RFK Jr. To Announce That He Is Running For President As An Independent: Report | Eastern North Carolina Now

    Publisher's Note: This post appears here courtesy of the The Daily Wire. The author of this post is Ryan Saavedra.

    Democrat presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is reportedly set to announce that he will run for president as an Independent.

    Kennedy is expected to make the announcement early next month while in Pennsylvania, according to a report from Mediaite.

    The report said that Kennedy is planning "attack ads" against the Democrat Party that will be aired prior to his announcement.

    A campaign insider told the publication, "Bobby feels that the DNC is changing the rules to exclude his candidacy so an independent run is the only way to go."

    Shortly after Mediaite's report was published, Kennedy released a video on X saying that he would be in Philadelphia on October 9 "to make a major announcement at the very birthplace of our nation."

    "I'm not going to tell you right now exactly what that announcement will be," he said. "I can say, though, that if you've been waiting to come to one of my public events, this will be the one to come to. I'll be speaking about a sea change in American politics and what your part and my part is in that change."

    "A lot of Americans who had previously given up any hope that real change would ever come through the American electoral process, have begun to find new hope in my candidacy," he said. "And I understand the deeply felt concern that people have about the way corruption has overtaken our government."

    Kennedy took shots at the leadership of both political parties - showing footage of President Joe Biden, former President Donald Trump, and numerous top figures in Congress - making clear that he was positioning himself from outside the Democrat Party.

    "I want to tell you now what I've come to understand after six months of campaigning, there is a path to victory, the hope we are feeling isn't some kind of trick of the mind," he said. "We all recognize that there's a genuine possibility of national transformation, and its source is the goodness of the American people. Our government may be crooked. But our people are kind, brave, and caring."

    "So how are we going to win against the established Washington interests?" he continued. "It's not through playing the game by the corrupt rules that the corrupt powers and the vested interests have rigged to keep us all in their thrall. Instead, we're going to have to rewrite the assumptions and change the habits of American politics."