In Philadelphia, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced he would run as an Independent candidate in the 2024 presidential election.
RFK wanted to challenge President Joe Biden in the Democratic primary, but we all knew he wouldn’t win.
From Fox News:
“Something is stirring in us, saying it doesn’t have to be this way,” Kennedy said, adding that Americans are “ready to reclaim their freedom and independence.””But that’s not all, I’m here to join you and make a new Declaration of Independence for our entire nation,” Kennedy said. “We declare independence from the corporations that have hijacked our government.”Kennedy also said that he and the crowd assembled declared independence from both political parties as well as the “mercenary media.”Kennedy called for unity in the country and said that politicians getting “all of us to hate each other is all a part of their scam.”
“It’s painful for me to part ways with the Democratic Party, the Party of my father and my uncles and cousins,” RFK wrote in an op-ed published on the Fox News website.
Democrats fear third-party candidates in this election because they could take away votes from Biden. They blame Ralph Nader for 2000 and 2004 and that Green Party lady in 2016.
Of course, Ross Perot likely caused Republican President George H. W. Bush to lose the 1992 election. I doubt Perot had a hand in the 1996 election.
I don’t know how many Republican voters will vote for RFK Jr. He’s not a conservative.
Activist Cornell West also will run as an independent. The No Labels group might run a candidate, too.
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