Former independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently sounded off on Vice President Kamala Harris and the Democratic National Convention in a powerful speech he delivered after suspending his campaign. On Friday, Kennedy dropped out of the race and endorsed former President Donald Trump, who introduced him at a rally in Arizona.
Kennedy noted that dropping out of the race was not an easy decision. “I’ve made the heart-wrenching decision to suspend my campaign and to support President Trump. This decision is agonizing for me because of the difficulties it causes me, and my children and my friends,” he said. The independent continued, “In an honest system, I believe I would have won the election. I no longer believe that I have a realistic past of electoral victory in the face of this relentless, systematic censorship and media control.”
After canceling his presidential bid, RFK Jr. asked swing states to pull his name from their ballots as he does not want to be a “spoiler” for Trump. However, Kennedy will reportedly remain on the ballot in states that are definitively “red” or “blue.” He added, “If you live in a blue state, you can vote for me without harming or helping President Trump or Vice President Harris. In red states, the same will apply.”
Kennedy also criticized the DNC for the “legal warfare” that he and former President Trump have had to endure in their campaign efforts. RFK Jr. explained the arduous process required just for him to appear on the ballot, and the Democratic Party waged an aggressive legal battle to combat his campaign’s work.
“The DNC waged continual legal warfare against both President Trump and myself,” he proclaimed. “Each time that our volunteers turned in those towering boxes of signatures needed to get on the ballot, the DNC dragged us into court, state after state, attempting to erase their work and disappear with the will of the voters, which signed those petitions.”
RFK Jr. continued describing the mountain of legal battles that have been used to thwart him and Trump. Kennedy’s and Trump’s experience make up the conservative criticism against the federal government in which Democrats have allegedly weaponized the justice system against the opposition candidates. “It deployed DNC-aligned judges to throw me and other candidates off the ballot, and to throw President Trump in jail,” he continued.
Kennedy also slammed the DNC and Vice President Harris for “engineering” her support when the campaign only relies on bashing Trump. “Instead of showing us her substance and character and its media organs engineered a surge of popularity for Vice President Harris based upon nothing, no policies, no interviews, no debates, only smoke and mirrors,” he said.
Watch Kennedy below:
Introducing Kennedy at his rally in Arizona, Trump said, “Tonight, I am very pleased to welcome a man who has been an incredible champion for so many of these values we all share. For the past 16 months, Robert F. Kennedy Junior has run an extraordinary campaign for president of the United States. Had he been allowed to enter the Democrat primary, he would have beaten Joe Biden. His candidacy has inspired millions of Americans, raised critical issues that have been too-long ignored, and brought together people from across the political spectrum in a positive campaign grounded in the American values of his father, Robert Kennedy, and his uncle, President Kennedy. I believe they would both be very proud.”
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