RFK Formally Declares Independent Run For President

The Guardian reports:

Robert F. Kennedy Jr has officially announced that he will be running for US president as an independent. “I’m here to declare myself an independent candidate for president of the United States,” Kennedy said to applause and chants. Kennedy added that he will be creating a new “Declaration of Independence” for the US. Kennedy claimed that a majority of Americans believe that Biden is “too old” to run for office and added that Trump faces several criminal charges.

The 69-year old had previously been running for the Democrat nomination for president, the only person to challenge Joe Biden for the nomination. But over the weekend, Kennedy teased a “much-anticipated announcement” about his campaign. Kennedy, a member of the Kennedy political family, has received backlash for peddling antisemitic conspiracy theories that Covid-19 was designed to spare Chinese and Ashkenazi Jews.

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