Scion of US political dynasty, who had been challenging Joe Biden for Democratic nomination, expected to announce on Sunday

Robert F Kennedy Jr is reported to be ending his challenge to Joe Biden for the Democratic presidential nomination and run instead as an independent candidate, in a move that could upset the 2024 race for the White House.

Kennedy, 69 and a scion of a famous political dynasty – a son of the former US attorney general and New York senator Robert F Kennedy, and a nephew of the former president John F Kennedy – will announce his run in Pennsylvania on 9 October, according to Mediaite.

“Bobby feels that the Democratic National Committee is changing the rules to exclude his candidacy so an independent run is the only way to go,” the website quoted a “Kennedy campaign insider” as saying.

  • mycatiskai@lemmy.one
    23·
    1 year ago

    Someone in the Williamson campaign needs to get their shit together and make sure they are seriously working towards getting her on the ticket in multiple states. Now that this idiot is dropping them she should get moving.

    I know there is a lot of pressure on people working in her campaign to leave because they feel they will never be able to get a job in any other political job afterwards but she needs to get on more progressive shows and get the word out.

      • mycatiskai@lemmy.one
        45·
        1 year ago

        If a crystal orb lady supports tuition free college, strong unions, Medicare for all, shrinking the defense budget to pay for social services for everybody in your entire country then yeah the crystal orb lady is probably the person to vote for rather than a status quo that has been crushing everybody except the 1% of the top.

        The current president believes that crackers and wine are blood and flesh, the previous president was a fucking psychopath who believed in nothing but the almighty dollar. Maybe the world needs some person that believes in something a little different or just let people believe what they want to believe.

        • Dkarma@lemmy.world
          42·
          1 year ago

          I vote for the lesser of 2 evils cuz we don’t have ranked choice and orb lady is a sure loser.

          • III@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            1 year ago

            I am sure the sprit of his reply will be along the lines of “there’s no better protest than to hand the country over to fascists”.

            • mycatiskai@lemmy.one
              1·
              1 year ago

              Nah vote for Biden in the general election because Nazi fascists should be hung not running countries but don’t pretend that a primary isn’t happening like he currently is.

              If Marianne is on ballots in primaries then she is participating in your democratic process and part of that is giving people.the chance to go out and decide between Williamson and Biden. It doesn’t hurt Biden to have a primary challenger to debate unless he isn’t fit for a debate. If he isn’t fit for a debate against someone ostensibly on the same side to find the ideas that the Democrats want to support then how is he going to go against a fascist in a debate.