More than a dozen members of the extended Kennedy family will formally endorse President Joe Biden, underscoring their rejection of a third-party challenge by Robert F Kennedy Jr. Kerry Kennedy, one of RFK Jr's sisters, will introduce Biden as a champion for rights and freedoms, warning of threats posed by Donald Trump to democracy and freedom. The event in Philadelphia highlights the potential spoiler role Kennedy poses to Biden in the reelection race. The endorsement aims to unite not only Democrats but all Americans, including Republicans and independents.
Members of the extended Kennedy family are actively supporting President Joe Biden's re-election campaign to push back against the potential independent candidacy of Robert F Kennedy Jr, which could act as a political spoiler in favor of presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump. The Kennedys gathered at the White House to show their support, with plans to engage in various forms of campaigning, media appearances, and legal challenges to counter RFK Jr's campaign efforts. The Biden team is welcoming the Kennedys' assistance and is working to support their efforts.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced his campaign for the 2024 United States presidential election on April 19, 2023. An environmental lawyer, writer, and member of the Kennedy family, he is known for advocating anti-vaccine misinformation and public health conspiracy theories. He initially ran for the Democratic Party nomination, but announced on October 9, 2023, that he would run as an independent candidate.Holding a diverse mix of traditionally liberal, conservative, and libertarian views in addition to his conspiracy theories, Kennedy has received significant support from independents and youth. His campaign has also received strong support and praise from tech industry executives in Silicon Valley. At the same time, the reaction to his campaign from his extended family has been largely negative.Although third party and independent candidates rarely perform as strongly in elections as they do in polling, a Quinnipiac University Polling Institute survey, released on November 1, 2023, indicated that Kennedy would win 22 percent of the vote if the 2024 presidential election were held then.
Robert F Kennedy Jr, an independent presidential candidate, rejected an offer from Donald Trump to be his running mate. A website attacking Kennedy, calling him a leftist radical, was launched by a pro-Trump political action committee. Kennedy, known for blending Covid-19 conspiracy theories with racism and xenophobia, accused Trump of labeling him as ultra-left and implied that he could beat Trump in the election. Trump's supporters launched the aggressive website 'Radical F-ing Kennedy' listing Kennedy's liberal positions. Kennedy's campaign, aiming to attract millennial and gen Z voters, named Nicole Shanahan as his running mate. Despite being a former Democrat, Kennedy's campaign has potential to spoil Joe Biden's chances in the election.
Robert F Kennedy Jr, an environmental lawyer and conspiracy theorist, is garnering double-digit support as an independent candidate in the US presidential race. Polling indicates he is impacting Biden more than Trump, reminiscent of past elections where third-party candidates influenced outcomes. Kennedy's popularity, despite facing ballot access challenges, complicates Biden's strategy of a binary election. With support in key swing states, he poses a real threat to Biden's campaign, especially among independents and the younger demographic.
Former President Donald Trump encouraged liberal voters to support Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in the presidential race, describing him as more left-leaning than Biden and a better choice. Trump suggested that Kennedy could take votes away from Biden, with Kennedy polling at 10% nationally. Kennedy, running as an independent, aims to draw support from both Trump and Biden. Trump baselessly predicted Kennedy's indictment by the Justice Department.
Independent presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr held a campaign event in West Des Moines, Iowa on April 13, 2024. Supporters listened as he spoke and local residents signed their names to help him gain access to the Iowa ballot.
President Biden's reelection campaign to fight anti-abortion measures and restore Roe v Wade faces a challenge as allies of Trump plan to promote Independent candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr as a 'champion of choice' to draw votes from Biden. Trump's allies also aim to highlight high oil production under Biden to attract pro-environment progressives and criticize Biden's stance on Israel to sway voters in the key swing state of Michigan. Dark-money groups not affiliated with Trump's campaign will support these efforts.
