‘Very Painful’: RFK Jr Opens Up to Fox & Friends About Family Rejection of Leaving the Democratic Party

Robert Kennedy, Jr. appeared on the set of Fox & Friends Tuesday morning and revealed the great pain he has felt since announcing his political plans — and leaving the Democratic party — were rejected by his family.

RFK, Jr. formally announced his third-party bid for the White House in Philadelphia, confirming Mediaite’s Diana Falzone’s exclusive scoop that his independent run was forthcoming. Following Monday’s announcement, four of his living siblings have issued a statement expressing their severe disappointment with the move.

In a statement shared to Twitter/X, Kerry Kennedy, Rory Kennedy, Joseph P. Kennedy II, and Kathleen Kennedy Townsend iterated that while he may carry the Kennedy name, their brother didn’t inherit the Kennedy “values, vision, or judgment” that made the family practically royalty in America’s Democratic party:

The decision of our brother Bobby to run as a third party candidate against [President] Joe Biden is dangerous to our country. Bobby might share the same name as our father, but he does not share the same values, vision, or judgement. Today’s announcement is deeply saddening for us. We denounce his candidacy and believe it to be perilous for our country.

Steve Doocy addressed this turn of events and familial drama, How big a step was it to say, you know what, today’s sorry family, I’m going to have to take a step away?”

RFK, Jr. replied:

It was it was very painful for me. I mean, I, you know, I was raised in the Democratic Party. My father, and my uncles were with leaders of the party. You know, our relationship with the Democratic Party goes back generations. My great-grandfather, Honey Fitz, was the first Irish-Catholic. mayor of Boston. My other great-grandfather, Patrick Kennedy, was aboard the Democratic Party. And so leaving the party of my, you know, my family is very, very difficult for me. But it was a choice that I didn’t feel that I had a I didn’t feel I had a choice. And I think it’s the right thing right now because we’re seeing that, you know, it’s the same corporate donors that control both parties that they have. And the parties are in paralysis. They cannot within that party system, they are locked in, as in this war with each other.

The polarization that they’re polarizing the American public. And we need we need a strategy for unity in it, a strategy for bringing people together. And what I’ve found traveling the country is that there’s much more even among the most extreme Democrats and Republicans, there’s still more that we have in common than issues that are being used to drive us apart. Everybody wants a clean environment and everybody wants to take care of our veterans. Everybody wants our kids to have a good education. And we want to make everybody want to make sure the regulatory agencies are serving the public interest instead of working for the corporations that they’re supposed to regulate. And I think we need somebody who’s going to find those areas of agreement, the values we agree on, and then focus on these little issues that have us at each other’s throats.

Watch above via Fox News.

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