‘Afraid I would win’: RFK Jr. accuses opponents of ‘colluding’ to exclude him from debates

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Democrat turned independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. charges that President Biden and former President Trump "are trying to exclude me from their debate because they are afraid I would win."

Kennedy fired back in a social media posting hours after the Democratic president and his Republican predecessor in the White House agreed to face off in showdowns in June and early September.

A debate proposal from Biden that triggered the cascade of developments on Wednesday morning stated that "the debates should be one-on-one, allowing voters to compare the only two candidates with any statistical chance of prevailing in the Electoral College."

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Kennedy argued that "Presidents Trump and Biden are colluding to lock America into a head-to-head match-up that 70% say they do not want," as he referred to numerous national polls indicating many voters are far from thrilled with the 2024 election rematch between the 81-year-old president and his 77-year-old predecessor.

"These are the two most unpopular candidates in living memory. By excluding me from the stage, Presidents Biden and Trump seek to avoid discussion of their eight years of mutual failure including deficits, wars, lockdowns, chronic disease, and inflation," claimed