It was a battle as ferocious as one might expect in a Hudson Valley farmer’s market. This Sunday, in Rhinebeck, New York, an octogenarian backer of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. squared off against a group of local Democrats, who were there in support of Kennedy’s octogenarian rival, Joe Biden.
The Democrats had permission to set up a table at the market. The Kennedy booster, 83-year-old Frank Stoppenbach, did not, but he decided to plant himself right next to them.
“When people came up, he talked to them about, you know, vaccines are bad, and masking is bad, and all the stuff that RFK says,” claimed Larry Cox, a member of the pro-Biden contingent. “The problem is that, being right next to us, people were thinking that he was part of us.”