The Kennedy family is an American political family that has long been prominent in American politics, public service, entertainment, and business. In 1884, 35 years after the family's arrival from County Wexford, Ireland, Patrick Joseph "P. J." Kennedy became the first Kennedy elected to public office, serving in the Massachusetts state legislature until 1895. At least one Kennedy family member served in federal elective office from 1947, when P. J. Kennedy's grandson John F. Kennedy became a member of Congress from Massachusetts, until 2011, when Patrick J. Kennedy II (John's nephew) retired as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Rhode Island.P. J.'s son Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. and his wife, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, had nine children, including John F. Kennedy, who served in both houses of the United States Congress and as U.S. President; Robert F. Kennedy, who served as U.S. Attorney General and as a U.S. Senator; and Ted Kennedy, who served more than 46 years in the U.S. Senate. Other descendants include members of the U.S. House of Representatives, two U.S. ambassadors, one U.S. envoy, a lieutenant governor, three state legislators (one of whom also served in the U.S. House of Representatives), and one mayor.Joseph and Rose's daughter Eunice played a vital role in establishing the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (part of the National Institutes of Health) and the Special Olympics. Other descendants of Joseph and Rose Kennedy have been lawyers, authors, and activists on behalf of those with physical and intellectual disabilities.
First Lady Jill Biden defended her husband, President Joe Biden, against poor polling numbers showing him behind Donald Trump in six out of seven crucial swing states. A Wall Street Journal poll revealed Trump leading in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Georgia, North Carolina, Arizona, and Nevada. Trump and Biden tied in Wisconsin, with Biden ahead when including third-party candidates. Robert F Kennedy Jr aims to run as an independent candidate in all 50 states, having qualified in several. Biden has claimed recent national polls show him leading Trump, despite limited coverage.
Mary Kerry Kennedy (born September 8, 1959) is an American lawyer, author and human rights activist. She is the seventh child of Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Skakel Kennedy. During her 15-year marriage to former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, from 1990 to 2005, she was known as Kerry Kennedy-Cuomo. She is the president of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, a non-profit human rights advocacy organization.She is the younger sister of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an independent candidate in the 2024 presidential election.
Actor and comedian Rob Schneider discussed his support for independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., highlighting the importance of healthcare and criticizing political focus on issues like homelessness and "forever wars." Schneider emphasized the need for Americans to prioritize health, pointing out alarming statistics about the population's health. Additionally, experts noted the Democratic Party's backlash against Kennedy's candidacy as a major concern for them. Kennedy's recent announcement of tech entrepreneur Nicole Shanahan as his running mate sparked further Democratic Party reactions.
The Democratic National Committee accuses Robert F Kennedy Jr's presidential campaign of acknowledging its role as a 'spoiler' in the November election, after a staffer associated with the campaign discussed campaign strategy in a video. The staffer outlined a strategy to reduce Biden's chances of winning by diverting electoral votes to Kennedy, aiming to send the decision to Congress where Trump would likely be chosen. RFK Jr has expressed concern about the 'weaponization of government' against Trump and vowed to appoint a special counsel for the January 6 events.
Prominent Democratic groups MoveOn and Third Way are refocusing efforts to combat Robert F Kennedy Jr's independent presidential campaign, noting the electoral threat. Kennedy, despite having substantial financial resources, is seen as a danger by these groups, who aim to educate voters about his positions on key issues like abortion and in vitro fertilization. The groups plan to use affiliated super PACs for ad buys to counter Kennedy's campaign.
Joe Biden, the 46th and current president of the United States, has family members who are prominent in law, education, activism and politics. Biden's immediate family became the first family of the United States on his inauguration on January 20, 2021. His immediate family circle was also the second family of the United States from 2009 to 2017, when Biden was vice president. Biden's family is mostly descended from the British Isles, with most of their ancestors coming from Ireland and England, and a smaller number descending from the French.Of Joe Biden's sixteen great-great-grandparents, ten were born in Ireland. He is descended from the Blewitts of County Mayo and the Finnegans of County Louth. One of Biden's great-great-great-grandfathers was born in Sussex, England, and emigrated to Maryland in the United States by 1820.
