How Do RFK Jr. Supporters Feel About His VP Pick? Michael Kosta Investigates | The Daily Show 

The Daily Shows doesn't punch up, it punches down on behalf of the most powerful people in the world.

Dumb reasons= the health of the American people. That’s us, folks!!

Sad to see Daily show putting this vibe out toward RFK jr trying to making him seem not legitimate. Hes the most genuine candidate by far

This little hit job is pathetic. They need to give him a uncut interview

It's sad we live in a country that mocks an attempt to give people more choice. Whether you like or dislike RFK Jr., more choice is beneficial for everyone.

These people seemed normal when compared to Trump fans, just the fact that they didn't have a strong opinion on someone they don't know and felt they needed to read up on, feels quite refreshing.

RFK the only candidate without billionaire lobbyists and megacorps in his corner. Why pick on him?

Honestly, I respect them for not pretending to know. It's nice to see people being humble, it's a nice change of pace.

His supporters sound thoughtful, intelligent and kind. A very different crowd from the maga crowd.

Healthy soil and regenerative agriculture. Well, not against that.

I respect them for their neutral response to the pick. They didn't blindly support it, blindly hate it, they just admitted they didn't know how to feel.

Why is she being minimalized? I read she was a fellow for Stanford Law School and is an attorney.

He picked a vp that shares his values. Who cares if she is an unknown. We don’t need more entrenched politicians.

Vote RFK Jr 2024! We're going to win this and get this country back on track!!

Shout out to the dude in the gray vest though. These segments are designed to make people look and and sound dumb, and dude answered every question rationally and admitted he didn't know what he didn't know.

Yeah let’s make fun of the guy trying to bring people together

Well, to be fair, his reasons for his VP pick, which is more or less to make America healthier, is a lot more rationale than literally anything trump has ever said about anything, ever.

Jokes aside, our food quality and our health crisis are directly linked. The angle he was going for is being a proponent of increasing our phyaical wellness, which I think is something we can all get behind

Interesting to contrast this RFK Jr crowd with the Trump rally crowds. I kept hearing them say things like "I don't know" with a willingness to openly question the party, and less of the blindly confident anger with unflinching obedience to whatever creative narrative is necessary to make Trump seem almost infallible. I'm not at all convinced by the conspiracy theory arguments RFK Jr, but when I've talked to friends who believe these things, it becomes pretty clear that they actually know what that means and actually, literally, read research and arguments for their position. My Trump supporting friends, on the other hand, have a very short fuse if you question what they believe and it's clear that their idea of 'research' is mostly listening to Trump propaganda peddlers.

Still waiting for Jon Stewart to interview RFK Jr. Live and uncut of course

Okay, as much as I may not agree with them, I do have to appreciate how willing a lot of them were to say that they don't know rather than rambling about something they know nothing about

I pay a lot of attention to the RFKJ campaign - and defend his right to try to get ballot access. The more I thought about his VP choice, the more on board I got. A young, female, China-astute, AI techie may be exactly what this country needs to help us through the fog that is our future. I am looking forward to hearing more from her and about her.

I wasn't even voting for RFK, but this segment made him and his supporters seem more likeable and I wanna know more about him

A campaign on improving the health of Americans isn’t a bad idea. These are pretty normal people at this rally.

philanthropy is just being rich enough to decide where your tax dollars would have gone had you paid any

This may say something about the bar being low, But at least a lot of these people had doubt and would admit when they didn't know something... Is my different energy from the trump rallies for sure.

The health crisis in America is real, it has been ignored and played down but the numbers don’t lie. My patients are getting younger and younger with onset of chronic diseases and life changing strokes. We should all want to get to the bottom as to what is causing this and how can we help our people defy this premature debilitating disease process.

I like the idea of implementing fitness into American lifestyles not bad honestly

I dont get the RFK hate. What did he say that was so wrong? He wants America to be healthy. I'm all for jokes but this was pretty lame.

Why isn't this show ever discussing RFK Jr's policies? Probably the same reason why most mainstream media news networks aren't.. because if the American people actually heard what this man stands for, they would definitely vote for him. RFK Jr. 2024!!!

The more mainstream media bashes him the more I want to vote for him.

So she thinks money is to help the needy, that soil maintenance matters, and she's young/healthy? I don't see the problem with those - the rest of what she said in her speech was cut out to make her look bad, and that doesn't look bad...

To be fair, regenerative farming is a real thing, and it is just as important to climate as reducing the use of fossil fuels. Hopefully the association with the nutters won't discredit it. Example; A former presidential candidate (John Edwards) pointed out the most important problem of our time; The Global Market Race to the Bottom. This has been ignored because of its association with his failures as a person. This issue is at the root of exploitation, oppression and ultimately conflict. It needs to be addressed through consistent incentive based economic policies. Then the question becomes, will this happen if we give-up democracy?

