- “I can argue that President Biden is a much worse threat to democracy,” he told CNN’s Erin Burnett.
- Kennedy argued that his supporters would not tilt the election towards Trump
- He acknowledged that some family members did not support his campaign
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Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy argued Monday that President Joe Biden was a greater threat to democracy than former President Donald J. Trump, challenging a key narrative of Democrats in the 2024 elections.
Kennedy discussed her independent run for president with CNN’s Erin Burnett, a rare prime time opportunity for the candidate who continues to track interest from voters unhappy with the choices of President Joe Biden or former President Donald Trump for president.
“I can argue that President Biden is the far worse threat to democracy, and the reason is that President Biden is the first candidate in history, the first president in history to have used federal agencies to censor political speech, so to speak. censure his opponent,” he said.
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks during a campaign rally
He acknowledged that Trump’s efforts to overturn the election were a threat to democracy and “appalling,” but that Biden’s attempts to censure his political opponents were much worse.
‘The biggest threat to democracy is not someone who questions the election results, but a president of the United States who used the power of his office to force the social media companies, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, to open a portal and give access to that portal. to the FBI, to the CIA, to the IRS… to censor their political critics,’ Kennedy said.
In the end, Kennedy revised his claims that both the 2000 and 2004 elections were “stolen” and that it was wrong to demonize people who questioned the election results.
‘People who say the election is stolen… we shouldn’t make those people outcasts. We shouldn’t demonize them. We should not vilify them. What we should do is say: let’s all come together, Republicans and Democrats, and fix the electoral system,” he said.
Burnett played a CNN interview by Kennedy’s sister, Rory Kennedy, asking her to respond to her concerns that Kennedy would undermine Biden’s re-election campaign.
He also played a clip of John F. Kennedy’s grandson, Jack Schlossberg, who called Robert F. Kennedy “a disgrace” in an Instagram video in July.
Kennedy responded to family members who opposed his decision to run as an independent candidate.
Jack Schlossberg endorses President Joe Biden for his grandfather Robert F. Kennedy’s candidacy in an Instagram post, calling his candidacy a “disgrace” to the family.
A recent DailyMail.com/JL Partners poll shows Kennedy attracting nine percent of Biden supporters who voted for him in 2020.
Kennedy acknowledged that some of his family members did not support his presidential campaign, but said that was normal.
“I have a large family, about 105 cousins last time we counted,” Kennedy said. “I have a great family. I don’t know anyone in America who has a family that agrees with him on everything.”
He said he would continue to love and appreciate his family members, even those who actively spoke out against him.
‘We could disagree on issues, and we could disagree on passion and information, but we still loved each other. And I love Rory. I love my family. I feel loved by them,’ he stated.
Kennedy also noted that her daughter-in-law was running her political campaign and that her cousin Anthony Shriver was also working for her campaign.
Former President Donald Trump has praised Kennedy in the past but describes him as a radical leftist.
Democrats worry Kennedy will take away votes from President Biden in nearby swing states
Kennedy disputed the argument that his presence in the race would only help Trump win, claiming that voters who supported him were already deterred from voting in the first place.
He said he was running an ideals-based populist campaign that was not intended to demonize the opposing candidate but rather to try to address some of the toughest issues facing Americans.
‘I don’t believe that either President Trump or President Biden are going to solve the debt crisis in this country, which is existential. “I don’t think any of them are going to get us out of foreign wars, out of this addiction we have to eternal wars,” he stated.