Robert F. Kennedy Jr., currently running as an independent presidential candidate, is the latest to jump on the bandwagon to condemn Joe Biden's raging Thursday night State of the Union speech. There's been plenty of criticism already:
Joe Biden's State of the Union Was the Most Unhinged and Angry in History
Like many viewers, Kennedy was turned off by the anger and vitriol thrown out by the slurring president and felt it was more like a campaign speech than it was a unifying address.
“I mean, I thought the speech in general, I agree with some of the commentators that you’ve had, that it was hyper-partisan,” Kennedy told Fox News host Laura Ingraham [on Friday].
“This was more of a campaign stump speech that you’d give to a red meat crowd during the last two weeks of the campaign rather than that kind of statesman-like and presidential unifying speech that we want to see and that the nation expects under the world expect from the State of the Union address,” he continued, “You want something that inspires pride in our country and in our country and all around the globe.”
Watch (his comments begin at the 1:21 mark):
The Ingraham Angle: RFK Jr. responds to Biden's State of the Union pic.twitter.com/n9jICszykV
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RFK Jr. went on to say that he strongly differs from Biden on the Russia-Ukraine war.
“I disagree with the kind of comic book characterizations that President Biden has made, this is a war that should have been settled,” Kennedy said. “This was not about stopping [Russian President Vladimir Putin] from rampaging across Europe.”
“It is a war about the ascension of NATO into Ukraine, which we should not be doing,” he added. “Our greatest diplomats have condemned that it was a mistake.”
In October, the candidate formally declared his presidential run as an independent. Kennedy enjoys a net 40 favorability rating among voters, and a number of polls show that if he's on the ballot come November, it will help Trump defeat Biden.
He agreed that affording housing is an issue for many Americans but disagreed with Biden's plan to simply hand out money:
“One issue that he has not mentioned before that I was very happy about, which is the housing crisis in this country. The fact that young people can’t get into our home,” he said. “His solution however, I think was, I would say, a cynical solution, which is a $10,000 gift over the next two years.”
It's hardly the first time RFK has been critical of the president:
RFK Jr. Implies in Social Media Post That Biden is Not Running the Country
RFK Jr. says a lot of things, some of them controversial, but he's dead right on this one—that awful speech was not unifying in any way shape or form, told us very little about the actual state of our union, and was basically a hateful diatribe against half of Americans. It was about as un-presidential as you could get and will be remembered in history as the nakedly partisan harangue that it was.
As terrible as it was, though, it did inspire a few humorous moments:
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