Rita Palma, a campaign staffer for Robert F Kennedy Jr's independent presidential bid, proposed a strategy to prevent President Joe Biden's reelection by sending the election to the House of Representatives where members could elect former President Donald Trump instead. Palma, described as a ballot access consultant by the campaign, emphasized depriving Biden of victory by focusing on preventing his wins in blue states like New York. She highlighted Biden as the "mutual enemy" of Trump and Kennedy voters, rallying Republicans to support Kennedy to thwart Biden's reelection.
Caroline Bouvier Kennedy (born November 27, 1957) is an American author, attorney, and diplomat serving as the United States ambassador to Australia since 2022. Kennedy previously served in the Obama administration as the United States ambassador to Japan from 2013 to 2017. She is a member of the Kennedy family, the only surviving child of US president John F. Kennedy and first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.Less than a month before Caroline's third birthday, her father won the 1960 presidential election. She spent her early childhood years in the White House during his presidency, and was almost six when he was assassinated on November 22, 1963. The following year, she and her brother John F. Kennedy Jr. moved with their mother Jacqueline to the Upper East Side of Manhattan, where Caroline attended grade school.Kennedy graduated from Harvard University and worked at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she met her future husband, exhibit designer Edwin Schlossberg. She later earned a J.D. degree from Columbia Law School. Most of Kennedy's professional life has been in law, politics, education reform, and charitable work. She has also acted as a spokesperson for her family's legacy, especially that of her father, and co-authored two books with Ellen Alderman on civil liberties.Early in the primary race for the 2008 presidential election, Kennedy and her uncle, Ted Kennedy, endorsed Democratic candidate Barack Obama. She later stumped for him in Florida, Indiana, and Ohio, served as co-chair of his Vice Presidential Search Committee, and addressed the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver.After Obama selected United States senator Hillary Clinton to serve as secretary of state, Kennedy expressed interest in being appointed to Clinton's vacant Senate seat from New York, but later withdrew from consideration for personal reasons. In 2013, President Obama appointed Kennedy as the United States ambassador to Japan. Eight years later, Joe Biden appointed Kennedy as United States ambassador to Australia and she took office following her confirmation on June 10, 2022.
Senior adviser Lauren discussed RFK Jr's path forward in the 2024 race, highlighting Biden as a bigger threat to democracy than Trump due to using federal agencies to censor opponents. RFK Jr challenged Biden for the Democratic nomination before running as an independent candidate. Biden accuses Trump of threatening democracy over the Jan 6 Capitol riot.
As Robert F Kennedy Jr embarks on an independent run for president, Democrat operatives are striving to discredit him, portraying him as a conspiracy theorist and a danger to voters, particularly citing his controversial views on vaccines and conspiracy theories. Meanwhile, Republican operatives view Kennedy as a radical left 'nut-job' and are also working to deter their supporters from his campaign. Key DNC strategist Lis Smith emphasized the importance of discrediting Kennedy, highlighting that even the Kennedy family members do not support his bid, while warning of the potential consequences of his misinformation spreading, especially within black communities.
Naomi King Biden (born December 21, 1993) is an American lawyer. She is the eldest daughter of Hunter Biden and Kathleen Buhle, and a granddaughter of U.S. President Joe Biden. She grew up in Washington, D.C., and attended the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia Law School and works as an associate at the law firm Arnold & Porter.A member of the First family of the United States, she lived in the White House with her grandfather and step-grandmother Jill Biden from August 2022 until March 2023. Biden accompanied them on official visits to China, Brazil, Turkey, New Zealand, and Trinidad and Tobago while they were serving as Vice President and Second Lady.In November 2022, she became the first granddaughter of a president to marry at the White House. According to the White House Historical Association, her wedding was the first to take place on the South Lawn.
A campaign staffer for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s presidential bid, Rita Palma, was fired for advocating to prevent President Joe Biden's re-election and potentially electing Donald Trump by sending the race to the House of Representatives. Palma, who criticized vaccine mandates, suggested swaying Republican voters to help Kennedy qualify for New York's presidential ballot. The Kennedy campaign disavowed Palma's role as the New York state director and emphasized her as a ballot access consultant. The Biden campaign views Kennedy as a spoiler benefiting Trump, while Trump has welcomed Kennedy's candidacy, calling him the most radical left candidate.
