Environmental lawyer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission to run for president in 2024, jumping in as a Democrat, multiple news outlets are reporting.
The filing by Kennedy, 69, who has gained headlines in recent years for anti-vaccine views, was confirmed Wednesday by his campaign treasurer, John E. Sullivan, said CNN.
Kennedy is also widely known as the son of former New York senator, nationwide attorney general and assassinated 1968 presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy. And he is the nephew of President John F. Kennedy, who also died at an assassin’s hand in 1963.
[He hasn’t got a chance in Hades, but perhaps he might become a catalyst in the way Eugene McCarthy provided in 1968 against an unpopular incumbent Democrat president. Even that’s a long shot in this case, though. — Ed]
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