Megan Lebowitz is a politics reporter for NBC News.
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Monday that he sees President Joe Biden as more of a threat to democracy than presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump. In an interview on CNN, Kennedy argued that Biden 'has used the federal agencies to censor political speech,' appearing to refer to a case before the Supreme Court that could affect the level of contact between government officials and social media companies regarding content removal.
The Democratic National Committee blasted Kennedy in a statement after the interview. 'With a straight face Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that Joe Biden is a bigger threat to democracy than Donald Trump because he was barred from pushing conspiracy theories online,' DNC senior adviser Mary Beth Cahill said. 'There is no comparison to summoning a mob to the Capitol and promising to be a dictator on day one.' 'Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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