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b"Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the son of a former Attorney General and the nephew of President John F. Kennedy, has announced that\\xa0he\\u2019s running\\xa0for the Democratic Presidential nomination. He is nearly seventy years old, and has never held public office. \\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 he tells David Remnick.\\xa0With no prominent elected Democrat challenging President Biden, Kennedy is polling around ten to twenty per cent\\xa0 among Democratic primary voters\\u2014enough to cause at least some alarm for Biden. He is best known as an influential purveyor of disinformation: that vaccines cause autism; that SSRIs and common anxiety medication might be causing the increase in school shootings; that \\u201ctoxic chemicals\\u201d in the water supply might contribute to \\u201csexual dysphoria\\u201d in children. He wrote a book accusing Anthony Fauci of helping to \\u201corchestrate and execute 2020\\u2019s historic coup d\\u2019\\xe9tat against Western democracy.\\u201d He seems not at all concerned that Donald Trump, Roger Stone, Tucker Carlson, and Alex Jones\\u2014all of whom would like to see Biden bruised in a primary challenge\\u2014have praised him. \\u201cI'm trying to unite the country,\\u201d he says to Remnick. \\u201cYou keep wanting to focus on why don't I hate this guy more? Why don't I hate on this person more?\\u201d Kennedy, who regularly attends recovery meetings for addiction to drugs including heroin, says that \\u201cthe recovery program is an important part of my life, is an important part of keeping me mentally and physically and spiritually fit. . . . And my program tells me not to do that. I\\u2019m not supposed to be doing that.\\u201d"