Former President Donald Trump remarked on Thursday that he has no plans to debate Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., saying that RFK needs to significantly boost his poll numbers “before he’s credible.”
When asked for comment on Kennedy’s campaign performance during a break in his New York fraud trial, Trump seemed largely unimpressed with the third-party challenger’s progress.
“RFK? I don’t know anything about him,” Trump told reporters. “Look, RFK is polling very low. He’s not a serious candidate. They say he hurts Biden. I don’t know who he hurts; he might hurt me, I don’t know.”
“He has very low numbers,” Trump added. “Certainly not numbers he can debate with, and he’s gotta get his numbers up a lot higher before he’s credible. But the numbers he’s taking away, they say will be against Biden, but I don’t know; I’m not so sure. It could be a little bit against me, but I don’t see him as a factor.”
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According to the latest polling averages, Trump currently holds a slight lead over incumbent President Joe Biden, while RFK ranks ahead of the other longshot candidates, Cornel West (Independent) and Jill Stein (Green Party). Though Kennedy is only polling at 10 percent compared to Trump’s 41 percent and Biden’s 39 percent, he has secured ballot access in the key battleground states of Michigan, Nevada, and North Carolina.
In the past, Trump has called Kennedy a “Radical Left Liberal who’s been put in place in order to help Crooked Joe Biden,” but he has also claimed that RFK is “going to be taking votes from Crooked Joe Biden.”
While RFK has expressed hopes of playing spoiler to both Trump and Biden in his bid for the White House, he said last month that he could “make the argument that President Biden is a much worse threat to democracy” than Trump is.
Connor Walcott is a staff writer for Valuetainment.com. Follow Connor on X and look for him on VT’s “The Unusual Suspects.”
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