Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

A system with open debates, with fair primaries, with regularly scheduled debates and a truly independent media untainted by government propaganda and censorship.

I began this journey as a Democrat, the party of my father, my uncle, the party which I pledged my own allegiance to long before I was old enough to vote.

We need a new direction that prioritizes peace and diplomacy over endless conflict.

Our party was a bulwark against big money interests and corporate power.

The current administration's policies have exacerbated tensions with Russia.

As you know, I left that party in October because it had departed so dramatically from the core values that I grew up with.

I left the party to run as an independent, the mainstream of American politics and journalism derided my decision.

Each state poses an insurmountable tangle of arbitrary rules for collecting signatures.

I believe that I would have won the election in a system that I, my father, and my uncles thrived in.

This is profoundly undemocratic.

How are people to choose when they don't know whom they are choosing?

By prioritizing diplomacy and strategic partnerships, we can build a more stable and secure world.

I'm never gonna forget that not just for what you did for my campaign, but for the sacrifices you made because you love our country.

After all, the polls consistently showed me beating each of the other candidates both in favorability and in head-to-head matchups.

The DNC waged continual legal warfare against both President Trump and myself.

Back then, the Democrats were the champions of the constitution of civil rights.

I'm sorry to say that while democracy may still be alive at the grassroots, it has become a little more than a slogan for our political institutions, for our media, and for our government.

It deployed DNC-aligned judges to throw me and other candidates off the ballot and to throw President Trump in jail.

No presidential campaign in American political history has ever done that.

It is vital to recognize that the expansion of the war in Ukraine has precipitated a broader geopolitical shift with potentially disastrous consequences for the United States.

Our nation is at a crossroads.

You showed everyone that democracy is still possible here.

The ongoing conflict in Ukraine is not just a distant issue but one that has direct repercussions for the safety and prosperity of American families.

It ran a sham primary that was rigged to prevent any serious challenge to President Biden.

I wanted to abandon democracy by canceling the primary to conceal the cognitive decline of the sitting president.