Longshot Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday deleted a Twitter post that featured an apparently altered stock image of a woman on a Russian street wearing a “Kennedy 2024” sweater.
“Join the movement to save our nation!” Kennedy wrote in the tweet, which showed the woman clad in campaign merchandise walking past several storefronts displaying Cyrillic signage.
“Get the incredible Kennedy Collection today and proudly stand with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Every purchase fuels his fight for our families and a brighter future. Let’s unite America,” the scion of the famed US political family added.
Internet sleuths traced the location of the woman in the photo to a street in the southwestern Russian city of Krasnodar.
It also appears that the image was modified from its original version, which showed the woman wearing a black sweater with the word “Fika?” on it – the Swedish word for “coffee break” – rather than the white “Kennedy 2024” sweater.
The Kennedy Jr. campaign did not respond to The Post’s request for comment.
Minutes after deleting the tweet, RFK Jr., posted another tweet linking to the campaign’s merchandise store but with a different image.
Kennedy Jr. is hoping to dethrone President Biden as the Democratic Party’s standard bearer in the 2024 presidential election.
He is trailing the 80-year-old incumbent by a margin of 62% to 15% among Democratic voters in a recent Harvard CAPS-Harris Poll.
The nephew of President John F. Kennedy and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, both assassinated in the 60s, Kennedy Jr. is one of two Democratic primary challengers to Biden alongside self-help author and spiritual guru Marianne Williamson.