Robert Francis Kennedy (November 20, 1925 – June 6, 1968), also known by his initials RFK, was an American politician and lawyer. He served as the 64th United States attorney general from January 1961 to September 1964, and as a U.S. senator from New York from January 1965 until his assassination in June 1968, when he was running for the Democratic presidential nomination. Like his brothers John F. Kennedy and Ted Kennedy, he was a prominent member of the Democratic Party and is an icon of modern American liberalism.Kennedy was born into a wealthy, political family in Brookline, Massachusetts. After serving in the U.S. Naval Reserve from 1944 to 1946, Kennedy returned to his studies at Harvard University, and later received his law degree from the University of Virginia. He began his career as a correspondent for The Boston Post and as a lawyer at the Justice Department, but later resigned to manage his brother John's successful campaign for the U.S. Senate in 1952. The following year, he worked as an assistant counsel to the Senate committee chaired by Senator Joseph McCarthy. He gained national attention as the chief counsel of the Senate Labor Rackets Committee from 1957 to 1959, where he publicly challenged Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa over the union's corrupt practices. Kennedy resigned from the committee to conduct his brother's successful campaign in the 1960 presidential election. He was appointed United States attorney general at the age of 35, one of the youngest cabinet members in American history. He served as his brother's closest advisor until the latter's assassination in 1963.His tenure is known for advocating for the civil rights movement, the fight against organized crime and the Mafia, and involvement in U.S. foreign policy related to Cuba. He authored his account of the Cuban Missile Crisis in a book titled Thirteen Days. As attorney general, he authorized the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to wiretap Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference on a limited basis. After his brother's assassination, he remained in office during the presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson for several months. He left to run for the United States Senate from New York in 1964 and defeated Republican incumbent Kenneth Keating, overcoming criticism that he was a "carpetbagger" from Massachusetts. In office, Kennedy opposed U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War and raised awareness of poverty by sponsoring legislation designed to lure private business to blighted communities (i.e., Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration project). He was an advocate for issues related to human rights and social justice by traveling abroad to eastern Europe, Latin America, and South Africa, and formed working relationships with Martin Luther King Jr., Cesar Chavez, and Walter Reuther.In 1968, Kennedy became a leading candidate for the Democratic nomination for the presidency by appealing to poor, African American, Hispanic, Catholic, and young voters. His main challenger in the race was Senator Eugene McCarthy. Shortly after winning the California primary around midnight on June 5, 1968, Kennedy was shot by Sirhan Sirhan, a 24-year-old Palestinian, allegedly in retaliation for his support of Israel following the 1967 Six-Day War. Kennedy died 25 hours later. Sirhan was arrested, tried, and convicted, though Kennedy's assassination, like his brother's, continues to be the subject of widespread analysis and numerous conspiracy theories.
The 2024 United States presidential election will be the 60th quadrennial presidential election, scheduled for Tuesday, November 5, 2024. Voters will elect a president and vice president for a term of four years. Incumbent President Joe Biden, a member of the Democratic Party, is running for re-election. His predecessor Donald Trump, a member of the Republican Party, is running for re-election to a second, nonconsecutive term. If both Biden and Trump are nominated by their respective parties, it would mark the first presidential rematch since 1956. A number of primary election challengers have also declared their candidacies for the nomination of both major parties. The winner of this election is scheduled to be inaugurated on January 20, 2025. It will occur at the same time as elections to the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House; several states will also be holding gubernatorial and state legislative elections.Prior to the general election, political parties will choose their nominees at nominating conventions. In October 2023, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced his run as an independent presidential candidate. By the next month, Kennedy's polling was at the highest levels for a candidate outside the two major parties since Ross Perot in 1992.The Colorado Supreme Court, a state Circuit Court in Illinois, and the Secretary of State of Maine have ruled that Trump is ineligible to hold office, and as such disqualified from appearing on the ballot, due to his role in the January 6 Capitol attack. However, the rulings are stayed pending appeal.Abortion access, healthcare, education, the economy, foreign policy, border security, LGBT rights, climate change, and democracy are expected to be leading campaign issues.
