{"id":1254185,"date":"2023-10-08T15:06:49","date_gmt":"2023-10-08T15:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/?p=144634"},"modified":"2023-10-08T15:06:49","modified_gmt":"2023-10-08T15:06:49","slug":"why-rfk-jr-will-announce-on-monday-hell-run-as-an-independent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/10\/08\/why-rfk-jr-will-announce-on-monday-hell-run-as-an-independent\/","title":{"rendered":"Why RFK Jr. Will Announce on Monday He\u2019ll Run as an Independent"},"content":{"rendered":"
On September 29, the very pro-Biden Mediaite site headlined and reported with hostility toward RFK Jr., \u201cEXCLUSIVE: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Planning to Announce Independent Run\u201d<\/a>. Then, on October 4, RFK Jr.\u2019s Presidential campaign announced<\/a> that on October 9 he \u201cwill make a historic announcement in Philadelphia, where he will share a vision of a profound realignment of American politics.\u201d On many occasions recently, Kennedy has stated that the Biden campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) are running one campaign \u2014 the DNC is effectively being run by Biden \u2014 and are blocking him from even a possibility of winning the Democratic Party\u2019s nomination, such as by their changing the Party\u2019s rules so that in Georgia, for example, every vote for Kennedy will instead be counted as being a vote for Biden.<\/p>\n <\/a>However, the most detailed explanation of what’s happening has been posted by the People\u2019s Party, which is gearing up to assist the campaign of RFK Jr., and which had headlined on September 28, \u201cMajority of Americans Support RFK Jr. Running as an Independent\u201d<\/a>. They reported there the results of an Ipsos poll of 1,000 Americans during September 15-18 which found that \u201cIf the 2024 presidential election was held today between these candidates, who would you vote for?\u201d was answered 39% for Trump, 38% for Biden, and 17% for RFK Jr. if he runs as an independent. 17% is exceptionally strong for any candidate other than a current or former U.S. President at so early a time in the campaign-season. The People’s Party noted that \u201cPolling at 17% would qualify him to participate in the general election debates if the major parties used the traditional 15% threshold.\u201d Furthermore: if the 2024 final election will instead be only between Trump and Biden, then the result would be 45% Trump and 44% Biden; so, Trump was 1% ahead of Biden in each of those two hypothetical situations. The People\u2019s Party also reported there that:<\/p>\n The Democratic Party is a dead end for Kennedy\u2019s campaign. An incumbent president has never lost a party primary. In 2017, the DNC stated<\/a> in court that its presidential primaries are a charade and that it picks the nominees. It stated that, as a private corporation, it is under no obligation to be impartial or follow its own rules. The court upheld this argument.<\/p>\n Furthermore, the DNC and the Biden campaign are essentially the same entity. Biden appointed DNC Chair Jamie Harrison, who is shutting down debates and rearranging the primary schedule according to Biden\u2019s wishes. In February, the entire DNC unanimously endorsed Biden. The president\u2019s campaign dictates the rules of the primary and can change them at will. At the convention, the party can even choose a nominee who didn\u2019t run in the primary, as it did in 1968. This means that even if Biden dropped out, the DNC would still install someone like Gavin Newsom [i.e., a Biden-clone].<\/p>\n