‘Cuckoo For Cocoa Puffs’: CNN Analyst Rips RFK Jr’s ‘Gibberish’ Claim He Can Still Become President After Suspending Campaign

Republican strategist Doug Heye pulled no punches on Friday in reacting on CNN to RFK Jr.’s odd remarks while suspending his presidential campaign. Heye called Kennedy’s claims that he could still “end up in the White House” “cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.”

“I am simply suspending it and not ending it,” Kennedy said of his campaign, adding:

I am, my name will remain on the ballot in most states. If you live in a blue state. You can vote for me without harming or helping President Trump or Vice President Harris and it will apply. I encourage you to vote for me. And if enough of you do vote for me, and neither of the major party candidates wins 270 votes, which is quite possible. In fact, today our polling shows them tying it to 6969. And I could conceivably still end up in the White House in a contingent election.

Anchor Brianna Keilar summed up Kennedy’s remarks, “So he’s saying that he’s taken himself off of these ballot access challenges in states where he would be a spoiler. Right? These battleground states, like, tell me if I’ve got this right, Doug. But when it comes to a red state or a blue state, you can sort of if you want to vote for him, you can then register how you feel about him. And then in the crazy possible chance of a 269 269 tie between Trump and Harris, then maybe he can just ride that all the way to the White House.”

Heye replied, “Yeah, I was watching that. And you know, Donald Trump last week stood and said, in front of a bunch of groceries and said, ‘I haven’t seen any Cheerios in a long time.’ I had Cheerios for breakfast. This was cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs, and trying to get any logic out of that is… good luck with that! Because it’s one you can’t understand what he says. Two, if you can, you can understand what he says and reminded of a line from Mel Brooks’s Blazing Saddles. When somebody gets up and gives an indecipherable speech, he says, ‘Who can argue with that? That’s authentic frontier gibberish.’ And that’s exactly what that is.

Anchor Boris Sanchez later ended the segment, “And yet his supporters may be confused because we’re even confused based on his own statements.”

“Now, we’ve gotten a fresh statement from his campaign clarifying previous remarks in which, initially in his court fighting in Pennsylvania, it said that he would be endorsing Donald Trump. His campaign came out and said, that’s not what’s happening. Then he, in his remarks, said that he was throwing his support behind Trump over the war in Ukraine. What he described, calling it the war on our children. And, chronic disease was another one. It’s hard to make sense of it,” he concluded.

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