for Biden down the road. So who exactly wants any of this? Kiera takes a look at the very rich men cheering Kennedy on, including the guy who invented the computer mouse, as well as the dude who created LimeWire.
I urge you to read Kiera's piece here, where she uncovers a curious thread between some of these Kennedy fans. Because while it's fun to mock the guy who sort of completes 10 push-ups in jeans, it isn't so easy to shake off the small dread that comes with knowing that this circus has the power to cause some serious—and very annoying—trouble for people who prefer not to have Donald Trump in the White House again.
—Inae Oh