Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. declared Thursday that he has no plans to endorse Ms. Harris for the presidency, despite reports that he would like to discuss a possible exchange of endorsements for Cabinet posts with Vice President Kamala Harris.
of The Washington Post The first to report Kennedy’s request for a meeting was Citation A member of the Kennedy campaign.
In a text message reported Wednesday night, The New York TimesKennedy Written“I have reached out multiple times through intermediaries at the highest levels and have been told they are not interested in speaking with me.”
In a Thursday X post, Kennedy attacked the “Harris Democrats” that his father, the late Attorney General Robert Kennedy, and his uncle, the late President John F. Kennedy, would find “unrecognizable.”
Vice President Harris’ Democratic Party is something my father and uncles could not understand, and I cannot reconcile it with my own values.
The Democrats of RFK and JFK were the party of civil rights and free speech. The party of VP Harris is the party of censorship, lockdowns, and medical mandates…
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (@RobertKennedyJr) August 15, 2024
“RFK and JFK’s Democrats were the party of civil rights and free speech. Vice President Harris’s party is the party of censorship, lockdowns and health care mandates,” said Kennedy, who left the Democratic Party last year.
He continued:
Kennedy Democrats were anti-war. Kamala Democrats are full of neo-con warmongers.
The RFK/JFK Democrats were the allies of Main Street, the cops, the firefighters and the working people. VP Harris’ party is the party of Big Tech, Big Pharma and Wall Street.
The party of my father and uncle was the defender of voting rights and fair elections. The party of VP Harris is the party of the rule of law, disenfranchisement, and the crowning of candidates by corporate donors and party elites.
He also contrasted his uncle and father’s pride in their debating skills and “ability to articulate a coherent vision for our country” with Harris’ “fear of debate and inability to tolerate unscripted interviews.”
“Instead of outlining a vision, she has resorted to middle school level tactics like memes, fabricated headlines, childish slogans (joy!) and name calling (‘Republicans are weird’),” he added.
He ended by writing that he has no “plans to support” her, but he does have “plans to take her down.”
