Hours after President Joe Biden announced he would no longer seek reelection, independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. commended him for stepping down and encouraged the Democratic Party to have an “open process” in selecting his replacement.
In a July 21 press conference at the Kennedy family compound in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, Mr. Kennedy told reporters that he entered the race partly because of President Biden’s “abandonment of Democratic Party principles” and to “ensure American voters had a viable, vigorous alternative to Donald Trump.”
Mr. Kennedy accused the Democratic National Committee (DNC) of running interference for President Biden and “[disabling] democracy to ram him through to his party’s nomination.”…