RFK Jr. Axes Campaign Staffer Who Said Her ‘No. 1’ Priority Was Stopping Biden

The 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 of the Empire State Republicans last week—and suggested that Palma had misrepresented her role with the insurgent independent’s presidential campaign when she said she was the director of Kennedy’s operation in New York.

In reality, the campaign’s press secretary, Stefanie Spear, said Palma was hired to be “a ballot access consultant responsible for scheduling volunteer shifts for our upcoming signature collection drive” in New York, Spear said.

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