The liberal media’s effort to help President Joe Biden clear the decks for his waltz to the 2024 Democratic nomination is prompting a long-shot challenger to claim he is getting the Trump treatment.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., pushing back on his bad press, said the media are making up stories about him to look bad.
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And he told SiriusXM’s The Briefing with Steve Scully that he feels the pro-Biden press is “frantic” with fear that he might keep rising in the polls and present a real challenge to the president.
“There seems to be an almost frantic need to discredit me, to marginalize me, to vilify me,” he told interviewer Scully, formerly the top interviewer with C-SPAN. He is currently the senior vice president and top spokesman for the Bipartisan Policy Center
“People are reduced,” Kennedy said, “to name calling and to outright invention. I, you know, I read some of these articles, and they’re just a string of distortions and of outright deceptions.”
Kennedy went so far as to urge voters to hunt elsewhere than the corporate media for stories on him since the popular press is filled with stories distorting and mocking his positions on issues such as the coronavirus vaccine.
“There is not a charitable view toward me in the mainstream media,” Kennedy said, adding, “The only thing I would say is that I would urge people not to believe the things that they’re reading about me in the mainstream media, but, you know, listen to my own words and not accept the characterizations as necessarily true.”
Kennedy has recently been on a media tour to promote his campaign, and it appears to be working. While he remains behind Biden by double digits, a YouGov survey said voters view him more favorably than Biden.
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One of his top goals, he told Scully, was to win in New Hampshire and build on that for a national victory.
“We have a 50-state strategy. We’re putting organizations together right now in all 50 states. I’m in Vermont today, and I’m meeting with the leadership of our state committee in this state, and we’re doing that all around the country. So we plan to fight on the ground in every state in this country to get the Democratic nomination,” he said.