president and he wanted to debate jimmy carter. carter went down to defeat against ronald reagan. with us right now the hill senior political correspondent, hannah trudeau. what do you make of this, hannah? yeah, thanks, neil. so it s interesting. i mean, r.f.k. junior, he s not somebody that progressives want to claim as th election really
i think listen, the democratic party is not supposed to be the party of war. i m campaigning against us being the party of war. we re not supposed to be the party of fear, censorship, of pharma, of wall street, of the neocon s dictating our foreign policy. we re supposed to be the party of the american middle class. right now most of the american middle class feels that they re being ignored. neil: well, a lot of progressives might not entirely be in lock step with everything r.f.k. jr. is saying, but a good many of them would like to see him debate the president of the united states. and include mary an williamson in the mix. the fact of the matter is, r.f.k. jr. telling me a couple weeks ago that he doesn t think that will happen. it didn t happen for his uncle ted kennedy back in 1980 when he too was challenging an incumbent