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RFK Jr. announces he will run as an independent candidate (www.politico.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on Monday he is abandoning his bid for the Democratic nomination for the White House in 2024.

“I’m here to declare myself an independent candidate for president of the United States,” Kennedy announced to a crowd of supporters at Independence Mall in Philadelphia. “We declare independence from the cynical elites who betray our hope and who amplify our divisions. And finally, we declare independence from the two political parties.”

His family name is almost synonymous with the Democratic Party, but Kennedy has determined that its primary nomination process was skewed in favor of President Joe Biden. That history, he said, made the decision personally painful for him.

Some members of the Kennedy family released a joint statement in response calling his announcement “deeply saddening” and “perilous for our country.”

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

? Seems more likely to appeal to MAGA conspiracy theorist voters than to Dems.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

A MAGA conspiracy theorist is deadset on Trump. There is no loss to Trumps base.

This directly siphons off the votes from low information potential dem voters. A solid chunk of my family and peer group have been 100% on the RFK jr train. There is a SIGNIFICANT population of people who would normally vote dem but are swayed by this kind of rhetoric.