Jill Tracy Jacobs Biden (born June 3, 1951) is an American educator who has been the first lady of the United States since 2021 as the wife of President Joe Biden. She was the second lady of the United States from 2009 to 2017 when her husband was vice president. Since 2009, she has been a professor of English at Northern Virginia Community College, and is believed to be the first wife of a vice president or president to hold a salaried position during the majority of her husband's tenure.Biden has a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Delaware and master's degrees in education and English from West Chester University and Villanova University, and returned to the University of Delaware for a doctoral degree in education. She taught English and reading in high schools for thirteen years and instructed adolescents with emotional disabilities at a psychiatric hospital. Following this, she was an English and writing instructor for fifteen years at Delaware Technical & Community College.Born in Hammonton, New Jersey, Biden grew up in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania. She married Joe Biden in 1977, becoming the stepmother of Beau and Hunter, two sons from Joe Biden's first marriage. Biden and her husband also have a daughter together, Ashley Biden, born in 1981. She is the founder of the Biden Breast Health Initiative non-profit organization, co-founder of the Book Buddies program, co-founder of the Biden Foundation, is active in Delaware Boots on the Ground, and with Michelle Obama is co-founder of Joining Forces. She has published a memoir and two children's books.
Edward Moore Kennedy (February 22, 1932 – August 25, 2009) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a United States senator from Massachusetts. A member of the Democratic Party and the prominent Kennedy family, he was the second most senior member of the Senate when he died. He is ranked fifth in U.S. history for length of continuous service as a senator. Kennedy was the younger brother of President John F. Kennedy and U.S. attorney general and U.S. senator Robert F. Kennedy, and the father of U.S. representative Patrick J. Kennedy.After attending Harvard University and earning his law degree from the University of Virginia, Kennedy began his career as an assistant district attorney in Suffolk County, Massachusetts. He won a November 1962 special election in Massachusetts to fill the vacant seat previously held by his brother John, who had taken office as the U.S. president. He was elected to a full six-year term in 1964 and was re-elected seven more times. The Chappaquiddick incident in 1969 resulted in the death of his automobile passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne. He pleaded guilty to a charge of leaving the scene of an accident and received a two-month suspended sentence. The incident and its aftermath hindered his chances of becoming president. He ran in 1980 in the Democratic primary campaign for president, but lost to the incumbent president, Jimmy Carter.Kennedy was known for his oratorical skills. His 1968 eulogy for his brother Robert and his 1980 rallying cry for modern American liberalism were among his best-known speeches. He became recognized as "The Lion of the Senate" through his long tenure and influence. Kennedy and his staff wrote more than 300 bills that were enacted into law. Unabashedly liberal, Kennedy championed an interventionist government that emphasized economic and social justice, but he was also known for working with Republicans to find compromises. Kennedy played a major role in passing many laws, including the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, the National Cancer Act of 1971, the COBRA health insurance provision, the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986, the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, the Ryan White AIDS Care Act, the Civil Rights Act of 1991, the Mental Health Parity Act, the S-CHIP children's health program, the No Child Left Behind Act, and the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act. During the 2000s, he led several unsuccessful immigration reform efforts. Over the course of his Senate career, Kennedy made efforts to enact universal health care, which he called the "cause of my life". By his later years, Kennedy had come to be viewed as a major figure and spokesman for American progressivism.On August 25, 2009, Kennedy died of a brain tumor (glioblastoma) at his home in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, at the age of 77. He was buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
