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RFK Jr urges Democratic Party to use 'neutral polling' to name new presidential nominee
TND ^ | 7/21/2024 | Kristina Watrobski

Posted on 07/21/2024 2:13:10 PM PDT by Right Wing Vegan

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appeared to caution the Democratic Party Sunday against automatically naming Vice President Kamala Harris its new presidential nominee.

President Joe Biden announced his decision to withdraw from the race in a letter shared to X Sunday. The president noted while he always intended to continue his campaign, he has realized stepping aside is best for both the Democratic Party and the U.S. as a whole.

In a follow-up post, Biden also formally endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to replace him at the top of the Democratic ticket.

Kennedy wrote on X shortly after the announcement that he applauds Biden's decision. He added that the president's "progressive deterioration" and "abandonment of Democratic Party principles" are what motivated him to launch his own presidential campaign.

Yet the response of the DNC [Democratic National Committee] 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," Kennedy said. "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."

The independent candidate went on to caution the Democratic Party against "anointing a candidate hand-picked by DNC elites." He urged the party to assess "neutral polling" numbers to determine who is best fit to beat former President Donald Trump in November.

"The delegates should then select a nominee based on this information," Kennedy said.

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


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: drugs; libertarianparty; naturallawparty; rfkjr; robertkennedyjr
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To: moviefan8

Link?


21 posted on 07/21/2024 2:32:30 PM PDT by John Robinson (🍺)
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To: Pollard

Would love to be a fly on the wall of both RFK jrs and Kamala Harris campaign…


22 posted on 07/21/2024 2:32:37 PM PDT by princess leah ( )
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To: DIRTYSECRET

True and it’s only because there is no opposition to stop them from doing whatever the hell they want.


23 posted on 07/21/2024 2:32:53 PM PDT by Pollard (Will work for high tunnel money!)
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To: princess leah

A Harris-RFK ticket would be pretty solid from a left point of view.


24 posted on 07/21/2024 2:33:29 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: moviefan8
nvm

LIVE: RFK Jr. holds a news conference after Biden drops out of 2024 race
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXrysxb8_m4

25 posted on 07/21/2024 2:34:11 PM PDT by John Robinson (🍺)
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To: servo1969

I hope th anti-fa anti-semite river to the sea gang shows up too!!!


26 posted on 07/21/2024 2:34:29 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: moviefan8
I am not sure what he is trying to say.

Basically he's running either way, so party bosses better come to him.

27 posted on 07/21/2024 2:34:41 PM PDT by Right Wing Vegan (The one most called "dangerous" by minions of the pot normalization conspiracy)
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To: Pollard; Jane Long

28 posted on 07/21/2024 2:34:48 PM PDT by 4Liberty ( Kamala’s relatives owned slaves. )
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To: Right Wing Vegan

you know, the Puppetmeisters ruling over the DNC just might select RFKJr for POTUS (and then a famous attractive sports or movie figure for Veep). RFKs politics are pretty far leftist on most issues and he has the name recognition

just saying, let’s keep an eye open...the DNC has no visible salable candidates for either POTUS or Veep and the Puppetmeisters still would like to hang onto power


29 posted on 07/21/2024 2:37:09 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: TornadoAlley3

Yeah there’s almost a poetry to it


30 posted on 07/21/2024 2:38:31 PM PDT by rottweiller_inc (inter canem et lupum)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

If Kamala becomes the nominee, it’s because the dems have already conceded the presidency with no path to the elusive 270 electoral votes.
She would be the patsy, the throw-away candidate.
If they bypass Kamala, there’s going to be lots of angry democrats for disrespecting the heir apparent, a woman, and a woman of color.
They don’t have anybody else anyway, except for Hillary, the most hated woman in politics who already lost to Trump once, and this time it would be a blowout.

They don’t have time to get this nomination process back on track.
Traditionally, whichever party is leading by Labor Day usually goes on to win the election.
Labor Day is 5 weeks away.
I think it’s over.
President Trump, 47th president of these United States.
The most wild political ride I’ve ever seen since I voted for Nixon in ‘72.
Quite literally unbelievable.


31 posted on 07/21/2024 2:44:29 PM PDT by Thapsus_epiphany (Socialism is a prison, Communism is a death camp )
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To: 4Liberty

Does he know what the American Dream is? Me thinks not.


32 posted on 07/21/2024 2:55:53 PM PDT by vivenne
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To: Right Wing Vegan

Hasn’t RFK jr realized yet that his opinions are inconsequential to everything? Just ask the democrats, they made it perfectly clear.

>snicker<

BTW, he’s a crackpot and a leftist nut... Don’t be fooled.


33 posted on 07/21/2024 2:56:16 PM PDT by Bullish (...And just like that, I was dropped from the ping-list)
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To: TexasFreeper2009
...any chance Democrats would put Kennedy on the ticket?

Gee, then they'd have a double up... Two candidates that nobody wants.

34 posted on 07/21/2024 2:58:02 PM PDT by Bullish (...And just like that, I was dropped from the ping-list)
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To: vivenne; Jane Long
Kind of amazing that Biden himself has not made a public, LIVE statement yet today about this decision - just a tweet, & a letter.

As Poso asks


35 posted on 07/21/2024 3:01:07 PM PDT by 4Liberty ( Kamala’s relatives owned slaves. )
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To: 4Liberty

Alex Soros thinks Humpala is the best and most qualified candidate the Cheatocrats have. What if he’s right?


36 posted on 07/21/2024 3:03:19 PM PDT by Enterprise
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To: Bullish

And a drugs legalizer.


37 posted on 07/21/2024 3:05:35 PM PDT by Right Wing Vegan (The one most called "dangerous" by minions of the pot normalization conspiracy)
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To: 4Liberty

American Dream! Doesn’t he know how she got her start?


38 posted on 07/21/2024 3:08:08 PM PDT by tsowellfan
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To: Right Wing Vegan

When are we all going to stop pretending

Why are we giving them any credibility

Why are we so reticent to accept winning

They have no one

Harris placed so poorly in her run for president that she dropped out having garnered nothing but 1% one percent in her own state of California

They had to drag her out of the Dems dei pile to appoint VP

They have no one. Trump will be in the White House or will be president from wherever he says he’ll run it from

Furthermore Dems do not vote. They appoint them they lie, cheat and steal

The kids around here say Trump won as soon as he looked over at Biden and said, “I have no idea what he just said”.

The CNNs think they hide that but the kids see it in memes on whatever they’re following. It’s badass and it’s funny.


39 posted on 07/21/2024 3:09:29 PM PDT by stanne
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

40 posted on 07/21/2024 3:13:30 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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