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RFK Jr. rages at Trump and Biden ‘colluding’ to exclude him from debates
The New York Post ^ | 05/15/2024 | Ryan King

Posted on 05/15/2024 10:16:28 AM PDT by thegagline

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is furious at being left out of the fast-action morning chest-thumping between former President Donald Trump and President Biden over their upcoming debates.

The independent presidential candidate complained soon after Biden, 81, and Trump, 77, agreed to square off without him in a Georgia debate hosted by CNN on June 27 and another hosted by ABC News on Sept. 10.

“Presidents Trump and Biden are colluding to lock America into a head-to-head match-up that 70% say they do not want,” Kennedy bemoaned on X.

“They are trying to exclude me from their debate because they are afraid I would win,” he claimed, optimistically given recent polling.

Biden-Harris campaign Chair Jen O’Malley Dillon penned a letter to the Commission on Presidential Debates, insisting that the “squandering debate time on candidates with no prospect of becoming president.”

However, in its announcement, CNN revealed that the prerequisite will be for candidates to “receive at least 15% in four separate national polls of registered or likely voters that meet CNN’s standards for reporting.”

Kennedy is averaging 10.8% in the latest RealClearPolitics aggregate of polling.

“If Americans are ever going to escape the hammerlock of the two-party system, now is the time to do it. These are the two most unpopular candidates in living memory,” Kennedy added.

“By excluding me from the stage, Presidents Biden and Trump seek to avoid discussion of their eight years of mutual failure including deficits, wars, lockdowns, chronic disease, and inflation.”

Biden sparked the debate furor with a Wednesday morning taunt against Trump in a video posted to X.

“Donald Trump lost two debates to me in 2020. Since then, he hasn’t shown up for a debate. Now he’s acting like he wants to debate me again. Well, make my day, pal,” ***

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 3rdparty; alternatives; brainwormequals4; duopoly; trump
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1 posted on 05/15/2024 10:16:28 AM PDT by thegagline
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To: thegagline

He has a point


2 posted on 05/15/2024 10:17:03 AM PDT by combat_boots
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To: combat_boots

Well, if the rule was no candidates with brain worms, RFJ Jr would be excluded. However, that would also exclude Joey.... so yes, he does have a point.


3 posted on 05/15/2024 10:19:04 AM PDT by C210N (Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.)
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To: thegagline

He should be excluded if for no other reason his voice is horrible to listen to......like hearing a dog that’s had it’s vocal chords clipped trying to bark.


4 posted on 05/15/2024 10:19:23 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: combat_boots

What are they possibly afraid of ?


5 posted on 05/15/2024 10:19:35 AM PDT by erlayman (E )
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To: thegagline

Not to be mean but I have a hard time listening to rfk with thst awful throat condition. This is a chance for Trump to clobber biden we don’t need rfk muddying up the waters.


6 posted on 05/15/2024 10:19:53 AM PDT by toddausauras (Trump 2024)
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To: thegagline
"RFK Jr. rages at Trump and Biden ‘colluding’ to exclude him from debates"

Is that RFK Jr. raging, or just another worm munching on his brain?!?

7 posted on 05/15/2024 10:20:51 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: thegagline

If Junior siphoned significantly more votes away from Trump as he did Biden, there is no question in my mind that he would be included in the debates and given prime-time coverage by the Lamestream media.


8 posted on 05/15/2024 10:21:08 AM PDT by HandBasketHell
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To: V_TWIN

“Presidents Trump and Biden are colluding...”

I seriously doubt that


9 posted on 05/15/2024 10:21:44 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: toddausauras

If he had a better voice, he might have been elected President already.


10 posted on 05/15/2024 10:21:47 AM PDT by maro (MAGA!)
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To: HandBasketHell

Great point


11 posted on 05/15/2024 10:22:12 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: All

RFK must be taking more votes away from Biden or cnn would have allowed him on the debate stage


12 posted on 05/15/2024 10:22:44 AM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: thegagline

I don’t see an issue of Trump offering 3 debates to RFK in Sep/Oct...offering up 2x debates with VP choices. It’d slice off points from Biden.


13 posted on 05/15/2024 10:22:47 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: toddausauras; maro

See my post 4


14 posted on 05/15/2024 10:23:13 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: HandBasketHell

He’ll take the message of exclusion viral. Make them both pay.


15 posted on 05/15/2024 10:24:36 AM PDT by erlayman (E )
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To: combat_boots

He has a point

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Not that I’m a fan of his, whatsoever, but I tend to agree. The 15% threshold’s sole purpose is to exclude 3rd party candidates.


16 posted on 05/15/2024 10:24:41 AM PDT by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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To: V_TWIN

Agree it is painful.


17 posted on 05/15/2024 10:26:50 AM PDT by toddausauras (Trump 2024)
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To: thegagline

He’s just raging against the machine. The Biden cartel controls everything, they have full control and all power. It will be as they say it will.

That’s how it goes in a dictatorship. Trump can choose to go, or not. That’s the only choice, the only power, he has. RFK can rage against the machine. That’s all he can do.

I will tell you this, if the debate happens (and I think it will, Trump has no other option, really). 90% of the time will be spent on Abortion, on Trump assaulting women and paying off porn stars. There will be no other subjects except a short aside on how Biden saved the economy and slayed the Trump-caused inflation. And Trump will have to sit there and take it…because even when he agrees to the rules, the other side and their paid lackeys at the moderator tables, don’t have to follow even their own rules.

That’s how it goes in a dictatorship.


18 posted on 05/15/2024 10:27:09 AM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast (We have not yet achieved peak crazy)
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To: z3n

I’m no fan. It’s the principle.


19 posted on 05/15/2024 10:27:48 AM PDT by combat_boots
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To: thegagline

😴 Zzzzzzz


20 posted on 05/15/2024 10:28:40 AM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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