“Aaron Rogers is the only one with experience… the Joe Rogan Experience” 😂 Underrated joke

You have to admit, RFK's supporters are WAY more reflected than people at "other rallys"! They actually think about their answers and the answers shown here were rather normal. Even the conspiracy theorists and anti-vaccine-people seemed down to earth and wanted people "to look into things. That is way WAY different than people blindly and fully beleaving in something inredibly wrong. This would surely be my 2. choice after the nice old man and before the self-absorbed old man.

He seems actually more reasonable than I thought. Maybe time to support a 3rd party instead of the same old red vs blue fog

That's gonna be one wild VP debate between Kamala, that chick who isn't Aaron Rogers, and Ivanka.

Didn't feel fair to mock people for not having an opinion on her yet. That's a rational response to a pick that they don't know.

It's actually not a bad move to pick an unknown so people will try and find out more about her. If he had picked someone like Aaron Rogers, well, that's the end of that.

It is still insane to me that RFK Jr.'s wife is Cheryl from Curb Your Enthusiasm

Let them debate. Then we’ll see who wins.

at least there saying "IDK" and questioning decisions rather than following with blind faith.

WATCH RFK JR SPEAK IN FULL FORM. Judge for yourself. How long until we all see what is really just propaganda? This is really important- for all of us

President John Kennedy ran on a healthy America. I remember being in school and this being talked about by the teachers and giving more attention to our physical activities programs in school. Rfk jr.s choice for vice president has some great qualities regarding health, I think they're going to need a lot more than that.

It’s a bit sad to see regenerative agriculture and soil health being added to a segment played for laughs because those are actually very important environmental issues. Anyone could bring up valid concerns and there should be more attention paid to the spin those are given when lumped with lesser (read: worthy of some mockery, maybe) issues like softball prowess

What he said sounded reasonable. I dont know the more I hear from RFK in terms of environmental causes the more I like

I'm with RFK Jr. I don't see what he's done to be talked down to like this. Hes so much more coherent than Biden and 100x smarter than Trump. RFJ gets my vote.

I give a lot of credit to the Daily Show viewers commenting showing respect. A lot of people are really waking up to how the media spins. I was there and I saw this guy. He was friendly and trying really hard to trip people up. Didn’t know he was with the Daily Show, makes sense now 😂 Fact is, this is part of the political process 🤷 I’d love the Daily Show to have the courage to have RFK on. I am absolutely certain he’d bring a lot of viewers in to voting on him by listening. No doubt.

Aren't comedians supposed to challenge power centers instead of working for them?

Weirdly sus how many people won’t be open minded about RFK (which doesn’t mean you have to like him*) it’s such a let down when “intellectuals” / “forward thinkers” mimic the ignorance of who they judge.

I don't think you portrayed them as dumb as you think you did.

Regenerative agriculture and soil health sounds absurd but it is the root of so many issues and causes for the US being the sickest and fattest people in the world and with the most expensive health care.

I have no problem with this Kennedy guy…

As someone who might vote for rfk jr; im glad he picked not aaron rodgers as his vp and his supporters were humbled

I want a surfer president. Then we might have a president who cares about water.

I implore anyone who is open to it to listen to a long form interview with RFK Jr. He comes across to me as incredibly authentic, intelligent, knowledgeable, respectful, reasonable, open-minded, nuanced, honest… I could go on. I’ve never seen someone so mischaracterized in my life. As for his VP pick, I can think of no more important purpose than healing people. Of COURSE our food supply is a major problem - I don’t see how anyone could argue against that - and no politician is addressing it with the attention it deserves. Further, her being immersed in technology would be an asset. I don’t think there’s any recent VP - or politician for that matter - in a better place to help navigate the upcoming technology / AI revolution, which is likely to be the most significant issue of our time. Either way, before you slander him, at least listen to him for an hour or two, as opposed to simply going off the headlines. Edit: and just stop with the flat earth Bigfoot fake moon landing stuff - he’s never said anything of the sort. I think it’s just a bit more reasonable to be concerned with vaccine safety than to believe the earth is flat. And there is so much more to him than the vaccine stuff. I will absolutely be voting for him, donating, supporting the cause. And at least, I am inspired to take better charge of my health as a result of his campaign. Either way, peace and wellbeing to you - we’re all in this together and will get through this, whoever happens to be in the White House.

