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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sought to make the case on Sunday that he can do one thing no third-party or impartial candidate has come near doing in fashionable U.S. historical past: win a presidential election. Although polls present him far behind, each major-party campaigns, these of President Biden and former President Donald J. Trump, view Mr. Kennedy as a possible spoiler.
Speaking at a rally on Long Island outdoors New York City, Mr. Kennedy cited polls that he stated his marketing campaign had carried out, displaying him successful in two eventualities: one wherein he confronted solely Mr. Biden with out Mr. Trump within the race, and one wherein he confronted Mr. Trump with out Mr. Biden.
The motive he’s behind in a three-way race, he maintained, is that “so many Americans are voting out of concern.”
“Their solely technique is to attempt to maintain me off the poll after which to make all people afraid of Donald Trump,” he stated of Democrats, “and on the opposite facet, they do the identical factor,” he added of Republicans. “When someone is telling you to vote out of concern, they’re making an attempt to govern you into abandoning your values,” he stated.
Mr. Kennedy acknowledged to the gang in Holbrook, N.Y., that Mr. Biden and Mr. Trump differed in quite a few methods.
“If you have a look at their personalities, their inclinations, their presentation, their ideology, their way of living, their interactions with different folks, there’s an enormous, large distinction,” he stated.
But he argued that points on which Mr. Biden and Mr. Trump held starkly totally different positions — like abortion, border safety, weapons and transgender rights — have been “tradition conflict points” that “are used to divide us all.” He stated that on the nationwide debt and power illness — points he known as “existential for our nation” — their positions weren’t materially totally different.
In discussing the prevalence of power illness, Mr. Kennedy lamented the United States’ disproportionately excessive demise fee from the coronavirus in contrast with the demise fee skilled by different developed nations, a disparity attributable partially to the comparatively low uptake of vaccines that Mr. Kennedy has campaigned towards.
He prompt — in contradiction of scientific proof of the protection and efficacy of Covid vaccines, and information displaying greater demise charges in states with decrease vaccination charges — that the nation’s poor Covid efficiency was a mark towards vaccines.
“Whatever we’re doing, no matter we did, it was fallacious,” Mr. Kennedy stated, referring to vaccine mandates, lockdowns and different pandemic responses.
