‘The Five’ reacts to RFK, Jr’s VP pick

thanks so much Kevin and it's the moment that's been terrifying team Biden for months our Robert Kennedy Jr officially naming attorney and entrepreneur Nicole shanan for his running mate as his independent campaign for president heats up 70% of Americans say that they don't want to have to choose between President Trump and President Biden they don't want to choose between the lesser of two evils again both the Democrats and Republicans are looking at those po results and they're devising ways t

o keep me off the ballot they're trying to keep me off the ballot and to frighten you into choosing between the two tired and unpopular heads of the uni party and team Biden is launching an allout effort to stop RFK Jr from securing any votes the president's campaign staff has reportedly plotted an entire operation to take Town Kennedy and the liberal media is more than happy to play along my view is thir parties they're like cockroaches in the kitchen okay it's not what they carry off that upse

ts you it's what they fall into and foul up let's be clear a vote for third party is basically a defacto vote for Donald Trump I don't think it's a smart move to spend a lot of energy attacking Robert F Kennedy Jr uh I think he's probably a marginal candidate I don't think he has a big impact on the election I do worry that Bob AG just taking some percentage of votes from Biden could shift the election and lead to Trump's election meanwhile Joe and kamla are finally hitting the campaign trial to

gether in North Carolina the Democratic Duo trying to ramp up support for the administration's deeply unpopular bics you notice leading economists aren't making much fun of biomics anymore they're thinking maybe it works to build from the middle out and the bottom up all right Dan I'll go to you first you know here we've got Ken uh Robert Kennedy Jr he's anti- big Tech he's anti- censorship he's Pro environment who does he take votes from well right now I think both Biden the Biden team came out

very strong against him but the Trump pack did as well because right now RFK is polling around 24% and if you look at an election that's really really close if someone is even going to take you know 10% it could make a big difference and if you wonder if that's true asked Hillary Clinton about Jill Stein in Michigan back in 2016 it makes a it makes a difference and the the Democratic National Committee for the first time ever has stood up an actual formal office within the DNC to just specifica

lly go after third party candidates I'm Shanahan curious I'd like to know more about her I don't I think it's interesting that there's somebody like her who is willing to throw herself into the ring I don't know if she knows what's about to hit her and you know Silicon Valley is not the easiest place to be can be you know knock down drag out fights out there but the scrutiny she's about to go under is going to be intense um I was surprised in a way that it wasn't Mike row because he was within t

he mix he was on the short list of RFK Jr and I believe that you know there had been even conversations and I think he would have been a really interesting choice if you were trying to figure out where to get blue collar workers in the middle of a political realignment that the Republicans and the Democrats are fighting over if there is an independent streak in America and we know that there is Gallup says that there's 30% of people say they're Republican 30% say they're Democrat and the rest sa

y that they're independent they usually end up voting Republican or Democrat but if there was a viable third choice I thought that Mike Row was as a excellent Communicator somebody who brings a lot of credibility with him to that fight with that with those voters I thought that might have been interesting but he chose Shanahan and now we shall see can I also just say I think it's pretty interesting that this is I think the 472nd makeover of KLA Harris and she's being sent out to shore up shaky B

iden voters I mean that doesn't make sense to me well before we get to uh KLA what what do you think Jesse the fact that one of the kennedies is saying it's a def facto vote for Donald Trump and you know apparently RFK is only on one state ballot so far he's on a couple but not all of them it's a process and one of the reasons he tapped Shanahan is because she's got Deep Pockets who can sell fund and help get him access a lot of people that I know who like RFK weren't thrilled with the choice th

ey were expect expecting someone a little bit more electrifying to kind of jolt that ticket and continue the momentum there's a lot we don't know about her but she has a lot of money and you need a lot of money if you're running a third party if you look at the polls judge Joe's losing to Trump head-to-head in every Battleground still if you introduce RFK he pulls from both but he pulls more from Biden right now he's pulling in double digits in Arizona Nevada and Wisconsin and basically at 89% i

n the rest of the Swing States if he gets on ballots and continues to get more FaceTime he's going to be in double digits in all the major Battlegrounds and Biden will lose this election if he performs like these numbers say it looks like RFK is just going after the youth vote he's trying to pick someone who has some young energy she's in her 30s and she's telegenic and she's mysterious so people are thinking well who is she what does she believe right now we know RFK Jr he's intellectually curi

