Fact check: RFK Jr. claimed Biden was mentioned just twice at the RNC. It was nearly 400 times
During a Friday speech announcing the suspension of his independent presidential campaign, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made a wildly inaccurate claim about the extent to which President Joe Biden was mentioned at the Republican National Convention in July.
Facts First: Kennedy’s claim about Biden mentions at the Republican National Convention is not even close to true. A New York Times analysis of all the speeches at the RNC found that the word “Biden” was spoken a total of 393 times. The Republican vice presidential nominee, Sen. JD Vance, said the word “Biden” 12 times in his own convention speech.
Trump himself said “Biden” twice in his convention speech (during a single reference), but Kennedy’s claim was about the Republicans’ four-day gathering as a whole.
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