Robert F Kennedy Jr said sorry to his family for a Super Bowl ad made by a group that supports him for president. The ad was similar to one his uncle, John F Kennedy, used in 1960.
Mr Kennedy, a lawyer who cares about the environment and doesn’t like vaccines, is running for president without belonging to any political party.
The commercial was shown right before the Super Bowl halftime on Sunday.
The ad showed pictures of Robert F Kennedy Jr added to the old 1960 ad.
A lively song that said the Kennedy name 15 times in 30 seconds played along with it.
The ad was created by a group called American Values 2024 that is involved in politics.
Super Pacs are groups that gather money to give to political campaigns. They can give as much money as they want to support politicians, but they can’t work together with the politicians’ campaigns.
The Super Bowl commercial cost $7 million, according to Tony Lyons, who is co-founder of American Values 2024. Tim Mellon gave $15 million to American Values 2024 Pac. Mellon gives a lot of money to groups that support Mr.
One of Mr. Kennedy’s family members spoke out against the advertisement and the candidate’s opposition to vaccines.
“My cousin used our uncle and my mom’s faces in a Super Bowl ad. ” She would be shocked by his dangerous ideas about healthcare,” Bobby Shriver, Eunice Kennedy Shriver’s son and President Kennedy’s sister, wrote on X. “She deeply believed in and supported science, vaccines, and fair access to healthcare. ”
RFK Jr said sorry if the Super Bowl ad upset anyone in his family. The American Values Super PAC made and showed the ad without my campaign’s permission. The law says Super PACs are not allowed to talk to me or my team. I care about all of you. May God give you his blessings.
However, the advertisement stayed at the top of the candidate’s X feed on Monday morning. Stefanie Spear, who speaks for the RFK Jr campaign, said they were happy and thankful that the American Values Pac ran an ad during the Super Bowl.
The original ad wanted to show that John F Kennedy was both young and experienced. President Kennedy, who was a Democrat, became the youngest president ever elected. In 1960, he was running against an experienced politician from the Republican side, who was the current Vice President, Richard Nixon.
The first version had a catchy song with lines that were repeated in the most recent Super Bowl ad: “Do you want a man to be president who has a lot of experience. A man who is old enough to have wisdom and young enough to take action. ”
Robert F Kennedy Jr is 70 years old, which is almost 30 years older than his uncle was in 1960. He is younger than Donald Trump, who is 77, and Joe Biden, who is 81. People worry about how old the two candidates are.
Even though people know who Mr. Kennedy is, he is much less popular than Mr. Biden and Mr. Trump in the polls. Studies show that about 10% of people support him.
Kyle Kondik, who studies politics at the University of Virginia, said that the ad was like many other Super Bowl ads, because it reminded people of the past.
“He said that redoing a political ad from the 1960s is very nostalgic. ”
“Mr Kondik said it’s important for third party candidates to get attention, and this is a major political story today. ” “He’s taking advantage of being an independent in a year when people don’t really like the two main party candidates. ” His family name is his only advantage.
Opinions are divided on whether Mr. Kennedy running for president will take votes from Mr. Biden or Mr. Trump, or bring in new voters who wouldn’t have voted for either major party.
On Friday, the Democratic Party leaders made a formal complaint to the government about RFK Jr’s campaign. They say that RFK Jr’s campaign is working too closely with another group called American Values 2024 to help him get on the ballot in all 50 states.
On Sunday, a spokesperson from the Democratic Party said that Mr. Kennedy is just someone who supports Trump in this election.
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Robert F Kennedy Jr. apologises to his family for Super Bowl commercial
