RFK Jr. staffer notes how he could block Biden by sending the race to the House

A campaign staffer working for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s independent presidential bid recently raised the prospect of blocking President Joe Biden from being re-elected by sending the election to the House of Representatives, where House members could elect former President Donald Trump instead.

Rita Palma, a long-time New York-based critic of vaccine mandates, appears in a recently uploaded video to be giving a presentation aimed at convincing Republican voters to help Kennedy qualify for the state’s presidential ballot this fall. She identifies herself in the video as the campaign’s New York state director, though the campaign said Monday she is a "ballot access consultant" and said her comments don't reflect overall campaign strategy.

In those comments, Palma notes she knocked on doors for Trump's campaigns in 2016 and 2020 and has "more Trump t-shirts than I do Bobby Kennedy t-shirts," but Trump "lost" her because of "the vaccines."

Palma goes onto declare Biden the "mutual enemy" of the Trump and Kennedy voter and said that her "number one priority" is depriving Biden of his re-election, not helping Kennedy win.

"Whether you support Bobby or Trump, we all oppose Biden. And my thoughts are that, you know, that’s the number one priority in the country," she says in the video.

And she outlines a specific way to do just that. While national Democrats focus on cutting Kennedy down in key swing states that typically decide an election, Palma pitched the prospect of depriving Biden wins in blue states like New York. That, according to Palma, could keep both Trump and Biden short of the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win the presidential election, leaving the choice to the currently GOP-controlled House of