Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., on Why Hes Running

Published: May 20, 2024, 10 a.m.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who has never held elected office but is related to many people who have, is emerging as a potential threat to Democrats and Republicans in the 2024 Presidential race. \u201cThere\u2019s nothing in the United States Constitution that says that you have to go to Congress first and, then, Senate second, or be a governor before you\u2019re elected to the Presidency,\u201d\xa0 he told David Remnick, in July, when he was running as a Democrat. Now, as a third-party Presidential candidate, his numbers have grown in the polls\u2014enough to push votes away from both Biden and Trump in November, especially, it seems, among younger voters. Besides his name, the seventy-year-old environmental lawyer is known as an anti-vaccine activist and a proponent of conspiracy theories.\xa0

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This interview originally aired on the New Yorker Radio Hour on July 7, 2023.