Joseph Patrick Kennedy Sr. (September 6, 1888 – November 18, 1969) was an American businessman, investor, philanthropist, and politician. He is known for his own political prominence as well as that of his children and was a patriarch of the Kennedy family, which included President John F. Kennedy, Attorney General and Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and longtime Senator Ted Kennedy.Kennedy was born into a political family in East Boston, Massachusetts. He made a large fortune as a stock and commodity market investor and later rolled over his proceeds by dedicating a substantial amount of his wealth into investment-grade real estate and a wide range of privately controlled businesses across the United States. During World War I, he was an assistant general manager of a Boston area Bethlehem Steel shipyard; through that position, he became acquainted with Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was the Assistant Secretary of the Navy. In the 1920s, Kennedy made huge profits by reorganizing and refinancing several Hollywood studios; several acquisitions were ultimately merged into Radio-Keith-Orpheum (RKO) studios. Kennedy increased his fortune with distribution rights for Scotch whisky. He owned the largest privately owned building in the country, Chicago's Merchandise Mart.Kennedy was a leading member of the Democratic Party and of the Irish Catholic community. President Roosevelt appointed Kennedy to be the first chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which he led from 1934 to 1935. Kennedy later directed the United States Maritime Commission. Kennedy served as the United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom from 1938 to late 1940. With the outbreak of World War II in September 1939, Kennedy was pessimistic about Britain's ability to survive attacks from Nazi Germany. During the Battle of Britain in November 1940, Kennedy publicly suggested, "Democracy is finished in England. It may be here [in the United States]." After a controversy regarding this statement, Kennedy resigned his position.Kennedy was married to Rose Fitzgerald and had nine children. During his later life, he was heavily involved in the political careers of his sons. Three of Kennedy's sons attained distinguished political positions: John served as a U.S. senator from Massachusetts and as the 35th president of the United States, Robert served as the U.S. attorney general and as a U.S. senator from New York, and Ted also served as a U.S. senator from Massachusetts.
Robert Francis Kennedy Jr. (born January 17, 1954) also known by his initials RFK Jr., is an American politician, environmental lawyer, and activist who promotes anti-vaccine misinformation and public health conspiracy theories. He is the chairman and founder of Children's Health Defense, an anti-vaccine advocacy group, and an independent candidate in the 2024 presidential election. A member of the Kennedy family, Kennedy is a son of U.S. attorney general and senator Robert F. Kennedy and nephew of U.S. president John F. Kennedy and senator Ted Kennedy.Kennedy has advocated for the protection of waterways, indigenous rights, and renewable energy. He began his career as an assistant district attorney in New York City. In 1984 and 1986, he joined two non-profits focused on environmental protection: Riverkeeper and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), respectively. His work at Riverkeeper set long-term environmental legal standards. At both organizations, he won legal battles against large corporate polluters. He became an adjunct professor of environmental law at Pace University School of Law in 1986. In 1987, he founded Pace's Environmental Litigation Clinic, where he held the post of supervising attorney and co-director until 2017. He founded the non-profit environmental group Waterkeeper Alliance in 1999, serving as the president of its board.Since 2005, Kennedy has promoted the scientifically disproven claim of a causal link between vaccines and autism. Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, he has emerged as a leading proponent of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation in the United States. Many of his often disproved public health claims have targeted prominent figures such as Anthony Fauci, Bill Gates, and Joe Biden. He has written books including The Real Anthony Fauci (2021) and A Letter to Liberals (2022).
Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. ( , BY-dən; born November 20, 1942) is an American politician who is the 46th and current president of the United States. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the 47th vice president from 2009 to 2017 under President Barack Obama and represented Delaware in the United States Senate from 1973 to 2009.Born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Biden moved with his family to Delaware in 1953. He graduated from the University of Delaware before earning his law degree from Syracuse University. He was elected to the New Castle County Council in 1970 and to the U.S. Senate in 1972. As a senator, Biden drafted and led the effort to pass the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act and the Violence Against Women Act. He also oversaw six U.S. Supreme Court confirmation hearings, including the contentious hearings for Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas. Biden ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1988 and 2008. In 2008, Obama chose Biden as his running mate, and he was a close counselor to Obama during his two terms as vice president. In the 2020 presidential election, Biden and his running mate, Kamala Harris, defeated incumbents Donald Trump and Mike Pence. He is the oldest president in U.S. history, and the first to have a female vice president.As president, Biden signed the American Rescue Plan Act in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent recession. He signed bipartisan bills on infrastructure and manufacturing. He proposed the Build Back Better Act, which failed in Congress, but aspects of which were incorporated into the Inflation Reduction Act that he signed into law in 2022. Biden appointed Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court. He worked with congressional Republicans to resolve the 2023 United States debt-ceiling crisis by negotiating a deal to raise the debt ceiling. In foreign policy, Biden restored America's membership in the Paris Agreement. He oversaw the complete withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan that ended the war in Afghanistan, during which the Afghan government collapsed and the Taliban seized control. He responded to the Russian invasion of Ukraine by imposing sanctions on Russia and authorizing civilian and military aid to Ukraine. During the Israel–Hamas war, Biden announced military support for Israel, and condemned the actions of Hamas and other Palestinian militants as terrorism. In April 2023, Biden announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination in the 2024 presidential election.
President Joe Biden is set to campaign in Pennsylvania, starting in his childhood hometown of Scranton, focusing on higher taxes for the rich and contrasting himself with Donald Trump. Biden plans to highlight economic issues like inflation despite low unemployment rates. Pennsylvania holds significance as no Democrat has won the presidency without the state since 1948. Biden will make multiple stops in Pennsylvania this week, underlining its importance to his re-election strategy.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to as JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. He was the youngest person elected president. Kennedy served at the height of the Cold War, and the majority of his foreign policy concerned relations with the Soviet Union and Cuba. A Democrat, Kennedy represented Massachusetts in both houses of the U.S. Congress prior to his presidency.Born into the prominent Kennedy family in Brookline, Massachusetts, Kennedy graduated from Harvard University in 1940, joining the U.S. Naval Reserve the following year. During World War II, he commanded PT boats in the Pacific theater. Kennedy's survival following the sinking of PT-109 and his rescue of his fellow sailors made him a war hero and earned the Navy and Marine Corps Medal, but left him with serious injuries. After a brief stint in journalism, Kennedy represented a working-class Boston district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1947 to 1953. He was subsequently elected to the U.S. Senate, serving as the junior senator for Massachusetts from 1953 to 1960. While in the Senate, Kennedy published his book, Profiles in Courage, which won a Pulitzer Prize. Kennedy ran in the 1960 presidential election. His campaign gained momentum after the first televised presidential debates in American history, and he was elected president, narrowly defeating Republican opponent Richard Nixon, the incumbent vice president.Kennedy's presidency saw high tensions with communist states in the Cold War. He increased the number of American military advisers in South Vietnam, and the Strategic Hamlet Program began during his presidency. In 1961, he authorized attempts to overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro in the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion and Operation Mongoose. In October 1962, U.S. spy planes discovered Soviet missile bases had been deployed in Cuba. The resulting period of tensions, termed the Cuban Missile Crisis, nearly resulted in nuclear war. In August 1961, after East German troops erected the Berlin Wall, Kennedy sent an army convoy to reassure West Berliners of U.S. support, and delivered one of his most famous speeches in West Berlin in June 1963. In 1963, Kennedy signed the first nuclear weapons treaty. He presided over the establishment of the Peace Corps, Alliance for Progress with Latin America, and the continuation of the Apollo program with the goal of landing a man on the Moon before 1970. He supported the civil rights movement but was only somewhat successful in passing his New Frontier domestic policies.On November 22, 1963, Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. His vice president, Lyndon B. Johnson, assumed the presidency. Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for the assassination, but he was shot and killed by Jack Ruby two days later. The FBI and the Warren Commission both concluded Oswald had acted alone, but conspiracy theories about the assassination persist. After Kennedy's death, Congress enacted many of his proposals, including the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Revenue Act of 1964. Kennedy ranks highly in polls of U.S. presidents with historians and the general public. His personal life has been the focus of considerable sustained interest following public revelations in the 1970s of his chronic health ailments and extramarital affairs. Kennedy is the most recent U.S. president to have died in office.
