RFK Jr.: Dems Changed 60 Different Rules to Make it Impossible to Challenge Joe Biden

WATTERS: “So, RFK, you ran the right way. You did what you were supposed to do, you primaried a Democrat incumbent, and they would not let you. How did they jam you out of this thing? Because now look at what happened.”
Kennedy JR.: “Yeah, I think it was a strategic mistake by the Democrats, Jesse, and you and I have talked about this before. They changed the primary rules while we were running the primary. They changed 60 different rules to make it impossible for anybody to challenge Biden. One of the things that you remember that they did to me is I’d been campaigning in New Hampshire, so they adopted a rule that said that any political candidate, any Democratic candidate who campaigns in New Hampshire, who steps foot into the state of New Hampshire, all of their votes would go to the president, all their delegates would go to the president instead of going to the — and then they shut down the Florida primary, they shut down a bunch of primaries. Joe said, ‘We’re not running them. We already have our candidate.’ You know, a few weeks ago, President Biden was ridiculing Vladimir Putin, who won 88% of the vote in Russia. He said that was a fixed election because President Putin had gotten rid — made sure no adversaries could challenge him, and also that he had fixed the press so the press would not cover his adversaries. Well, the Democratic Party succeeded in doing the same thing. I have not been allowed on any of the Democratic networks, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN. As you know, FOX has allowed me on. Although people like you have allowed me to speak, you debate me, you give me a platform even though you do not agree with things I say, and I think that is the way the media is supposed to work.”
WATTERS: “Yeah, I mean, you can’t — take Monopoly. When you are playing with children, you just change the rules in the middle of the game and just kind of make it up as you go along. You cannot do that when it comes to these high stakes. You know how things operate at conventions. There’s been a long history of chicanery at these things. You now have uncommitted delegates. Are we going to see bribery? Are we going to see quid pro quo?A re we going to see ambassadorships promised, donors greased? Basically, this is a sprint to grease as many delegates by mid-August as possible.”
Kennedy JR.: “Yeah, I think some of that is bound to happen. I think most of those delegates are kind of mom-and-pop people, they committed originally to Biden. His releasing them, I think a lot of them are probably idealistic people who want to see the Democratic nominee, are terrified of Donald Trump, who want to see the Democratic nominee succeed. But I don’t — you know, the indicators now, Jesse, is that the party elites are not really going to let go of the process. We will see what happens. The last time — there’s a lot of similarities between this election and what happened with my dad’s election in 1968. There was a war going on at that time that was very controversial and was very damaging to our country. There were protesters in the street. The convention was in Chicago. And my father, who was leading, got knocked out by an assassin’s bullet, not by resignation. You, in effect, had an open convention, but the DNC at that time tried to maintain control over it. They put their candidate in, Hubert Humphrey. The convention became riotous and the riots shocked the American public and they did not want anything to do with the Democratic Party after that. I think a lot of people in the Democratic Party probably should look back to what happened in 1968 and take some caution from allowing the party elites to continue to exercise control over their choices.”
WATTERS: “That would be good, sage advice from RFK Jr.. And we will be, ‘Jesse Watters Primetime,’ in Chicago, covering the DNC. It now just got a whole lot more interesting. RFK Jr., good luck.”
Kennedy JR.: “Thanks for having me, Jesse.”