For the reason that occasion that holds the White Home not often, if ever, schedules major debates in opposition to the incumbent, Kennedy stated he needed to change his strategy if he needed to achieve voters.
“So how are we going to win in opposition to the established Washington pursuits?” Kennedy stated in a video teasing the Philadelphia rally the place he formally made the swap. “It’s not via enjoying the sport by the corrupt guidelines that the corrupt powers and vested pursuits have rigged to maintain us all of their thrall.”
You may see a video of the announcement beneath.
About half-hour after Kennedy posted his announcement on social media, his sister Kerry Kennedy rebuked his determination on X, previously referred to as Twitter.
“Bobby would possibly share the identical identify as our father, however he doesn’t share the identical values, imaginative and prescient or judgment,” the lawyer wrote in an announcement co-signed by siblings Rory Kennedy, Joseph Kennedy II and Kathleen Kennedy Townsend. Immediately’s announcement is deeply saddening for us. We denounce his candidacy and consider it to be perilous for our nation.”
Different customers on X had reactions to the assertion from Kerry Kennedy and siblings in opposition to their brother.
Kerry Kennedy additionally denounced her brother in July after he baselessly claimed that the “genetic construction” of the COVID-19 virus has been used “to assault Caucasians and Black folks.”
