Rita Palma, a consultant for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s independent presidential bid, was axed from her role after video emerged of her suggesting his voters' No. 1 priority was taking down President Biden.
Roy Rochlin/Getty ImagesThe campaign for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. confirmed Thursday it’d cut ties with Rita Palma, a campaign staffer who last week urged GOP voters in New York to back Kennedy as a way to siphon away electoral votes from their “mutual enemy” Joe Biden—whose loss in November she claimed was her “number one priority.”A spokesperson for the campaign told The Daily Beast on Thursday that Palma wasn’t speaking on the behalf of Team Kennedy when she gave a 30-minute speech at a meeting
A person working for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s campaign recently raised the prospect of blocking Joe Biden from re-election by sending the campaign to the House.
Jonathan Drake/ReutersA top Robert F. Kennedy Jr. campaign official and longtime anti-vaxxer says her overarching goal is to ruin Joe Biden’s chances of winning reelection in November, telling a group of GOP voters that the current president is “our mutual enemy.”In a half-hour speech to the Empire State Republicans, Rita Palma, director of Kennedy’s New York State operation, shared her strategy for deep-sixing Biden’s run, describing his defeat as the “number one priority for me.”“Right now, th