Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is urging Democrats to have an "open process" for picking their presidential nominee. This comes after President Biden announced he’s 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 said on "Fox & Friends" Monday.
However, he sees no signs that the Democratic Party plans to do this.
"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," said Kennedy. He was blocked by the party from challenging the president in the primaries.
Kennedy, who switched to running as an independent, will not seek the party's 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 said.
Kennedy added, "if they [Democrats] looked at the polling, I'm the only candidate who can beat Donald Trump."
With VP Kamala Harris now running with Biden's backing, Kennedy said she has some "explaining to do" about hiding the president's 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."
He continued, "Whoever she runs against, she has a big vulnerability … because she's been the concealer in chief."
Speaking Sunday 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 left the party after it blocked his bid to challenge Biden. He criticized the Democratic National Committee for hiding Biden's condition.
"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," Kennedy argued.