Musk will interview Kennedy, the 69-year-old nephew of US President John F. Kennedy. Photo: Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images
Elon Musk courts another US presidential candidate in Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a well-known anti-vaccination activist, just weeks after Ron DeSantis launched his Twitter car crash campaign .
Tesla's chief executive will interview Mr. Kennedy, the 69-year-old nephew of US President John F. Kennedy, in a live Twitter Space interview later Monday.
They are expected to discuss Mr. Kennedy's bid for the 2024 U.S. Democratic nomination, first announced in April.
This follows Mr. DeSantis announcing his candidacy for the 2024 United States nomination Republicans on Twitter last month, a live stream that was rife with glitches and awkward silences.
The launch was held with Mr. Musk and host David Sacks, who said the hiccups were caused by the sheer number of people who are configured and “melt servers”.
Mr. Musk personally invited Mr. Kennedy to attend a similar live video platform event last week. .
In response to Kennedy's complaint that his team was immediately banned from Twitter for 180 days for signing up using his campaign email addresses, Musk wrote: “Would you like to have a Spaces discussion with me next week ?”
Interesting…when we use the TeamKennedy email address to create @instagram accounts, we are automatically blocked for 180 days. Can anyone suggest why this is happening? pic.twitter.com/0G8oRnoXTv
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (@RobertKennedyJr), June 2, 2023
Twitter founder Jack Dorsey also publicly endorsed Mr. Kennedy.
“He can and will,” Mr. Dorsey tweeted, along with a video in which Mr. Kennedy claims he can beat Donald Trump if the latter secures the 2024 Republican nomination.
When asked by a user whether the tweet was a formal endorsement or a prediction, Mr. Dorsey replied, “Both.”
He can and will https://t.co/zrKLc2BKhz
— Jack (@jack) June 4, 2023
Other big tech bosses have reinstated suspended accounts Kennedy on social media despite the would-be Democratic nominee having posted against vaccines in the past.
Earlier this week, Mr. Kennedy lifted the block from Instagram. “Because he is now an active candidate for President of the United States, we have restored access to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Instagram account,” Meta spokesman Andy Stone told the Washington Post.
Mr. Kennedy previously said, that Joe Biden's top public health adviser, Anthony Fauci, orchestrated “fascism” during the pandemic.
Recent polls show a fifth of Democrats support challenging the son of the former U.S. Attorney General.
While Kennedy has little hope of toppling Joe Biden, up to 20% of Democrats say they are willing to vote for someone other than the 80-year-old incumbent.
Long-standing concerns about Mr. Biden's health on Biden were linked to the President's age, which again became public
Mr. Kennedy was banned from Instagram in February 2021 for “repeatedly spreading debunked claims about the coronavirus or vaccines,” according to a company spokesman at the time. time.
The Democratic environmental lawyer, whose father was killed by a pro-Palestinian terrorist during his own 1968 presidential campaign, openly opposed Covid-19 vaccines and the medical establishment during the pandemic years.
< p>He described Anthony Fauci, President Biden's chief medical adviser during the pandemic, as a “military response to the public health crisis” and accused him of “catastrophically mismanaging” the U.S. medical response to Covid-19.
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