RFK Jr. to stream his own "real debate" during Trump-Biden debate

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: CBS News

June 26, 2024 / 3:03 PM EDT


Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is planning to respond to the Trump-Biden debate Thursday night in real time, in what his campaign is calling "The Real Debate."

CNN has excluded RFK Jr. from the debate, determining he doesn't meet criteria including a polling threshold and appearance on a sufficient number of states' ballots to win the presidency. Kennedy and his team argue that former President Donald Trump and President Biden aren't yet on any ballots, since the Republican National Convention and Democratic National Convention haven't yet taken place.

Kennedy's campaign filed a complaint last month with the Federal Election Commission accusing CNN, Mr. Biden, Trump and their campaigns of violating federal election law. "CNN is making prohibited corporate contributions to both campaigns and the Biden committee and the Trump committee have accepted these prohibited corporate contributions," the complaint said.

The Kennedy campaign hasn't given many details on how his solo debate will unfold but says it will be streamed on "X" and TheRealDebate.com from a studio in Los Angeles. Unlike the Trump-Biden debate, it will have a live audience. The Kennedy event will take place at 9 p.m. Thursday, the same time as the Trump-Biden debate.

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-holding-own-debate-not-invited-to-trump-biden/

[RandySF]

1. Him and an empty chair?

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[Dave Bowman]

11. Just like Clint Eastwood a couple of years ago?

[ificandream]

15. Yeah, he can borrow Clint's. ....:)

[The Grand Illuminist]

53. Clint Eastwood is dead to me.

I will and have never watched his films since that.

[Martin68]

20. My thought exactly. Clint Eastwood talking to a chair.

[Trueblue1968]

38. Him and SARAH PALIN !!!!!!!!

[RandySF]

39. Same thing.

[Ray Bruns]

41. Ouch!

[MorbidButterflyTat]

49. This whole sub-thread:

[AZ8theist]

60. You need to apologize to chairs everywhere.......

How can anyone insult chairs like that...........sheesh...

[womanofthehills]

61. John Stossel will moderate his debate

Stossel, a Libertarian, will show Trump’s & Biden’s answers & ask Kennedy the same questions plus other questions.

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. It's RFK Jr. vs. the brainworm ... RFK's backers are busy lowering expectations for their candidate (nt)

[calimary]

35. Aren't the trump supporters trying to do that with their champion?

Funny… I haven’t heard anything about that strategy being applied to President Biden.

[Harker]

3. I'm sure all three viewers will be captivated. n/t

[orange jar]

5. Hilarious.

Is he just going to livestream his reactions to Trump and Biden's answers and fantasize that he's actually debating them? Too funny.

[Cheezoholic]

6. 2016 for the first time showed how easy it is to grift cash from a campaign after the Citizens United decision

I'm sure there plenty of RFK Jr wrangler's out there taking advantage of an obviously troubled human beings family name to fatten their own wallets unfortunately..

Hell, I was seriously thinking about running. If I could get 10k out of roughly 190 million voters to toss 10 bucks into my own PAC, well that's not quite Clarence Thomas vacations but when you live in the middle of a cornfield... just sayin'

[Marthe48]

7. What to watch

decisions, decisions

I think CNN might have been including those on primary ballots in their decision to keep Bob from participating in their debate.

I'm very sorry. My keyboard has been jumping all over the place since the last update. The cursor leaps to a spot where there are already characters, overwrites, just annoying as can be. I corrected the errors in this post and I will pay more attention

[mahina]

9. Sorry, I don't understand. Could you clarify please?

I 100% get typos...my midnight posts contain some legendary oopses. I blame them on autowrong whenever possible...

Thanks heaps.

[Astraea]

8. That's just sad

[TexasBushwhacker]

10. The fact that he's getting 10% in the polls

just tells me 10% of the people surveyed just want to fuck up the polls.

[jgmiller]

24. No it tells you that some of the 10% are even more clueless than the MAGAs

and that name carries a lot of weight still.

[PatSeg]

12. Oh groan.......

What a pathetic little loser. He just can't get enough attention.

