RFK2 Announces Independent Run

Abandons the party of his father and uncles for 2024 bid.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. this weekend declared that he would continue his quixotic run for the presidency as an independent, dropping his bid to challenge incumbent President Joe Biden for the 2024 Democratic nomination.

Kennedy notably made the announcement in Philadelphia, the site of Independence Hall, where the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776.

“I’m here to join you in making a new declaration of independence for our entire nation. We declare independence from the corporations that have hijacked our government. And we declare independence from … Wall Street, from Big Tech, from Big Pharma from Big AG, from the military contractors and their lobbyists, and we declare independence from the mercenary media that is here to fortify all of the corporate orthodoxies from their advertisers and to urge us to hate our neighbors and fear our friends. And 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 and the corrupt interests that dominate them and the entire rigged system ….”

The Kennedy name has been nearly synonymous with the Democratic Party for much of the last century. RFK Jr.’s father and two of his uncles, John F. and Edward Kennedy, all served in the U.S. Senate as Democrats. JFK went on to become president as a Democrat, and Robert senior was on the cusp of securing the Democratic nomination for president in 1968 when he was assassinated.