RFK Jr claims Republicans, Democrats and CNN conspired to exclude him from debate

Independent candidate is polling at about 8%, but could be a spoiler in November contest between Trump and Biden

Robert F Kennedy Jr, the independent US presidential candidate polling at about 8%, won't be at tonight's Biden-Trump TV smackdown in Atlanta. But he's not taking the diss quietly, and has accused debate host CNN of colluding with the major party campaigns to exclude him.

In an email statement on Wednesday, the Kennedy campaign claimed that 71% of Americans want to see him on the debate stage, and in an act of counter-programming he plans an alternative real" debate on Elon's Musk's Twitter/X platform at the same time.