Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a well-known environmental activist and the late attorney general of the United States, has made the decision to withdraw from the Democratic Party primary. According to him, the party has changed in a way that no longer supports the ideals upheld by his father and uncle.
Kennedy informed his crowd of supporters at a campaign event on Monday, October 9th, that he would no longer be running against incumbent Democratic President Joe Biden for the party’s nomination and would instead be running as an independent in the general election against both of them.
“I’m here to declare myself an independent candidate for president of the United States,” He said, according to USA Today, at the Philadelphia rally. “But that’s not all − I’m here to join you in making a new Declaration of Independence for our entire nation.”
Kennedy continued, drawing on the city’s historical significance as the place where the Declaration of Independence was written. “I’ve come here today to declare our independence from the tyranny of corruption, which robs us of affordable lives, our belief in the future and our respect for each other. But to do that, I must first declare my own independence, independence from the Democratic Party.”
Kennedy will collaborate with Princeton University Professor Cornel West as they work toward the extraordinary aim of defeating both major parties in a U.S. federal election.
Kennedy may possibly sway conservative voters away from the GOP, according to reports from publications like Politico, and the Republican National Convention was fast to provide a long list of “23 reasons to oppose the candidacy of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.,” posted on X, previously known as Twitter.
Republican non-starters include a number of the following:
- “He calls himself a “huge admirer” of socialist Bernie Sanders.
- He praised rabid antisemite Louis Farrakhan as a “truly great partner.”
- He supports divisive and unconstitutional affirmative action policies in higher education.
- He called the NRA a “terror group.”
- He has repeatedly called for a “ban” on “fossil fuel extraction,” including fracking.
- He praised socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal as “good” and “important”: “We ought to be pursuing it.”
- He supports abortion-on-demand until birth without limits — “in line with today’s Democrat Party.”
- He supports tax hikes on hardworking Americans, including AOC’s proposed top rate of 70%.”
The RNC concluded, “Do not be fooled — the only way to reverse America’s decline at the hands of Biden is to elect a Republican as president next year.”
However, the RNC stated that Kennedy asserted in one of its claims. “His candidacy will “take more votes” from the Republican candidate than Biden” That’s less than half what the Biden campaign could expect to lose with 33% of Democrats saying they would likely vote for an independent Kennedy according to the pollsters. would seem to directly contradict a decisive Rasmussen poll released on October 3rd which showed the overall potential 14% of GOP voters potentially breaking for Kennedy.
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As measured by the RealClearPolitics average, Trump holds a small advantage over Biden. However, if the Rasmussen survey results are reliable, Biden may lose a large percentage of Democrats’ support and plummet to 29.7%. Trump’s support would only fall to 37.9% in the meantime. Unexpectedly, this decline in support coincides with the proportion of Republicans who are #NeverTrump.
Kennedy would fall short of the required number of votes to win even with the backing of 28% of independent voters. In an unexpected turn of events, if he were to get 32.4% of the vote in this scenario, he would finish second, just behind Trump, with Biden behind in third.
