Jesse VenturaThe former Minnesota governor, who is not elected on either the Democratic or Republican ticket, confidently declared on Thursday that, if given national voting rights and a spot in the presidential debates, , he can actually defeat not only Donald Trump but the President Joe Biden.
ABOVE CNN'S Out frontVentura, who has not held elected office since 2003, was first asked about running as an independent presidential candidate. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and whether he would vote for him.
“I don't know yet,” Ventura told host Erin Burnett, before praising the vaccine skeptic whose candidacy has motivated many family members support Biden. “RFK and I have our differences. I met with him about the VP job. One evening we met for over two hours and discussed it, and I really admired him. He has every right to run and he will probably get a lot of votes.”
Kennedy, who guaranteed Ventura also emphasized that a spot on the ballot in the battleground state of Michigan in November is not a “reveal” candidate.
As for Trump, who flirted with a Reform Party-backed presidential campaign while Ventura was governor, Ventura was much less kind.
“The Donald Trump of 2000 is not the Donald Trump of today — plain and simple,” he said. “Back then, he was a Democrat and pro-choice. Today he is extremely right and anti-choice. You know, he's not the same person… and the truth is that Donald Trump, because he changes, he never tells the truth.”
Ventura ruled out being chosen as Trump's running mate.
Former governor and professional wrestler who supported the Green Party in the 2020 election and discover the president bid on that ticket before deciding against it, then envisioned a truly unlikely scenario.
“If I had access to the ballot in all 50 states and were allowed to debate, I could defeat these two major party candidates,” Ventura declared. Doing so will be easier than his gubernatorial victory in 1998 because he said Trump and Biden are more unpopular than his opponents in Minnesota.
