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In leaked phone call, Trump tries to coax RFK Jr. into his camp

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    10% Center

  • Reliability

    30% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -37% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

84% : "Then Trump pivoted to an apparent effort to win his support: "I would love you to do something.
84% : "It was very nice, actually," Trump said.
38% : "I want to do small doses," Trump said, before observing that the practice of giving multiple vaccinations at once means the shot "looks like it's meant for a horse, not uh, you know, a 10-pound or 20-pound baby.
38% : "And then you see the baby all of a sudden starting to change radically, I've seen it too many times," Trump said.
37% : Throughout the video, Kennedy says little else.Trump also briefly described his recent call with President Joe Biden and said he had asked about the near miss of the bullet in Pennsylvania.
34% : "He called me, and he said, 'How did you choose to move to the right?'"Trump marveled that he had been shot by an AR-15-type weapon, the sort of military-style rifle Biden wants to ban -- "pretty tough guns, right?"Of the wound to his ear, Trump said: "It felt like the world's largest mosquito.
31% : "Over Kennedy's speaker phone, Trump, the Republican nominee, can first be heard describing scientifically baseless concerns about vaccinations -- an issue Kennedy is closely associated with -- expressing disbelief at the volume of vaccinations given to infants.
29% : Here's Trump giving his real opinion to my dad about vaccinating kids."
28% : The younger Kennedy criticized Trump for his vice-presidential pick and said he wanted to expose his "real opinion" on vaccinations.
23% : On Monday, Trump and Kennedy met in person in Milwaukee before the Republican National Convention, which stirred rumors that Kennedy was planning to drop out of the race and endorse Trump.
21% : MILWAUKEE -- A leaked video of a phone call between former President Donald Trump and independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on the day after the attempted assassination of Trump offered a behind-the-scenes look into the former president's efforts to coax Kennedy out of the race and into his camp.
5% : The video provides a glimpse of the private relationship between Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who have long been friendly, though Trump has publicly criticized Kennedy during the campaign.

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