Robert F. Kennedy Jr is an environmental lawyer and anti-vaccine activist. son of former New York senator, United States attorney general, and presidential candidate assassinated in 1968, Robert F. Kennedy. He is the nephew of the late former President John F. Kennedy.
Environmental lawyer and anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. filed documents with the Federal Election Commission to run for president of the United States (USA) in 2024 as a Democrat. The information was confirmed on Wednesday, April 5, by his campaign treasurer, John E. Sullivan.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr, 69, is the son of former New York Senator, US Attorney General and presidential candidate assassinated in 1968, Robert F. Kennedy. He is the nephew of the late former President John F. Kennedy.
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Kennedy Jr has pushed for discredited claims linking vaccines and autism and founded the anti-vaccine organization Children’s Health Defense. He has expressed his opposition to the coronavirus vaccine and has criticized the federal government’s handling of the pandemic.
In 2019, her sister Kathleen, her brother Joseph, and her niece Maeve, expressed their anti-vaccination views in an opinion piece from Politico magazine. They argued that he was “part of a disinformation campaign that is having heartbreaking and deadly consequences.”
Last year Kennedy Jr. invoked Nazi Germany in an anti-vaccine speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. In 2021, Instagram removed his account in an effort “to repeatedly share debunked claims about the coronavirus or vaccines.”
Last March he tweeted who was considering a presidential run. “If it looks like I can raise the money and mobilize enough people to win, I’ll join the race,” she said.
As an environmental lawyer, he worked with a group that led the cleanup of the Hudson River. He also worked for the Natural Resources Defense Council and co-founded an environmental law firm.
If he goes ahead with his presidential bid, Kennedy would be the last in a long line of family members to enter politics.
His sister Kathleen served as lieutenant governor of Maryland from 1995 to 2003. His brother Joseph was a Massachusetts congressman from 1987 to 1999. And most recently, his brother Chris was an unsuccessful candidate for governor of Illinois in 2018.
The last Kennedy to hold elected office was his nephew, former Massachusetts Rep. Joe Kennedy III, who lost the 2020 Democratic Senate primary. (He is now the US special envoy for Northern Ireland.) Caroline Kennedy, daughter of former President Kennedy, is currently the US Ambassador to Australia.
On the Republican side, former President Donald Trump launched the race for the party’s nomination by announcing his third run for the White House last year. Former United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley, former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson and businessman Vivek Ramaswamy are also in the running, while other well-known contenders including Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and former Vice President Mike Pence are weighing their own offers. .
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