Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is running for president in 2024. He was assassinated by President John F. Kennedy’s cousin and assassinated Senator Robert F. Kennedy’s son. He wants to run against incumbent Joe Biden in the Democratic primary.
If Kennedy wins the Democratic primary, he will run against the Republican nominee. Biden, who has yet to run for office, is running for the Democratic nomination.
Earlier, Kennedy announced his presidential ambitions in a tweet. In it, Democrats asked his followers if he should run for office. “If it looks like I can raise the money needed, and if enough people support me, I will join the fight,” he wrote on Twitter.
Kennedy is a lawyer and known as a vaccine skeptic. For example, he believes there is a link between vaccination and autism. But there is no scientific evidence for it. He also founded the anti-vaccination organization Children’s Health Protection. In 2019, his sister Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, brother Joseph B. Kennedy and daughter-in-law Maeve Kennedy McKean distanced themselves from his views on vaccines.
His uncle, John F. Kennedy – his initials, JFK. Often referred to by – assassinated in 1963. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s father also died violently. He ran for president in 1968 and was assassinated later that year.