RFK Jr. Statement On Biden Dropping Out Of Race

 

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in Brooklyn on May 1. Photo by Jason Schott.

Independent Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. issued a statement on Sunday after President Biden announced he will be dropping his re-election bid.

Kennedy was in the Democratic primary last year until he declared his candidacy as an Independent on October 9, with one of the reasons cited being that, he felt, that the Democratic National Committee (DNC) was not running a fair process.

Kennedy's Statement On X (@RobertKennedyJr):

"I commend President Biden for stepping down. His infirmities were evident to any unbiased observer from the beginning. It was this progressive deterioration - and his abandonment of Democratic Party principles - that prompted me to enter the race and ensure American voters had a viable, vigorous alternative to Donald Trump.

Yet the response of the DNC was to try and hide President Biden's degeneration from the American public and disable democracy to ram him through to his party's nomination.

Many Americans fear that the same DNC elites are about to rig the nominating process again to get a monumentally unpopular vice president to step into President Biden's shoes.

I call on the Democratic Party to return to its traditional commitment to democracy and exemplify it with an open process. Instead of anointing a candidate hand-picked by DNC elites, the party should use neutral polling to identify the candidate who can best beat Donald Trump. The delegates should then select a nominee based on this information.

If they had done this to begin with, I would not have had to leave the Democratic Party."

Kennedy's proposal is modeled on what he announced in Brooklyn, a "no spoiler" pledge in which polls would be taken in October and whoever was weaker against Trump - he or President Biden - would drop out at that time. To read more about that and what the polling was then, please click here.