RFK Jr. Responds to Siblings’ Rebuke of Presidential Campaign, Says It ‘Was Very Painful’ to Leave Party (Video)

The now-independent 2024 presidential tells Fox News he hopes to “take votes from both President Biden and President Trump”

One day after siblings Rory Kennedy, Kerry Kennedy, Joseph P. Kennedy II and Kathleen Kennedy Townsend denounced his independent 2024 presidential run as one that’s “dangerous to our country,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sat with “Fox & Friends” Tuesday morning and admitted that it “was very painful” and “leaving the party of my family is very, very difficult.”

“It was very painful for me. I was raised in the Democratic Party, my father, my uncles were the leaders of the party. You know, our relationship with the Democratic Party goes back generations,” Kennedy Jr. told hosts Brian Kilmeade, Kayleigh McEnany and Steve Doocy. “Leaving the party of my family is very, very difficult for me, but it was a choice that I didn’t feel that I had a choice about.”

The politician, who announced his intent to run on the 2024 ballot as an independent after launching his presidential campaign as a Democrat against President Joe Biden in April, then detailed factors such as overreaching power from corporate donors as influencing his decision to go independent.

“It’s the same corporate donors that control both of the parties. And the parties are in paralysis. They cannot, within that party system, they’re locked in this war with each other,” he said. “The polarization, the name-calling, they’re polarizing the American public. And we need a strategy for unity and we need a strategy for bringing people together.”

He then emphasized that in his time “traveling the country,” he’s found “that there’s much more, even among the most extreme Democrats and Republicans, there’s still more that we have in common than the issues that are being used to drive us apart.”

He also maintained that he’s “very much aligned with those things” that famously defined the politics of his father, Robert Kennedy Jr., and uncles, John F. Kennedy Jr. and Ted Kennedy.

When asked whether or not he’s concerned about pulling votes away from the Democratic incumbent Biden, Kennedy quipped that he hopes “to take votes from both President Biden and President Trump.”

As far as his thoughts on his siblings’ scathing statement to his campaign on Monday — in which they wrote, “Bobby might share the same name as our father, but he does not share the same values, vision or judgment. Today’s announcement is deeply saddening for us” — Kennedy said, simply, “I love my family. Every family has disputes.”

“I’ve got a lot of family members who are supporting me,” he said. “There’s a lot of members of my family who are working for the Biden administration and, you know, they have their own options about issues.”

Watch Kennedy’s full “Fox & Friends” interview in the video above.

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2 responses to “RFK Jr. Responds to Siblings’ Rebuke of Presidential Campaign, Says It ‘Was Very Painful’ to Leave Party (Video)”

  1. Ted Faraone Avatar
    Ted Faraone

    The problem is Bobby Kennedy, Jr. is not Bobby Kennedy.  He is a professor of fractured ceramics.  He really ought to get out of politics as soon as possible so that he no longer soils the Kennedy name.

  2. drfraudstikillerbeagelMD Avatar
    drfraudstikillerbeagelMD

    I was all for listening to RFK, aka Robert Francis Kennedy about everything he stood for, especially about vaccines, until I heard he supported reparations. That’s a deal breaker there. This is some BS here!!!!!! African Americans have been getting welfare and free stuff for years!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And as for reparations STOP THE INSANITY!!!!!! What about reparations for all the disabled people born in USA who have had years of NO SERVICES and discrimination and all the ELDERLY KILLED AND ABUSED…all the disabled and eldery represent ALL RACES, to sit here and try to pander to ONE Race is ABSURD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FU. SO tired of this Bull SHITE> you want reparations you better start with giving reparations to all the disabled homeless vets, the disabled abused in group homes, the elderly killed and abused in nursing homes and all the disabled, homeless vets and elderly raped , killed, ignored and neglected in the USA. FU with the selective black only reparations you PHONY PATHETIC vote pimping mtfukers.

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