Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Registers As A Democrat To Run For President

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an environmentalist as well as anti-vaccine campaigner, has submitted paperwork to the FEC so that he can run as a Democrat for presidential elections in 2024.

John E. Sullivan, his committee treasurer, verified the submission on Wednesday. According to his party, Kennedy will formally declare his candidature on 19th April in Boston. The 68-year-old, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is the nephew of John F. Kennedy, our late President, and the child of Robert F. Kennedy, a former senator of New York, an attorney general of the United States, and slain contender for president in 1968.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has long been an opponent of vaccines. He created an anti-vaccine group Children’s Health Defense and has propagated debunked theories tying vaccinations to autism. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. also blasted the federal government’s response to the pandemic and the COVID-19 vaccination.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. All Set To Run For Presidential Elections 

Last month, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tweeted that he had been thinking about running for president. He declared, that he would join the race if it appeared that he could gather the funds and organize enough people to win.

From 1995 until 2003, his sibling Kathleen held the office of governor lieutenant of Maryland. From 1987 until 1999, his other cousin Joseph served as a congressman for Massachusetts. Also, Chris Kennedy, his brother, tried unsuccessfully in 2018 to become president of Illinois. Joe Kennedy the Third, a former Massachusetts representative who failed to win a Senate race in 2020, was the last Kennedy to win elective office. The current ambassador of the US to Australia is Caroline Kennedy, a daughter of the late President Kennedy.

President Joseph Biden is anticipated to declare his campaign for another term, and the Democratic presidential primary for 2024 is just starting to take form. This month, novelist Marianne Williamson started a second, extremely unlikely bid for the nomination for president by the Democrats.