Does Biden Fear A Debate With Robert F. Kennedy Jr?

Multiple Democrats have entered the 2024 presidential race, but the Party has made it clear that they are sticking with Biden and don’t want to risk him getting on a debate stage with other candidates. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more.

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Multiple Democrats have entered the 2024 presidential race, but the party has made it clear that they're sticking with Biden and they don't wanna risk him getting on a debate stage with another candidate. Pretty obviously why. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins joins me to talk about what's happening along with other issues. Farron, this is embarrass, this should be embarrassing to the Democratic party. I mean to say, no, we don't want, I mean, look, Robert F. Kennedy right now, as soon as he announced he was 30, 31 points up on, not ahead of Biden, but he was closing that gap. He's 31 on the announcement day. So don't put him on the stage. Don't let Biden have to answer any questions. Just let it rock on like a bunch of old, crazy people in charge of the US right now.

It really is sad. And, I mean, just because of the fact that we know how things played out for the Democratic party in 2020. Biden was not doing great. South Carolina came along, saved him in that primary, switched the trajectory. Had that not happened or had it happen at a different date, Bernie Sanders likely would've had the momentum going into that. Same thing with 2016. And so what they're trying to do right now is avoid anything that could disrupt Biden.

Right.

And that would include putting him on a debate stage. You and I both know Bobby Kennedy personally.

Right. Been a friend a long time.

He's a wonderful debater. Like, he's super talented at that. And Marianne Williamson, who is also running, has really turned around the undeserved reputation she got in 2020, I will say. They tried to paint her as a kind of a kooky, nutty, but she's not. She is an exceptionally intelligent individual that also deserves to be heard. If Biden is gonna be your candidate, let him earn it again.

Last time running against Trump, and I would've done the same thing with Biden last time. They put him in a cellar, they put him on TV every now and then. They didn't let him talk all that much because it would've scared the hell out of everybody. So right now though, it's almost like they're having a witness protection program. No, he doesn't do interviews, won't do any kind of press conferences, when he does it is a train wreck disaster. So along comes Bobby Kennedy with numbers like that right off the bat. And you gotta say the one thing he's gotta overcome, Bobby has to overcome, obviously the issue with the vaxxer issue. But I gotta tell you something. This is a guy that I've tried cases with over the years. He's been a close personal friend. I've done television with him. I've done radio with him. He and I have been to trial some of the biggest cases in America.

The last one I tried was in West Virginia, a Spelter trial where we hit 'em for $395 million because Bobby and I were able to show that they had put these stacks of toxin, I mean mountains of toxin. This company had put mountains of toxins up around the city. The wind was coming in, people were dying of all kinds of lung diseases. So they really punished him. But the point is, he cares. He's done something. He doesn't just, he actually walks the talk. Right now we've got a guy who said he wants to, hell, he doesn't even want to talk. He wants to hang out somewhere and just let this thing go as it, you know, maybe somebody's gonna pay attention to it. I don't know.

Well, you know, it really at this point seems like it would be a walk in the park for Biden if he didn't have Democratic challengers. Right? Obviously at that point, he secures the nomination no matter what. And he's up against Donald Trump, who depending on the week, is 10 points down or 10 points ahead of Biden. I think when it comes down to it, Trump doesn't really have a chance.