Almost a month after a gunman shot and injured former President Donald Trump at an outside rally in Pennsylvania, independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. canceled a planned appearance at the Iowa State Fair, citing “increased security concerns.”
Kennedy announced his candidacy in April 2023 and was denied Secret Service protection five times by the Department of Homeland Security before it was swiftly authorized after the July 13 assassination attempt on Trump.
Kennedy’s uncle, President John F. Kennedy, was shot and killed during a campaign stop in Dallas in 1963, and his father, New York Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, was assassinated by a gunman after a campaign speech in Los Angeles while running for president in 1968….