Former President Donald Trump reportedly axed a proposal from independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to trade a job in his potential second administration for an endorsement in the 2024 presidential race.
The Washington Post reported on Monday that Trump and Kennedy met to discuss the possibilities in the days following his July 13th rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, and the assassination attempt that took place there. According to that report, no consensus was reached — primarily due to concerns over the optics of such an exchange.
Kennedy, who has not endorsed Trump and says he plans to continue his campaign for the presidency, did praise the former president for reaching out to him when his own former party wanted nothing to do with him.
“All I will say to you is I am willing to talk to anybody from either political party who wants to talk about children’s health and how to end the chronic disease epidemic,” Kennedy said during a Monday interview. “I have a lot of respect for President Trump for reaching out to me. Nobody from the DNC, high or low, has ever reached out to me in 18 months. Instead they have allocated millions to try to disrupt my campaign.”
Kennedy also responded to the news that President Joe Biden was no longer seeking his party’s nomination by calling on the Democratic National Committee to refrain from simply “anointing” Vice President Kamala Harris to run in his stead.
“I call on the Democratic Party to return to its traditional commitment to democracy and exemplify it with an open process. Instead of anointing a candidate hand-picked by DNC elites, the party should use neutral polling to identify the candidate who can best beat Donald Trump,” Kennedy said. “The delegates should then select a nominee based on this information. If they had done this to begin with, I would not have had to leave the Democratic Party.”
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