ous he doesn't speak like a politician he's for the environment but he's also for an all of the above energy deal he's got a great relationship with the black community but isn't Pander he's a capitalist but he thinks there should be checks and balances on corporate abuse so I think he's a smart man I like him I think he's a good guy I don't think he's going to win the election but I think he's going to play a major role you know Jessica what Jesse is referencing is the fact that you know Kenned

y is polling well in a lot of areas I mean you take a Jill Stein she was at 1% and you know she but it depends on how close thee right right yeah it wasn't just Michigan when you look at the margins she heard her as well in Wisconsin and in Pennsylvania so there's your blue wall right that's what Joe Biden needs to run he needs to run exactly the same map if not better than he did in 2020 and he certainly is under a lot of pressure in Arizona and Georgia which were huge pickups for him where he'

s down about five points to Donald Trump in the most recent polling um I with the RFK Jr issue it's it's not anti-democratic to run against your opponents that's what you're supposed to do RFK Jr isn't even running as a Democrat anymore he's fully representing another party he has views and policies that are Divergent from what Democrats are supportive of and he is now going to be obviously heavily funded and we should note that uh Nicole Shanahan was the person who paid for the Super Bowl ad um

that the Kennedy's flipped out about um but he's also funded by Timothy melon who's a mega donor who also gives to Trump so 20 million went to RFK Jr 15 million to Trump and Steve Bannon encouraged RFK Jr to run saying he'd be a useful Chaos Agent if Steve Bannon is into you you are not good for Democrats and of course the Democrats are going to stand up and do something about it and to add to Dana's point they put Liz Smith in charge of this outfit in the DNC that's not just we're taking this

seriously that is we are going to the walls on this there is no one better at figuring out a good communication strategy we probably wouldn't even know about p p Buddha judge let alone he would be the transportation secretary if not for Liv Smith so she's the one to blame yes thank you do what you want and he didn't collapse the bridge I just want to say something about uh what's going on in the polling there has been quite a significant Biden bounce since the State of the Union so today that he

got to North Carolina he has visited every single Battleground State and there were new swing state polls out this morning from Bloomberg and morning consult that showed him gaining in six and seven of the Swing States the only state where Trump is gaining is in Georgia but he's still losing in all the battle yeah actually no he's not losing in let let try to get Greg here I would to get Greg to the to the extent that Jessica is talking about uh Biden getting doing better with the polling isn't

it du to kamla yes absolutely she really is the star here I don't think you know I don't think RFK Jr pulls from Dems or Republicans I think he is going right where he's supposed to go which is the independent V voters he's a perfect independent candidate he's a little left he's a little right he's a little bit exotic he's an outsider he's a fresh and forward thinker he's not as ripped as I am but you know but he talk but he does he's doing something no one else is doing and that's talking abou

t nutrition in food and our food supply in the United States which is something we don't like to talk about because that's where we make our money but it's like it it you know we can see that we're not a healthy country I don't know this I don't know this lady at all uh it wouldn't have been my choice my choice would have been Kennedy so because he needs Libertarians right oh our Kennedy I thought you meant one of his k no so it would be two kennedies for the price of one and you get and he gets

libertarian so I think I think that it's about a split for uh both candidates I will in terms of the Democrats going after third party candidates this is a party that claims to be saving democracy they're actually saving democracy for themselves right the running theme in all areas of the Democrat the modern regressive left of the democratic party is the worst thing in the world is another choice right they need to protect their incompetence by eliminating comparisons to things that are actuall

y more competent so this is why they keep like for example if you look at elections right the targeting of candidates using nefarious means look at Trump and now what they're trying to do to uh RFK Jr look at education right blocking school choice preferring to put kids in you know minimum security prisons that we call Public Schools then you look at speech you know looking at difference of opinions and calling them miss or disinformation or hate speech right because you know people can't hear b

etter ideas uh that might be compared to your irrational delusions Dei which stands for didn't earn it uh you know that's replaced replaced meritocracy which is based on the best person winning so now you have quotas you know taking from a depleted pool of deserving applicants in every aspect there is a war on competition they don't like to win fair and square well said thank you okay click here to subscribe to the Fox News YouTube page to catch our hottest interviews and most compelling analysi

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