Gingrich-RFK JR Sets Democrats Back

Former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich commented on Fox Business Friday that independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. delivered a significant setback to the Democrats with his recent speech, describing Kennedy as a “natural ally” of former President Donald Trump.

Kennedy announced that he would withdraw his name from the ballot in key swing states to avoid splitting the vote and openly expressed his support for Trump in those crucial areas. Gingrich pointed out that Kennedy’s decision underscored what he referred to as the “corruption” within the Democratic Party and emphasized how both Kennedy and Trump have been challenging the political establishment.

“I think that it’s a real blow to the Democrats … when Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says my relatives would not belong to the modern Democratic Party, I think he really knocks their whole democracy thing out and points out this is really a party of bosses and it’s a party of corruption,” Gingrich said. “So I think he’s very effective, particularly for younger people, in saying, ‘Look, you’ve gotta look at how bad the Democrats have become. I think when the Biden-Harris — and I want to emphasize, Biden-Harris Administration — refused to offer him Secret Service protection when his uncle and his father had both been assassinated, I thought it was one of the most despicable things I’ve ever seen an American presidency do. I think he has every right to feel that he was up against a machine. The machine did everything it could to destroy him and so he is psychologically the natural ally of Trump because they are basically both taking on the establishment. They basically both have had the establishment do everything it could to destroy them.”

Since Vice President Kamala Harris secured her party’s presidential nomination following President Joe Biden’s decision to withdraw from the reelection race on July 21, the polling numbers between Harris and former President Donald Trump have been closely contested. A recent poll conducted by The New York Times and Siena College indicates that Harris is ahead of Trump in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, all of which are key states for Trump if he hopes to secure a victory in the upcoming November election.

“Three great causes drove me to enter this race in the first place, primarily, and these are the principal causes that persuaded me to leave the Democratic Party and run as an independent, and now to throw my support to President Trump,” Kennedy said.

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