In his speech at the Republican Midterm Convention, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. exposed how the Democratic Party tried to shut him out of the 2024 presidential primary. “No voter ever cast a primary ballot for Kamala Harris,” Kennedy said. “No elected delegate was ever consulted. A party of no kings simply anointed a queen, handpicked by secretive party elites who nobody even knows who they were. They’re just faceless guys with lanyards who are calling all the shots from the upper decks of that convention center.”

HHS SECRETARY ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR.: In April 2023, I ran for president hoping to summons my party back to its bedrock values. The Democratic Party had lost faith in American voters and utterly, ironically lost faith in American democracy. They were convinced that they would lose the ballot box, they couldn’t win, and so they unveiled a lawfare strategy to prevent an election from occurring. They sued every candidate who dared to run against Joe Biden and then attempted to remove us all from the ballot. A lot of you think that the lawfare was just against Donald Trump. It was mainly against him, but they sued Dean Phillips, they sued Marianne Williamson, they sued Cornel West, they sued Donald Trump 50 times in 38 states to remove him from the ballot. And they sued me in 12 states to remove me from ballots where I had legally qualified. And then, this is almost comical, after I endorsed President Trump and I tried to remove myself from the ballot so that he could have my votes, they sued me to keep me on the ballot. I’m not joking. Oh, here was the Democratic Party that in my youth, the biggest issue that we had that my father and my uncle fought for was voting rights, and particularly in the southern states to guarantee that every American had a right to cast a ballot. And here’s that same party, 60 years later, using all of its ingenuity and all of its power to make sure that Americans could not vote for the candidates that they wanted to vote for. They excluded me from the debates, they canceled the primaries, the Democratic Party changed the rules to make sure I could not win and neither could the other people who were running as Democrats, no matter how many votes we got. And for the first time in history, they canceled their own convention. No voter ever cast a primary ballot for Kamala Harris. No elected delegate was ever consulted. The party of no kings simply anointed a queen, handpicked by secretive party elites who nobody even knows who they were. They’re just faceless guys with lanyards who are calling all the shots from the upper decks of that convention center. And nobody can see their face anymore than you can see the face of the people up there. But that’s who was making the decision. And then they canceled the convention and they held a coronation.

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