A Fox News contributor suggested Thursday that Republicans might be making a mistake by inviting Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to a House hearing on “weaponization” of the federal government. “It’s about a very serious issue, the hearing … but what we will have is Democrats attacking the witness.”York later said Republicans could be misreading support for Kennedy. “I think some of the support you see for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in the Democratic party is not Democrats who want to see him be president, but for Democrats who are sending a message: We want another candidate,” he added. “So I think Republicans may have misread some of RFK’s support.”More on RFK Jr. from The HillKennedy is a longtime anti-vaccine activist who filed paperwork in April to run for president as a Democrat. He is polling well behind President Biden and has most recently sparked backlash with offensive comments suggesting the coronavirus was engineered to avoid infecting Chinese and Jewish people.

Source: Fox News July 20, 2023 14:00 UTC