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“Medicine”
It’s official — RFK Jr. is no longer even pretending to be appealing to Democratic voters:
In a move that could alter the dynamics of the 2024 election, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on Monday that he would continue his presidential run as an independent candidate, ending his long-shot pursuit of the Democratic nomination against an incumbent president.
“I am here to declare myself an independent candidate for president of the United States,” Mr. Kennedy told a crowd of supporters outside the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia.
Since announcing his candidacy in April, Mr. Kennedy, 69, has been a sharp critic of Democratic leadership, which he has accused of “hijacking the party machinery” to stifle his challenge to President Biden. He has also said, in interviews and in public appearances, that the party has abandoned its principles and become corrupted.
If this takes some marginal votes away from Trump, great. If it means that we’re not going to hear idiotic arguments about how criticizing people running vanity campaigns violates their First Amendment rights again for a while, that’s a nice fringe benefit.