Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says if Joe Biden withdraws from the presidential race and another Democrat steps in, he's prepared to make the same offer he gave Biden ... if that candidate has a better chance of beating Trump, he'll withdraw from the race.
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00:00I remember that the only time in my lifetime when a sitting president decided not to run
00:09after he threw his hat in the ring was when your father ran in 1968, Lyndon Johnson dropped
00:14out of the race.
00:16If that happens with Biden, there are some obvious people here who might run.
00:21And that would be Gavin Newsom, Raphael Warnock, Gretchen Whitmer, Wes Moore.
00:26Are any of those candidates palatable enough for you that you would throw your support
00:32behind them and not run?
00:34Or are you in it for the long haul?
00:35I would make the same deal with them that I offered to President Biden, is let's see.
00:43Let's run a poll and see if they're more likely to beat President Trump than me, and I will
00:48withdraw in October if they're more likely to beat him in a head-to-head race.
00:54I don't think that's going to happen.
00:55I think my numbers are the strongest against Donald Trump's.
01:01But if they wanted to take that bargain, I would take it.
01:04I think it was a sad night for our country.
01:06There's 341 million people in our country, and we're the template for democracy around
01:13the globe.
01:14And the idea that that's the best that we can do, I think, is a big, big disappointment.
01:23I mean, I think President Biden accomplished something extraordinary, which was to make
01:29President Trump look kind of reasonable and likable.
01:35I also think, from my own personal point of view, that nobody is going to be accusing
01:43me of making President Biden lose to President Trump.
01:49I think the frailty that he showed and the lack of mental acuity and vigor was, I think,
02:04affected everybody who's on.
02:07Even MSNBC, at the end, was saying, he's got to go.
02:12And I'm sure you read the New York Times this morning, and all of the major liberal outlets
02:18are now calling for him to step down.
02:21But this is something we knew about for a while.