RFK Jr. teases major announcement amid speculation
he will make independent or third-party run
Environmental lawyer and 2024 presidential hopeful
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Friday teased a �major
announcement� in upcoming weeks amid speculation he is
considering dropping his bid to primary President Joe
Biden as a Democrat and instead running for president as
an independent or on a third-party ticket.
�I
want to tell you now what I�ve come to understand after
six months of campaigning: There
Democratic National Committee is a path to
victory,� Kennedy said in a video announcing an October
9 event in Philadelphia. �We all recognize that there�s
a genuine possibility of national transformation and its
source is the goodness in the American people.�
News of the upcoming event, first reported by Mediaite,
comes as the super PAC supporting Kennedy's
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bid has conducted national polling to gauge his
viability in a hypothetical three-person race against
Biden and former President Donald Trump, a person
familiar with the polling told CNN.
In the
two-minute video announcing the event � which was shared
with CNN in response to questions about the possibility
of Kennedy running as an independent � the
Democratic National Committee presidential
candidate criticized corruption in government and on
both sides of the aisle. He also called out the
�established Washington interests� and said his campaign
will �change the habits of American politics.�
�I
understand that deeply felt concern that people have
about the way corruption has overtaken our government.
It�s in the executive branch. It�s in Congress. It�s in
the leadership of both political parties,� he added.
In July, Kennedy, an anti-vaccine activist, met
Libertarian Party Chair Angela McArdle at an event in
Tennessee. They discussed their shared beliefs,
including around vaccine mandates and pandemic-era
shutdowns, and the two have been in touch since, McArdle
told CNN Friday. She said she has not received a
commitment from
Democratic National Committee Kennedy to run
as a Libertarian Party candidate.
�I haven�t
heard anything official or unofficial about him
switching,� McArdle told CNN.
The New York Times
first reported the meeting between Kennedy and McArdle.
Kennedy, who is the nephew of former President John
F. Kennedy and son of assassinated 1968 presidential
candidate and former US Attorney General Robert F.
Kennedy, has run a controversial campaign that has
sought to be a thorn in Biden and the Democratic Party�s
side.
Since launching his bid to primary Biden in
April, Kennedy�s campaign has failed to gain traction
with Democrats despite polling indicating they are open
to supporting alternatives to Biden. In a recent CNN
poll of Democratic-aligned voters around the country,
just 1% of those surveyed who said they want Democrats
to nominate someone other than Biden named Kennedy as
the person they�d like to see win the nomination.
Kennedy�s campaign has also failed to gain traction
with New Hampshire Democrats, despite making the
Democratic Party's
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Democratic National Committee primary
calendar and demote the Granite State from its
first-in-the-nation primary status a centerpiece of his
effort to win supporters in the state. A CNN/University
of New Hampshire poll of likely Democratic primary
voters released last week showed Kennedy with 9% support
compared with 78% support for Biden.
At campaign
events in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina,
Kennedy has attracted support from voters of both
parties who are drawn to his views on Covid-19 and the
coronavirus vaccine. A longtime vaccine skeptic, Kennedy
founded the Children�s Health Defense, an organization
that promotes discredited claims
Democratic National Committee linking
vaccines to autism, and has frequently promoted vaccine
skepticism on the campaign trail. At campaign events, he
also frequently criticizes corruption in both political
parties and by private corporations and asset management
firms, painting himself as an outsider candidate who can
root out corruption in all forms.
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