I’m in Oakland. Thank you weirdos for bringing money to our town. At least this presidential candidate pays for his rallies. He doesn’t stiff the cities like Cheeto Don

Improving the health of Americans? What a terrible idea

America needs a third party.

Yeah, heaven forbid you get someone that you have never heard of that isn't geriatric and isn't a career politician. All of the ones that we have are doing such a great job. Let's just keep doing the same thing over and over. Yay!

Wow. That one guy was IN Oakland, probably lives there, cares enough about politics to attend a campaign event, and, when tasked to name a black female politician, completely blanked instead of immediately naming Barbara Lee. That's awe-inspiring.

PURE EVIL: Giving money to the needy, healthy food, Cure chronic disease. Yuck

Not amusing. She is super smart.

I love you guys but I honestly support RFK Jr

rfk jr seems much more sane than thevtwo mainstream candidates. The issues he mentions are very important.

This is what happens when you turn politics into a popularity / conspiracy theory contest

Making jokes about someone valuing the importance of a healthy society is just embarrassing. This is a total hit piece. Even trying to downplay Nicole’s achievements by saying she didn’t get into college for being smart. It’s sad an embarrassing what US media has turned into. Quick reminder, Lincoln was 3rd party.

I'm voting for RFK,Jr. instead of against someone

I honestly believe there are many more Republican voters for RFK Jughead Jr. than Dems and this will only hurt The Republican nominee.

In his own weird and unintentional way RFK Jr is doing it for Democrats by getting some Trump voters to vote for him.

“For much dumber reasons,” and then shows a clip of RFK making some of the most salient points of things to fix that any presidential candidate has in years

The jokes don’t make much sense if you actually listen to what RFK jr has to say.

Voting for RFK or no one. I know I have major issues with the other two. I’ve voted democrat since Gore.

So why did Biden pick Kamala?

Pointless way to discredit RFK and his supporters.

Nicole Shanahan is smart, caring, successful and accomplished and has her eyes open. I like RFK Jr's VP pick.

As an RFK jr supporter, I loved how it was clearly harder to get a ton of footage where the people being interviewed look extra dumb/crazy.

Why are you threatened by an independent candidate?

Kennedy 2024

Mike pence, Harris…. Those were top notch VP selections 😂🎉.

I'm not voting for someone in a nursing home or jail, so RFK is all that's left.🤨 Glad that corporate media America is going after RFK, maybe that says something??

There’s nothing wrong with working to improve peoples health. Mocking that kinda fell flat to me.

"he also picked her for much dumber reasons" - proceeds to show reasons that would be considered reasonable by any perfectly sane person

Googled…..”The bulk of the nation’s lead pipe infrastructure is concentrated in a handful of states, including many of the Rust Belt states in the Great Lakes region. Florida has the most lead service lines in the country, with its 1.16 million lines accounting for 12.6% of the country’s total. Over 50% of the national service lines are concentrated in six states: Florida, Illinois (11.4%), Ohio (8.1%), Pennsylvania (7.5%), Texas (7.1%) and New York (5.4%).” This makes sence.

I like his message about healthy foods and soils, and about healthy bodies and preventing disease that way. I don't understand why this is funny. I thought I was watching the Daily Show, not Fox News.

America does need to be healthier

I'll take RFK jr and Shanahan over the two party clowns we have now!

Those supporters were smarter than the interviewers

4:17 Tell me your husband never did it for you, without telling us your husband never did it for you.

RFC speaks the truth about the corruption that is going on.

Surfing helps build courage,confidence,patience and comradery. Out of any sport or art form, surfing is the most helpful for a vice presidency. RFK was instrumental in the removal of mercury from vaccines. He deserves more credit.

I'm trying hard to recall surfing opportunities in Oakland.

That old lady made me really sad for her

This video makes no sense. If you truly believe he can’t win then why discredit him?

RFK Jr does amazing work on clean water issues. Sadly he has digressed to being the best chance for trump. It will certainly be tragic if he is the reason trump waddles into the White House once again. RFK Jr's choice to not criticize trump in order to pander to trumps supporters is enough bad judgement for me to never vote him. Of course, RFK Jr's buffoonery on vaccines was always enough to dismiss him for any public office.

The Lion (Biden), The Witch (Trump) and the Wardrobe (RFK Jr.)

Poor RFKJ supporters got Shanahanded.

Michael Kosta is so quick witted and hilarious. Love him.

There's a great video you can search for on Comedy Central where Jon interviews RFK Jr years ago and Jon is so respectful to him even when talking about mercury in vaccines. That was before questioning pharma was deemed off limits for a democrat.

the uniparty is so scared of RFK, lol.