Name: Will RFK Jr. Run For President as an Independent?
Uploaded: 2023-09-26T19:00:51.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Will RFK Jr. Run For President as an Independent?' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-09-26. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Will RFK Jr. Run For President as an Independent?' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-09-26. Transcript available.

um so you're running for you're running right now you're running for president
yeah with the democratic under the d democratic party right at the moment okay
and so the is it
usual is it normal that someone is able to run against the incumbent just i
want to make this
clear from audience because some audience i hear words a lot of times and i don't
know what they
mean right so like the incumbent is the guy who's already in office right yeah
so if a president
has already done one term then he's the incumbent as he goes up to do the
second term right yeah and
he has to run against someone who's submitted by the other party well well he
he ultimately has to
run about he the other party you know is going to nominate somebody to run
against them so the
republicans will nominate somebody to run again but if you're a democrat if you're
popular within your
own party a lot of times you won't have a challenger from window within your
own party so you'll only have
to go to the prize fight you don't have to you know fight all the belucas who
are coming after you but
and who determines if they have to fight all the bull well it would be you know
me i i like i would
run against him but my father ran against lyndon johnson when you know lyndon
john in 68
lyndon johnson was an incumbent uh democratic president and my father
challenged him and and ultimately um
johnson withdrew uh and he pulled out of the way at raise and then my father
won the primaries um and
he was killed my father was killed on the night of the last night of the primaries
so june 6th
um he won you know the last primaries california south dakota and a couple of
others and he was killed
that night my uncle ted kennedy ran in 1980 against jimmy carter who was a
president of his own party
um so yeah it's not uncommon for for people to run against a president of their
own party and you
know i uh i've had a long friendship with biden i've known president biden for
at least 40 years oh wow
and uh and you know he has a statue a bust my father on the behind him in the
oval office if any picture
that you have of biden there's a a bust of my father you can call it up now um
and there's five
members of my family who are working in the administration in the biden
administration yeah
wow different you know different ways yeah yeah um and so uh do you think he'll
get the nomination from
his party for the 2024 well i think i could beat him in the uh and yeah that
you can see in that middle
one the second one from the right up there that one there's a there's a bust of
my father behind him
wow that's awesome that's so cool man that'd be cool if my were my dad yeah it's
wonderful um do you
think that he will get the yeah so i guess i have two questions because some of
the process i think i
can beat him if they give me a fair fight right okay but before that do you
think that they will he'll
get the nomination well i i think i could get the nomination okay if they gave
me a fair fight i see
do you think that you're currently getting a fair fight no why well because
they're they're doing you
know the democratic party is supposed to be neutral they're not supposed to
choose favorites but they
actually endorsed him a week after he declared and his campaign is being run
out of the democratic
party office which seems like convoluted yeah it's well it's not it's a
conflict and you know because
the party should be separate from the president even if they're of the same
yeah they're supposed to
be even if they're both democratic yeah the party should be neutral and say
look we're going to be the
referees in this fight it's like okay it's like if you went to a football game
and the referee in the
game was wearing the same uniform as you're the guys you were playing against
right you say hey hey yeah
yeah so that's what they're doing and what they've done is they've taken the
states that voted most
strongly against biden last time around and they've said if anybody visits
those if i visit those states
and no vote in that state will count in the election so if i go to new hampshire
which i did
any vote that i get in new hampshire will not count and if i get to what it for
me so if i beat
biden in new hampshire and i win all the delegates those delegates will not be
allowed into the convention
but how can they just say that isn't there like a democratic process that did
that overrides that you
would think but actually it the party makes its own rules and there was a you
know bernie sanders they did
the same thing to bernie sanders yeah they cooked me man and he sued them and
said you know you guys
were fit rigged the game against me you fixed it and the court said yes they
did fix it but actually
it's a private club and they're allowed to fix it they can make up any rules
they want they can do
anything they want so see this just leans so much more into like this stuff
that like people feel like
their vote yeah there you go matter court concedes dnc had the right to rig
primaries against sanders
and that and that's debbie wasserman schultz who
you know chair debbie wasserman schultz for violating the dnc chart about rigging
