‘Every Time I See Her Speak, I Fall A Little Bit More In Love With Her’: RFK Jr Praises Running Mate

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00:00 [Applause]

00:02 Yeah!

00:03 I want to say a couple of words about Nicole.

00:08 When we chose Nicole, it was always, we've seen throughout our history,

00:14 that people who, presidential candidates, who chose unknown candidates as their vice president

00:23 have historically run into a lot of problems.

00:26 Because those people who are inexperienced in national politics,

00:32 often times when they're exposed to it, they collapse.

00:36 Any kind of issues they have are amplified.

00:41 And they end up looking bad.

00:45 And I have watched Nicole since the day of our announcement,

00:51 and what she went through has been extraordinary.

00:55 She didn't spend her lifetime thinking I'm going to be vice president of the United States.

01:01 I called her on the telephone and said, "Do you want to be vice president of the United States?"

01:06 And she said, "Let me think about it."

01:10 And then we had dinner about three nights later, and she said, "I can do it."

01:15 But you know, I'm worried about it, and other people are.

01:20 Because you don't know how people are going to hold up when you're walking into a buzz off.

01:25 Where you're vilified, you're marginalized, you're derided, you're defamed.

01:30 All of the things that I've been through, and I'm used to it.

01:33 I've been going through this for most of my adult life.

01:36 But to have that whole bang on you in a two-week period, or a three-week or four-week period,

01:43 and to be able to withstand it, and to come up and do a speech like that,

01:48 where every time I see her speak, I fall a little bit more in love with her.

02:04 Because you don't see how these presidential candidates, most of the presidential candidates we have today,

02:12 they sound like they're doing a satire of Veep.

02:16 And the stuff that they're talking about is inane, it's cliches, it's panaceas and shibboleths,

02:25 and simplifications and bumper sticker slogans.

02:29 And that's not what you hear from Nicole.

02:32 You hear a lecture of soils.

02:39 There's no political scientist in the world that would tell you you've got to do a lecture on soils.

02:46 They love it.

02:48 Nobody would tell her to do that.

02:50 Nobody would advise her.

02:52 And yet, she does it, and we all love her, because we see the authenticity, we see the integrity,

03:00 we see the compassion for other people, for the creatures with whom we share this planet.

03:09 And you don't hear that from our political leaders.

03:14 You don't hear that we're all part of a giant family, and that the microbes are part of it.

03:19 The soil is part of it.

03:21 The plants are part of it.

03:23 And that's what we need for an anasartic like this.

03:30 [Applause]

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