The Washington Post revealed on Wednesday that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has attempted to meet with Kamala Harris, in the hopes of negotiating a potential position in her administration in exchange for an endorsement. Unfortunately for Kennedy, as the Post reported, Harris and her team have “not responded with an offer to meet or shown interest in the proposal.” Also unfortunate for the independent candidate? That his response to being ignored was to throw a massive tantrum attacking the woman from whom he was only recently trying to get a job.
On X, Kennedy wrote, “VP Harris’s Democratic Party would be unrecognizable to my father and uncle and I cannot reconcile it with my values.” He claimed, among other things, that Harris is “scared to debate,” and mocked her for embracing the “infantile slogan” of “joy,” before concluding, “I have no plans to endorse Kamala Harris for President. I do have a plan to defeat her.”
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After the Post story ran, Kennedy also spoke to The New York Times about trying to set up the sit-down with Harris, and how he and his advisers have been rebuffed. “We’ve reached out repeatedly through the highest level intermediaries,” he wrote in a text message to the Times. “We’ve been told that they have no interest in talking with me.” Which makes Jr.’s subsequent social media claims, post-spurning, extremely embarrassing. Also deeply embarrassing? This detail from the Post story:
In other words, Kennedy—or someone working for him—apparently thought that he should replace Biden on the Democratic ticket, and after that pipe dream didn’t come to pass, tried to land a position in a potential Harris administration, which also went nowhere, which left him no choice but to throw a fit.
Last month, in a clip posted online (and then taken down) by one of Kennedy’s sons, the candidate is seen speaking on the phone with Donald Trump about their shared distrust of vaccines; at one point, the ex-president says, “I would love you to do [something]. And I think it’ll be so good for you and so big for you. And we’re going to win.” According to the Post, Kennedy and Trump met in Milwaukee last month to discuss “a policy role and endorsement that resulted in no agreement.” Trump campaign advisers told the outlet that “they are still in touch with Kennedy and his senior team, and some of the advisers are expecting Kennedy to drop out and endorse Trump.”
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