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Robert F Kennedy Jr. said on Sunday that he is being attacked by the mainstream media in an “unprecedented” way that rivals and goes beyond the scrutiny of former President Trump.
“It’s interesting to me because I’ve been really, you know, smitten in a way that I don’t think has ever been seen before President Trump has been smitten by the mainstream, by the corporate media,” Kennedy told Fox Business’s Maria Bartiromo on “Sunday Morning Futures” this weekend.
“But the Harris Harvard poll (The Harvard CAPS/Harris Poll) came out – the gold standard poll – I think 2,500 people showed yesterday that my popularity is greater than… I think 20 points than any other political candidate, so somehow the American people hear what I say,” Kennedy added.
Kennedy told Bartiromo that his unfavorable ratings should be “off the charts” if everyone believed the negative press against him, but that hasn’t been the case.
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Democratic presidential nominee Robert F Kennedy Jr., left, and former President Trump. (Getty Images)
“I mean, listen, if I believed the things that were written about me in the papers and reported about me on the mainstream sites, I wouldn’t have any, I certainly wouldn’t vote for me and… I’d think I was a very despicable person,” Kennedy said.
Kennedy has come under scrutiny from the mainstream media for his opposition to government censorship, his push for greater transparency, and testing in the vaccine authorization process. He was charged with anti-Semitism over a comment he made about bioweapons being developed by countries including the US and China and how there was an “argument” that COVID may have been “ethnically targeted”.
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Democratic presidential nominee Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. speaks as Michael Smerconish hosts a “SiriusXM Town Hall with Democratic presidential nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr.” at The Center Theater on June 5, 2023 in Philadelphia. (Lisa Lake/Getty Images for SiriusXM)
“It had nothing to do with anti-Semitism and it’s not a conspiracy theory,” Kennedy told Fox News Digital. “I was simply saying that we should be concerned about the billions of dollars being spent by the world’s most powerful governments developing ethnic bioweapons, and that this is now happening all over the world.”
“I quoted a 2021 paper from the Cleveland Clinic that suggested that COVID-19 was not intentionally created this way, but that it disproportionately impacted certain races and the races most affected due to the configuration of the linkage mechanism on the furin cleavage were most compatible with… people of African descent and with whites and least compatible with ethnic Chinese and Finns and Ashkenazi Jews,” he explained. “I never suggested that that was made on purpose by the Chinese or anyone else. It’s just a fact.”
Democratic presidential nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. arrives to testify before the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, Thursday, July 20, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Kennedy’s polls have held steady since he launched his 2024 presidential campaign despite media attacks, and recent Fox News polls show the challenger won 16% of the Democratic primary.
A recent Quinnipiac poll found that nearly half of American voters would consider a third-party candidate, though Kennedy has emphasized he’s only interested in running as a Democrat.
Joseph A. Wulfsohn of Fox News Digital contributed to this report
Andrew Mark Miller is a reporter at Fox News. Find him on Twitter @andymarkmiller and email tips to AndrewMark.Miller@Fox.com.
