Good message, 'bad messenger': Progressives laud food reform talk, remain skeptical of RFK

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : "At the end of the day, if Mr. Kennedy is confirmed, he would work for Trump," King says.
56% : "And if we know anything about Trump, it's that he demands complete loyalty from his underlings.
55% : "There might be support for Kennedy for much the same reason there's support for Trump, deCoriolis posits: a sense that the system isn't working, and rather than tweaking it gently, a full blowup would be better at this point.
34% : "Of the 15% of registered voters who backed Kennedy before he dropped out of the presidential race, most shifted their support to Vice President Kamala Harris instead of Trump, by a 2-1 ratio.
22% : (Trump himself called Kennedy a "Radical Left Lunatic" on Truth Social in April.)
22% : And while folks like Carter point out that Trump endeared himself to farmers and ranchers by showing up at the American Farm Bureau convention during his first term, King says Food & Water Watch is not expecting much from his second term, Kennedy or not.

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