RFK Jr. Wants Democratic Party Nomination for President

July 22—2024 Independent Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is proposing a de facto “open convention” nominating process to occur at the Chicago Democratic Convention in August. He has proposed that there be a neutral polling process that would allow delegates to vote their conscience as to who they think can actually beat Donald Trump in November—which, according to certain polling data, Kennedy has the best chance of anyone presently campaigning. Today, he issued the following statement:

“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.”

Kennedy then attacks the imperial and highly undemocratic “Democratic National Committee” which arranged that there would be no primary challenge to Joe Biden:

“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.”

The statement had 1.3 million views in the first hours of its release.