[Captain Zero]

36. Loser collecting sigs for him at Aldi two days ago

Going in Aldi a guy asked me. I said no, my guy is on the ballot and it's not trump.
Coming out he was asking a woman who told him if it was Kennedy she had already signed...
She looked weird too.

I almost asked to take a picture of the two of them together, but it was hot.

[PatSeg]

45. So many strange people these days

I think we've been invaded by the Body Snatchers and they're determined to destroy humanity and take over the world.

[JoseBalow]

13. solo "debate"

[Bristlecone]

14. He's pathetic

[LetMyPeopleVote]

16. Call him Bob and NOT Junior or RFK

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[relayerbob]

23. Call him dipshit or loser

Us Bobs don't want anything to do with him

[calimary]

28. Even that face gives me the creeps.

Beyond just the danger he represents to our country. He can fuck us all up and over by taking enough votes away from President Biden to allow the donald to squeeze into the winner's circle.

I've been trying for awhile now to find SOMETHING-ANYTHING appealing in this guy. I still can't. Even if I were one of those folks who think "they're all alike." Just can't do it.

[Grokenstein]

31. "Goober" does it for me.

[Captain Zero]

37. Good idea, even add the Jr. Bob Junior in conversation.

nt

[GenThePerservering]

17. He has two choices:

Debate a small brown puddle

Or someone who will speak in a high nasal whine.

(Monty Python)

[Music Man]

18. So there will be an empty chair

And then whoever is debating RFK Jr.

[MorbidButterflyTat]

50. Boom!

[cstanleytech]

19. Shadows of Clint Eastwood. nt

[SCantiGOP]

21. I wouldn't doubt this will attract an audience

of several dozens of people.

[BootinUp]

22. Anti-vaxxer nutballs unite. nt

[pnwmom]

25. Why are we giving this guy such prominence on a Democratic site? nt

[Grokenstein]

32. Entertainment. Clowns are funny.

I don't think anybody's going to vote or not vote for him because we mock him here.

[pnwmom]

34. I was talking about his prominence at the top left of the Home page. nt

[BumRushDaShow]

40. He's expected to be a spoiler candidate

pulling anti-vaxxers and GOP-leaning indies (the latter as a protest vote) from the mass of 45 voters.

[pnwmom]

46. But why should we help him be a spoiler candidate by giving him such prominence

on the top of the DU home page?

[LudwigPastorius]

26. This would be a great time for Bob to officially announce...

his new VP pick, Dennis Rodman.

Kennedy/The Worm 2024

[OAITW r.2.0]

27. Whatta joke.

Way to ruin your family legacy, asshole.

[calimary]

29. No kidding.

[Martin68]

48. He already did that. The family has disowned him.

[AZ8theist]

30. I'll take "Unwatched Stream" for $500, Alex...

[Permanut]

33. Sir, a question from the audience..

Are you familiar with the iron lung?

[samnsara]

42. oh that should be thrilling

[LetMyPeopleVote]

43. Who cares?

[Oopsie Daisy]

44. He's behaving like a adolescent who wasn't invited to an upperclassmen's formal party *

* so he pouts and has a tantrum and declares "Oh yeah? Well, I'll just have a party of my own and not invite YOU!"

He's so pathetic. What an embarrassment to his family. What a sorry footnote he is to the Kennedy legacy.

[MorbidButterflyTat]

52. I can totally see that

Maybe he'll line up some of his stuffed animals and GI Joes as his "audience."

[Oopsie Daisy]

55. Cartman!

[MorbidButterflyTat]

59. Too funny!

"Would you like to debate me, Polly Prissypants?"

[Martin68]

47. I'm looking forward to the humorous reactions to this idiotic fake debate.

But the concept is totally RFK Jr in a nutshell. I'm beginning to think he should be institutionalized.

[Jilly_in_VA]

51. And he thinks

people will really watch that?

It is to laugh.

[woodsprite]

54. He's debating his worm? nt

[twodogsbarking]

56. He can have a ventriloquist dummy and debate it. See who wins.

[AnnaLee]

57. I was hoping there was a comedy on at that time. ntp

[regnaD kciN]

58. He's going to debate himself...?

He’ll lose.