This piece was co-authored with Stephen Kent.

The presidential bid of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ended where skeptics assumed it would, with a full-fledged endorsement of Donald Trump for president, setting off a battle by Kennedy to get his name removed from the ballot in battleground states such as Michigan, Wisconsin, and North Carolina. The universes of two political giants from opposite ends of the spectrum are merging, and speculation is growing that RFK could serve a role in a future Trump administration related to public health. At the least, Trump says RFK will be “very much involved” in matters related to “chronic health problems and childhood diseases.”

While some have backhandedly called this a political “marriage made in heaven” and said these two men are perfect for each other, they are worlds apart on the policies that matter most to RFK. It just happens they share a rising voter base that we’ll call the Dale Gribble voter, coined by Richard Hanania of the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology.

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