The Kennedy family disavowed a campaign ad from Robert Kennedy Jr. that ran during the Super Bowl Sunday.
The ad, created and ran by American Values Super PAC, splices images of Kennedy Jr. into an ad that is similar to the ” Kennedy for Me ” ad the Kennedy campaign ran in 1960.
“My cousin’s Super Bowl ad used our uncle’s faces- and my Mother’s. She would be appalled by his deadly health care views,” Bobby Shriver, the son of Eunice Kennedy Shriver, said on X, formerly Twitter.
The ad is the pinned tweet on Kennedy’s X profile as of Monday afternoon. The ad cost $7 million to run, according to a statement by American Values.
Kennedy, who is a long-time anti-vaccine activist and has been caught making antisemitic statements , apologized on X saying, “I’m so sorry if the Super Bowl advertisement caused anyone in my family pain. The ad was created and aired by the American Values Super PAC without any involvement or approval from my campaign.”