Former Independent presidential contender Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took a verbal shot at Vice President Kamala Harris over her much-maligned “word salad” responses, saying the country needs a competent and coherent leader, especially now.

In an interview with NewsNation’s Chris Cuomo, Kennedy, whose last name is a legacy in Democratic Party circles, explained why he is now backing the Republican ticket of former President Donald Trump and Ohio Sen. JD Vance.

At one point in the segment, Cuomo asked why Kennedy did not “stay neutral and command the attention of both sides as long as you could for the duration of this campaign?”

After explaining that he did not see any path to victory for himself, RFK Jr. then focused on why he believed Harris wasn’t up to the job of being president.

“I think we need to have a president who can give an interview, who can articulate a vision,” Kennedy began. He then referenced her stumbling responses in the past, adding that the country needs a president “who can put together an English sentence, who can articulate and defend her policies and her record, and who can engage in a debate and regular debates [and] unscripted appearances.”

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He added: “Harris’s speech at the convention made it very clear that she will continue the warfare state. She’s bragging about how she sees warfare as the frontline tool of American foreign policy.”

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RFK Jr. tells Chris Cuomo he doesn’t believe Kamala Harris is worthy enough to be President:

“I had no way to grow and our polling was showing that if I stayed in the race, vice president Harris would win, and I did not want that outcome. I don’t think that vice president Harris… pic.twitter.com/k8dFHxHRmd

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The vice president finally agreed to a sit-down interview more than 35 days after essentially being anointed as the Democratic Party presidential candidate by Joe Biden, but even within the friendly confines of CNN, she still struggled with her responses.

Conservative activists and media outlets took to X to comment specifically on a clip from host Dana Bash’s interview with Harris, where the VP discussed the reasons behind her evolving policy positions since assuming the Democratic presidential nomination.

In the clip of the interview, Bash asked, “Generally speaking, how should voters look at some of the changes that you’ve made? … Is it because you have more experience now, and you’ve learned more about the information? Is it because you were running for president in a Democratic primary? And should they feel comfortable and confident that what you’re saying now is going to be your policy moving forward?”

“Dana, I think the most important and most significant aspect of my policy perspective and decisions is my values have not changed,” Harris admitted. “You mentioned the Green New Deal. I have always believed, and I’ve worked on it, that the climate crisis is real, that it is an urgent matter to which we should apply metrics that include holding ourselves to deadlines around time. We did that with the Inflation Reduction Act.”

“Gobbledygook,” conservative commentator Steve Guest wrote on the X platform. “The definition of a deadline is ‘the latest time or date by which something should be completed’.”

Noah Rothman, senior writer at the National Review, called her response “rambling.”

Charles C. W. Cooke, a British-American journalist, described the clip as an “instant classic.”

“Undefeated. She’s still got it—even as the nominee,” he quipped.

The X account for The Blaze referred to the comment as “word salad,” which is a term Harris critics often use to describe her often confusing responses to questions.