Robert F. Kennedy Jr. urges Democrats to have an "open process" for picking their presidential nominee. This comes after President Biden announced he is not seeking re-election.
"The Democrats really need to do what President Obama said, which is to have an open process, a genuinely open process. So much of the primary process was rigged," Kennedy stated on "Fox & Friends" Monday.
Despite his appeal, Kennedy doubts the Democratic Party plans to change. "It has to be some kind of fair process because it looks to the American public that the system is just rigged, which it is," he said.
Watch the latest video at foxnews.comKennedy, who switched to independent, will not seek the Democratic nomination. "I'm not going to get into the Democratic Party as long as the system seems rigged. If they had a fair system, I would. I would definitely look at it," he added.
Kennedy believes he is the only candidate who can beat Donald Trump, based on polling. With VP Kamala Harris running with Biden's backing, Kennedy said she has some "explaining to do" about hiding the president's true condition.
"She was seeing the president every day, and she was telling the American public again and again, 'he is completely capable of running the country. There's no signs of a deterioration. There's no signs of cognitive impairment.' And that clearly was not true," Kennedy claimed.
He added, "Whoever she runs against, she has a big vulnerability … because she's been the concealer in chief."
At a press conference from his family's compound in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, Kennedy praised Biden but blamed Democratic leaders for hiding his mental decline.
"I want to begin by commending President Biden for a career in public service: a long, long career and representing and serving our country and for his handling of the many difficulties and challenges, personal challenges and tragedies that he suffered during his life with so much admirable conduct and the empathy that he derives from those experiences," Kennedy said.
Kennedy criticized the DNC for blocking his challenge to Biden in the primaries. "The reaction of the DNC to that obvious condition was to hide it from the American public and to use their power over the Democratic Party nomination process to make sure that nobody could compete with President Biden in a way that would expose his deficiencies," he argued.