RFK Jr. admits he ‘would definitely not’ vote for himself if he believed the news: ‘Even more than Trump was slammed’
Democratic presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy Jr. acknowledged Sunday that even he wouldn’t vote for himself if he believed the news.
“If I believed the stuff that’s written about me in the papers and reported about me on the mainstream news sites, I would definitely not vote for me,” Kennedy said on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures.”
“I would think I was a very despicable person.”
Kennedy, an environmental lawyer and nephew of slain President John F. Kennedy, contended that he’s taken more flak than Donald Trump.
“I’ve been really, you know, slammed in a way that I think is unprecedented,” said Kennedy, whose political-dynasty dad, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, was assassinated in 1968, five years after his brother John.
“Even more than President Trump was slammed by the mainstream corporate media,” RFK Jr. said.
Kennedy remains a longshot Dem challenger to incumbent President Biden, trailing him by more than 51 percentage points in the latest RealClearPolitics aggregate.
Democratic critics have excoriated Kennedy for his views on everything from vaccines to his recent remarks unearthed by The Post in which he repeated a claim that victims of COVID may have been “ethnically targeted,” with the deadly virus avoiding “Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese.”
Kennedy has adamantly denied accusations of antisemitic intent in those comments and stressed, “I have never, ever suggested that the COVID-19 virus was targeted to spare Jews.”
The 69-year-old pointed to a recent Harvard-Harris poll showing that he has the highest net favorability rating of the key political figures sampled.
“Somehow, the American people are hearing what I am saying. I don’t know whether it’s through the podcast or through social media. My unfavorability ratings should be off the charts,” he said, referring to coverage of his campaign.
Last week, Kennedy testified before the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, where he assailed social media censorship.
“This should not be a partisan issue. This needs to be bipartisan, and the Democratic Party has always fought very hard on it,” he told Fox News. “We can’t have a democracy if we don’t have freedom of speech.”
Recently, John F. Kennedy’s grandson, Jack Schlossberg, decried his cousin’s presidential bid as an “embarrassment.
“He’s trading in on Camelot, celebrity, conspiracy theories and conflict for personal gain and fame,” Schlossberg said of RFK Jr.
“I’ve listened to him. I know him. I have no idea why anyone thinks he should be president. What I do know is, his candidacy is a vanity project,” said Schlossberg, the son of JFK’s daughter, Caroline.
