Robert F. Kennedy Jr. slammed Vice President Harris’s candidacy Tuesday, saying she is not “a worthy president” while defending his choice to instead endorse former President Trump.
“I don’t think that Vice President Harris is a worthy president of this country,” Kennedy told NewsNation host Chris Cuomo. “I think we need to have a president who can give an interview, who can articulate a vision, who can put together an English sentence, who can articulate her and defend her policies and her record and who can engage in a debate with, and regular debates unscripted appearances, president or vice president.”
Harris has recently faced criticism over her lack of media appearances since replacing President Biden at the top of the Democratic ticket, with some arguing she has not clearly laid out her policy visions. She sat alongside her running mate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) for her first major sit-down interview last week with CNN’s Dana Bash, during which she experienced no major gaffes and made no major news.
Kennedy announced last month he would suspend his campaign in the battleground states and put his support behind Trump. In doing so, he ripped the Democratic Party and the media for what he claimed was an unfair treatment of his independent campaign.
“Well, it became clear to me, Chris, that I was not going to be allowed on the debating stage, which was really my only path to victory. I was already being boycotted by all of the mainstream media, by the liberal media,” Kennedy said Tuesday on NewsNation’s “Cuomo.”
He added later, “I had no way to grow, and our polling was showing that if I stayed in the race, Vice President Harris would win, and I did not want that outcome.”
