Robert F. Kennedy Jr. put President Joe Biden on notice and filed paperwork to challenge Biden in the Dem primary. Biden already has one challenger, but no one knows who she is and she is not expected to mount a serious bid.
But name recognition is everything in politics, especially in the primary, and there is no bigger name in American politics than Kennedy. And that is bad news for Biden.
Kennedy is the nephew of the late President John F. Kennedy and the son of former New York senator Robert F. Kennedy. Since posting on Twitter that he was thinking about running, he has turned up the heat on Biden.
He said earlier: “Help me decide whether to run for President. If it looks like I can raise the money and mobilize enough people to win, I’ll jump in the race. If I run, my top priority will be to end the corrupt merger between state and corporate power that has ruined our economy, shattered the middle class, polluted our landscapes and waters, poisoned our children, and robbed us of our values and freedoms.
“Together we can restore America’s democracy.”
He said two days before he filed paperwork to run:
“The collapse of U.S. influence over Saudi Arabia and the Kingdom’s new alliances with China and Iran are painful emblems of the abject failure of the Neocon strategy of maintaining U.S. global hegemony with aggressive projections of military power.
“China has displaced the American Empire by deftly projecting, instead, economic power. Over the past decade, our country has spent trillions bombing roads, ports, bridges, and airports.
“China spent the equivalent building the same across the developing world.
“The Ukraine war is the final collapse of the Neocon’s short-lived “American Century.”
“The Neocon projects in Iraq and Ukraine have cost $8.1 trillion.
“Hollowed out our middle class.
“Made a laughingstock of U.S. military power and moral authority.
“Pushed China and Russia into an invincible alliance.
“Destroyed the dollar as the global currency.
“Cost millions of lives and done nothing to advance democracy or win friendships or influence.”
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— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) March 10, 2023
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— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) April 5, 2023
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