RFK Jr. Reveals NewsNation and Elon Musk Are Discussing a Joint Alternative to CNN’s Trump-Biden Debate
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. revealed on Wednesday that he was speaking to NewsNation and Elon Musk about hosting an alternative event to CNN’s first 2024 presidential debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump next month.
During an interview on Wednesday, NewsNation host Chris Cuomo told Kennedy, “If you can’t get on that stage, we’re happy at NewsNation to offer you a platform.”
After Cuomo asked, “What do you think about creating an alternative platform if you get boxed out of the game?” Kennedy replied:
We are talking right now with NewsNation, with your network, and Elon Musk has offered us a platform on X, and Elon is now talking also with NewsNation to do a joint platform and a joint debate, kind of an alternative debate. So you know, that’s something we’re looking at. I obviously would like to be on the debate– I would like to be on the main debate stage.
“You wanna be on the main debate stage, I totally get it,” Cuomo responded. “But they’re not gonna let you on.”
Kennedy filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) on Wednesday, accusing CNN of colluding with Biden and Trump to keep him off the debate stage.
“CNN colluded with the Biden Committee and the Trump Committee to schedule and did schedule a debate with criteria that were designed to result in the selection of certain pre-chosen participants, namely Biden and Trump, in a clear breach of federal campaign finance law,” the complaint alleged. “The available evidence leads to the clear conclusion that CNN is making prohibited corporate contributions to both campaigns.”
CNN denied the allegations.
Both Biden and Trump have expressed opposition to Kennedy joining them on the debate stage.
Last week, the Kennedy campaign handed out rubber chickens ahead of Trump’s speech at the Libertarian National Convention in protest over his exclusion from the first presidential debate.
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