Democrat presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr. made it clear Wednesday he won’t, beneath any circumstances, be a part of former President Donald Trump on a 2024 basic election ticket, quashing all hypothesis on the matter.
“Simply to quell any hypothesis, UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES will I be a part of Donald Trump on an electoral ticket,” Kennedy, who introduced his presidential bid final month, stated on social media.
“Our positions on sure basic points, our approaches to governance, and our philosophies of management couldn’t be additional aside,” he added:
Simply to quell any hypothesis, UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES will I be a part of Donald Trump on an electoral ticket. Our positions on sure basic points, our approaches to governance, and our philosophies of management couldn’t be additional aside.
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) Could 10, 2023
Kennedy’s comment comes in the future after the release of a Rasmussen Studies survey, which discovered Kennedy with a constructive favorable ranking amongst each Democrats and Republicans, as nicely a as a plurality of impartial voters.
Whereas Democrats, particularly, nonetheless view Biden as the only option when selecting from Kennedy and Marianne Williamson, seemingly voters throughout the board have been cut up when it got here to the prospect of a Biden-Harris ticket versus a Trump-Kennedy ticket.
Per the survey:
In a matchup with Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, 44% of Probably Voters would vote for Trump-Kennedy whereas 44% would vote for Biden-Harris, whereas seven % (7%) would vote for another candidate and 5 % (5%) will not be certain. In such a matchup, Trump-Kennedy would get the votes of 72% of Republicans, 20% of Democrats and 41% of unaffiliated voters. Seventy-two % (72%) of Democrats, 14% of Republicans and 44% of unaffiliated voters would select Biden-Harris.
The survey comes as Kennedy seemingly affords what some have described as a populist agenda, dismissing among the narratives touted by the extra radical members of his celebration.
As an example, Kennedy final week made the argument that one will be each “pro-immigration AND professional closing the border” — a concession that comes because the U.S. sees shut to 5 million border crossers and unlawful aliens coming into the U.S. since President Biden took workplace.
“America needs to be a haven of freedom and prosperity, open to law-abiding migrants who will contribute to our society. Nonetheless, immigration should proceed in an orderly, lawful method. Proper now we now have chaos on the border. Human trafficking, criminality, insupportable stress on border states like Texas. It’s a humanitarian nightmare,” Kennedy stated on social media.
Is it doable to be pro-immigration AND professional closing the border? Sure. America needs to be a haven of freedom and prosperity, open to law-abiding migrants who will contribute to our society. Nonetheless, immigration should proceed in an orderly, lawful method. Proper now we now have chaos at…
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) Could 3, 2023
Kennedy has additionally spoken overtly about censorship within the U.S., describing it as a “direct assault on our democracy.”
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