I’m writing in as a concerned citizen, worried by the lack of knowledge in our community about the Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. campaign for the presidency in the General Election this November. RFK Jr. is polling fairly consistently in the 20-25 percent range in polls that are truly legitimate in their polling methodologies. There was even a recent poll taken on X, by @Political_Polls, that showed RFK Jr at 36 percent, with over 300,000 respondents (Trump won 50 percent and Harris won 12 percent). All of this was in spite of the fact that the major media outlets will not talk about him, or let him on screen for live interviews, out of fear of further legitimizing him. When they do let him on, they immediately try smearing him and publicly character-assassinating him. Because of this, nearly half of Americans don’t even know he’s running for office (which is astounding, given how he is polling).

Kennedy is running on a platform that sets him apart from his competitors.

He wants to make housing more affordable by getting large corporations out of the single-family home market, and offering a first-time homebuyers loan program that is funded by the very home-buyers that would benefit.

He has said he plans to stop sending money and American soldiers overseas, reduce the military budget by 50 percent and stop propping up military conflicts across the globe. The U.S. military has more than 800 bases globally and spends over $950 billion a year. RFK proposes cutting that to $500 billion and closing all of our international bases to bring all of our troops home to “arm ourselves to the teeth at home, and make ourselves too expensive to ever invade.”

He has committed to legalize marijuana and, eventually, psychedelics, so the federal government can tax their sale and use the money to fund wellness and healing farms across the country to deal with the addiction problem plaguing our nation.

He believes that we should close and strengthen the border to stop illegal immigration, but establish a process to make legal immigration/cititzenship faster and easier. This will protect the American tax payer and the immigrants.

He plans to study American health, diet and chemical exposure in order to make Americans healthy again, eliminate chronic disease and provide enough scientific evidence for polluters to be held accountable.

He intends to stabilize the U.S. dollar using crypto currency, gold, silver and other commodities, in order to reduce inflation to make living more affordable for everyone, from our young adults to our oldest seniors.

The Kennedy campaign has well over 100,000 volunteers nationwide. It has collected over one million signatures for ballot access and will not go quietly or without a fight. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. stands for honesty, integrity, transparency and prolonging the American dream. His vice presidential running mate, Nicole Shanahan, offers more of the same from a younger perspective (38 years old) and a progressively-increasing Libertarian/freedom-centric worldview, with legendary Ron Paul as her mentor.

The Kennedy/Shanahan 2024 presidential ticket will be on the ballot, and has already collected the signatures to do so. They just need people to believe they can win. Because they can.

As RFK Jr. recently said, “Give me a sword, and some ground to stand on, and I will give your country back to you.”

Thank you and vote Independent this November!

Bobby Ayers, of Hedgesville