President Joe Biden choked up while addressing a crowd of union workers, condemning former President Donald Trump for allegedly calling fallen soldiers and Marines 'suckers' and 'losers' during a 2018 Paris trip, as reported by The Atlantic. Biden connected Trump's remarks directly to his son and uncle, both military veterans. The Trump campaign denied the comments, labeling them as a 'tired lie.' Biden reiterated his offense at Trump's words during a campaign rally in Scranton, Pennsylvania, emphasizing the heroism of all American service members.
Joseph Robinette "Beau" Biden III (February 3, 1969 – May 30, 2015) was an American politician, lawyer, and officer in the Army Judge Advocate General's Corps from Wilmington, Delaware. He was the oldest child of President Joe Biden (who was Vice President at the time of Beau's death) and Neilia Hunter Biden, served as the 44th attorney general of Delaware from 2007 to 2015, and was a major in the Delaware Army National Guard in the Iraq War. He died of glioblastoma at the age of 46 in 2015, at which time he was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for governor of Delaware in the 2016 gubernatorial election.
In the 2024 election, President Joe Biden supports federal abortion protections, advocating for the Women's Health Protection Act to ensure abortion rights in all 50 states. Former President Donald Trump, who previously backed nationwide restrictions on abortion, now leans towards leaving the issue to states, causing division within the Republican party. Trump's shift from advocating for federal bans to endorsing state decisions has received criticism from some GOP members and anti-abortion advocates.
Aaron Rodgers falsely claimed that John F Kennedy Jr was running against Hillary Clinton for the Senate before his fatal 1999 plane crash, insinuating a conspiracy theory linking Clinton to the accident. Rodgers highlighted the dangers faced by Robert F Kennedy Jr in the 2024 election and mentioned the deaths of JFK and RFK as part of his conspiracy theories. JFK Jr had considered a Senate run but decided against it months before his tragic plane crash, which led to unfounded conspiracy theories involving Clinton. Rodgers, once a potential running mate for RFK Jr, is now focused on football.
The No Labels group, known for its bipartisan stance in US politics, announced it will not field a third-party candidate for the upcoming presidential election against Joe Biden and Donald Trump. Despite efforts to recruit high-profile centrists, no credible candidate emerged, leading to the decision. This underscores the challenges faced by third-party groups in the US where Democrats and Republicans dominate. Notable figures like Joe Manchin and Larry Hogan declined potential runs under No Labels. The decision is welcomed by Democrats, leaving Robert F Kennedy Jr as a notable outsider candidate for the presidency.
On June 5, 1968, Robert F. Kennedy was shot by Sirhan Sirhan at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California and pronounced dead the following day.Kennedy, a United States senator and a leading candidate in the 1968 Democratic Party presidential primaries, won the California and South Dakota primaries on June 4. He addressed his campaign supporters in the Ambassador Hotel's Embassy Ballroom. After leaving the podium, and exiting through a kitchen hallway, he was mortally wounded by multiple shots fired by Sirhan. Kennedy died at Good Samaritan Hospital nearly 25 hours later. His body was buried at Arlington National Cemetery.Sirhan, a Palestinian who held strong anti-Zionist and pro-Palestinian beliefs, testified in 1969 that he killed Kennedy "with 20 years of malice aforethought"; he was convicted and sentenced to death. Due to People v. Anderson, his sentence was commuted to life in prison in 1972 with a possibility of parole. His parole request has been denied numerous times.Kennedy's assassination prompted the Secret Service to protect presidential candidates. Additionally, it led to several conspiracy theories. It was the final of four major assassinations in the United States that occurred during the 1960s.
Neilia Hunter Biden (July 28, 1942 – December 18, 1972) was an American teacher and the first wife of Joe Biden, the 46th president of the United States. She died in a car crash in 1972 with their one-year-old daughter, Naomi. Their two sons, Beau and Hunter, were critically injured but survived the incident. Her death occurred six weeks after her husband's election to the U.S. Senate.
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