the democratic
presidential primaries for earlier killing against bernie sanders and she's the
one who tried to
silence me when i testified before congress a couple of weeks ago wow and so
anyway it just feels like
so it feels so dirty at every turn yeah i mean it's bad to me it's bad for the
country right now because
so many people think the whole system is rigged yeah that's what it feels like
man and um if my vote
doesn't matter and we should be i think we should the both parties should be
conducting elections that
are incredibly fair and everybody looks them and says okay this is a model that
america's the
exemplary democracy for the world should be and one thing you can say about
america is it has fair
elections and every vote gets counted and you know yeah it's starting to remind
me the articles i would
read in the papers of like venezuela a lot of the central american countries
where they would be um
there would be coups and stuff and they would be overriding the process because
they thought the
elections weren't fair you know or you know the soviet in the soviet union the
communist party they
said we're a democracy but the party would pick the candidate and that'd be the
only guy you can vote
for and that is exactly what they're doing here they're saying they're you know
they're good they're
saying the good news the bad news we have a democracy but there's only one guy
and everybody's got
to vote for him but do they have the right to do that because he's the
incumbent i understand they have
the right to do it within the democratic party process but how so what is your
path and to really
get to the presidential nomination for 2024 is there a path for you do you feel
like well if president
biden steps out but you know the decision kind of has to be made by october 15th
because they're that's
soon yeah because you'll know before halloween yeah the um october 15th um you
you have to start
uh qualifying in certain states so that you you have to declare whether you're
a democrat or an
independent or republican yeah and you can't a lot of people think well you can
run as a democrat and
then if you lose everything then you can just switch to independent and run on
independent but you can't
do that because a lot of states have sore loser laws and make it so that you
have to choose early
and you can't go you can't come in you know once you've chosen democrat you can't
switch independent
that's fair because every year they let odell beckham jr join another team
right before the super
bowl and i feel like it doesn't seem fair to anybody just i get that he's good
but it doesn't seem that
fair um so when do you have to so but you've already chosen that you're a
democrat right i mean you've
been a lifelong democrat is there a chance that you would run as an independent
do you look at that ever
like and how do you even evaluate that yeah i mean i i you know if they really
shut down the process
we're right now you know we're grappling with the dnc trying to get them to do
the right thing but if
they rig the process so that i can't possibly win which is how it's rigged
right now then i would have
to look at other options i would have to look at running as you know maybe
outside of the party or
something i don't know exactly what i do i'm hoping that they'll open up the
process and let me run
um you know we polled this week and i if if i if president biden steps down um
i i have a pretty
clear path to the nomination my numbers are better than any other democrats
including the vice president
kamala harris um so and then uh if he stays in and they give me a you know a
fair fight i think i can
beat him yeah um so wow so it's kind of it's tough to figure out kind of you're
kind of just navigating
the space huh who's ahead in the national polls well he beats me among
democrats in the national polls
but if you could get a third of people to switch that were republicans yeah and
a third yeah that's
the thing is that those polls aren't looking at the republicans who want to
vote for me or the
independence okay um if you can't get it run this year would you run in the
next next one no i'm
are you thinking that far ahead okay you're not no i'm not thinking all about
that okay
some people say that you are that the republican party like set you up to take
do you ever hear did
you hear about this yeah i hear that that i'm like a stalking horse for trump
and all i can say is
you know i don't believe that i'm just asking you i don't believe that well you
should ask me
i mean you shouldn't do it publicly like you just did really no no i'm just
kidding okay no you should
ask me yeah yeah but here's the thing here's the problem with that first of all
if the democrats make
rules that say i cannot win you know and then they complain about me running
somewhere else it's like
it's like the you know it's like a guy who murders his parents and then throws
himself on the mercy of
the court because he's an orphan yeah you know they're they're they're they're
trying to get public
sympathy for a problem that they created i hate when i see bananas foster on
the menu you know that's how
it goes but no i see what you're saying it's almost like they're playing two
cards that are trying
to do two different things but one of them kind of concedes that there's some
truth in the other one
yeah but the and then the other thing is that i take more votes from president
trump than i do from
president biden right so why would that help them yeah it's not helping them
yeah