RFK Jr. USA Today Interview

USA Today reports:

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. appears to be pulling voters from major party candidates President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election.

Kennedy, 70, a longtime environmental lawyer, sat down on June 4 with USA TODAY Senior National Political Correspondent Sarah D. Wire and New Hampshire election reporting fellow Margie Cullen to discuss his ambitions for the race, whether he'll make it on every state ballot and what his father would think of his campaign.

Wire: This is not going to be a two man race, you pointed to polls that pit you against two of them-

Kennedy: What I would say is there's never been an independent candidate that we know of, that's run before, that's been able, that in head-to-head races, would be beat both other candidates. My challenge over the next five months, is to persuade Americans to vote out of hope, out of inspiration, rather than out of fear. In every poll, I beat President Trump and President Biden in terms of favorability. Oh, there is a big, big majority of Americans who would want to vote for me, but the reason they're voting for President Trump or President Biden in the current polls is because they're so terrified of the other candidate: that if Biden gets elected, it will be the end of the Republic, if Trump gets elected, it will be the end of the Republic. And so they're voting out of fear. And my job is, my challenge is, to persuade Americans to vote out of hope rather than out of fear.

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