After Brain Worm Revelation, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Struggles To Raise Money For His Presidential Campaign

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is struggling to raise money for his campaign.

If a presidential campaign does not generate massive amounts of small-dollar donations, a candidate is forced to rely on high-dollar donors who immediately reach the legal maximum contribution threshold for a federal election.

However, despite all the publicity Kennedy garnered and the uncommonly high showing for a third-party candidate in national polling, he has yet to excite those small-dollar donors into donating to his campaign.

After the independent presidential candidate chose wealthy attorney Nicole Shanahan as his running mate, she donated $10 million to the campaign.

The polling picture has stayed very stable throughout. According to the RealClearPolitics polling average, in a five-way race, Kennedy is polling in third place at 9%, the same position he was in February.

Kennedy might have peaked too early with his inactive fundraising and flat polling numbers. A similar problem harmed most other third-party candidates who garnered great buzz in past election years: suddenly high polling that flops as Election Day approaches.

Back in early May, Kennedy revealed a series of health problem he has endured in recent years, such as his severe memory loss and mental fog in 2010. 

After a brain scan, a New York doctor suggested that his health problems could be connected to a worm that entered his brain and ate a portion of it before dying. 

In a deposition connected to his divorce from his second wife, Mary Richardson Kennedy, in 2012, Kennedy shared that these cognitive problems had negatively affected his earning potential.

In that same period, Kennedy also suffered from mercury poisoning, a condition associated with neurological symptoms like peripheral vision loss, muscle weakness, movement difficulties, hearing and speech impairment, and memory loss. Because Kennedy recovered from the memory loss and brain fog, the parasite did not need any treatment. 

During a late May event for the president, Kennedy’s young sister, Kerry Kennedy, led the effort against her brother’s presidential campaign.