For decades, the Kennedy family has been political royalty in the Democratic Party. Of course, Democrat U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy (D-MA) was elected President of the United States in 1960.
After his assassination in 1963, his brother, Robert F. Kennedy, who served as U.S. Attorney General and U.S. Senator from New York, became a leading presidential candidate in the 1968 Democratic Party nomination contest. Tragically, he was assassinated after winning the Democratic Party primary in California.
Other family members have served as Democrats in Congress, such as U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts and U.S. Representative Patrick Kennedy II of Rhode Island. In 1980, Senator Kennedy made an unsuccessful effort to win the Democratic Party presidential nomination when he challenged the incumbent, President Jimmy Carter.
Amazingly, forty-three years later, another family member is running for President, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. He announced his candidacy as a Democrat and has been campaigning for six months. His campaign has generated impressive grassroots support, even though he is challenging incumbent President Joe Biden for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination.
According to the latest average of polls among Democrats, Kennedy has 15.1% support, trailing Biden’s 61.6% rating. Interestingly, Kennedy has more support among Democrats than President Donald Trump’s leading contender, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, has among Republicans. In the latest poll average, DeSantis only registers the backing of 13.5% of Republicans.
Due to this intolerable treatment, Kennedy has scheduled “a major announcement” for October 9 in Philadelphia, PA. It is widely believed he will declare his intention to withdraw from the Democratic Party presidential primaries and launch a bid for the White House as an independent.
This is a smart decision by Kennedy for he is going nowhere as a Democrat presidential candidate as the party’s nomination process is rigged in favor of Biden. This is what happened in 2020 when Biden was propelled to victory over U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) for the Democratic Party presidential nomination.
Sanders also was robbed of the Democratic Party presidential nomination in 2016 by Hillary Clinton. In fact, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) admitted the nomination process was “rigged” to favor Clinton.
The same “rigged” process is happening today. In a letter to Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairman Jaime Harrison, Kennedy claimed that “The DNC and the Joe Biden campaign have essentially merged into one unit, financially and strategically, despite the promise of neutrality in its charter.” As Kennedy noted in his letter to Harrison, “The DNC is not supposed to favor one candidate over another. It is supposed to oversee a fair, democratic selection process, and then support the candidate that its voters choose.”
Even Warren understands the party’s basic corruption. In a recent interview with Judy Woodruff of PBS, Warren said, Democrats must “recognize the process was rigged, and now it is up to Democrats to build a new process…that really works and works for everyone and as we go forward, we have confidence in the integrity of the system that Democrats as they run a primary are going to let the people speak and we’re going have a candidate who is a candidate chosen by the people. That’s our job.”
