RFK Jr. Speaks at the Republican National Committee Midterm Convention
What this video covers
This is an alternate upload of the same address Kennedy gave to the Republican National Committee’s 2026 midterm convention in Dallas — his account of leaving the Democratic Party, joining forces with President Trump, and the first claimed results of the MAHA agenda, delivered on the first anniversary of Charlie Kirk’s assassination. This upload is about a minute longer than the FOX 4 version because it opens with a short “Real Food” cooking-show promo featuring Kennedy before the speech begins.
Key points
- The upload opens with a roughly one-minute promo in which Kennedy introduces himself as “your Secretary of Health and Human Services” and pitches a real-food cooking concept: he says that thanks to President Trump “we flipped the food pyramid” and put real food back at the center of the American table, and that he is traveling the country connecting with celebrity chefs to show families how to cook nutritious, affordable meals with real ingredients.
- In the speech itself, Kennedy says that at 72 — after attending Democratic conventions since 1960 and keynoting several — he would have bet anything he would never speak at a Republican convention, and he portrays the old party of Franklin Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy as the party of tax cuts, strong defense, free speech and merit.
- He argues Democrats abandoned the Bill of Rights during COVID: censoring dissenting scientists and doctors, shutting down his own social media accounts 37 hours into the Biden administration (his account), closing churches for a year while liquor stores stayed open, shielding pharmaceutical companies from jury trials, and closing 3 million businesses without due process, by his figures.
- Kennedy accuses Democrats of “lawfare” — suing rival candidates including Dean Phillips, Marianne Williamson and Cornel West, suing Trump 50 times in 38 states and Kennedy in 12 states over ballot access — and of installing Kamala Harris without a single primary vote: “a party that doesn’t believe in kings simply crowned a queen.”
- He recounts Trump calling him within three hours of the Butler, Pennsylvania shooting, and says their talks covered drug prices, farmers, ending corporate capture of the regulatory agencies, gold-standard science and — his top priority — ending the chronic disease epidemic and restoring children’s health.
- He credits Charlie Kirk with spending nearly a year working to bring him and Trump together, and marks the first anniversary of Kirk’s assassination by saying Kirk believed Americans of different political traditions must keep talking to each other.
- Kennedy claims the administration’s results include real food sales up 8% in 2025, obesity down 7% after 40 years of increases, and preliminary CDC data suggesting a 30-year decline in life expectancy has been reversed, and he closes by urging the election of a Republican Congress.