Robert F. Kennedy Jr. presidential campaign, 2024

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I've been fighting corporate corruption my entire life, but I understand that today the problem is much larger than a few crooked individuals. The problem is a system that no longer serves the people and a people who are so divided and so fearful that they are easily ruled. It's time to unlearn the reflex of fear and blame, and find ways to unify ourselves and turn our country around. I won't pretend to you that it will be easy, but I know what it will take. My father said it: love, wisdom, and compassion toward one another. [1]

—Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (April 2023)[2]


Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (D) is an author and lawyer. Kennedy announced his candidacy for the 2024 presidential election on April 5, 2023.[3] Kennedy withdrew from the Democratic primary on Oct. 9, 2023, and announced he would run as an independent.[4]

In his campaign announcement video, Kennedy said, "we will scale down the war machine and bring our resources home. We will rebuild our water systems, repair our roads, modernize our railroads, and clean up our environment. We will also clean up government and earn back the people's trust. We will end the secrecy, the censorship, and the surveillance."[2] In his announcement speech, Kennedy also criticized former President Donald Trump (R) saying, "the worst thing he did to this country, to our civil rights, economy, and middle class in this country is the [coronavirus] lockdown."[5]



Biography

Kennedy was born in Washington, D.C. in 1954. He is the son of former U.S. Attorney General and Sen. Robert F. Kennedy (D-N.Y.) and Ethel Kennedy.[6] Kennedy received a bachelor's degree in American history and literature from Harvard University, a law degree from the University of Virginia, and a master's degree in environmental law from Pace University.[6]

He began his career in 1982 as an assistant district attorney in the Manhattan District Attorney's Office.[7] Following an arrest for drug possession in 1983, Kennedy volunteered for the Natural Resources Defense Council.[8] He also volunteered for Riverkeeper, a nonprofit seeking to preserve the Hudson River, and became the organization's chief attorney in 1985.[6]

Kennedy went on to found the Pace University Environmental Litigation Clinic in 1987. He worked as the clinic's supervising attorney, co-director, and as a law professor at Pace University from 1986 to 2018. He founded the Waterkeeper Alliance, a group seeking to "strengthen and grow a global network of grassroots leaders protecting everyone’s right to clean water," in 1999, and served as its chairman and attorney until 2017.[9]

In 2016, Kennedy founded Children's Health Defense, a nonprofit seeking to "end childhood health epidemics by working aggressively to eliminate harmful exposures, hold those responsible accountable and establish safeguards to prevent future harm." The organization says it participates in lawsuits to "assist with handling mandatory vaccination in schools, the workplace, and in travel -- as well as your right to informed consent."[10]

Campaign finance

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Campaign themes

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Policies from Kennedy's campaign website as of August 8, 2023, are excerpted below.

HONEST GOVERNMENT
FOR THE PEOPLE
A democratic government is supposed to be of, by, and for the people. But government institutions have betrayed our trust. The intelligence agencies spy on our own people. Government and tech platforms conspire to surveil and censor the public. Regulatory agencies have been captured by those they are supposed to regulate: Wall Street controls the SEC. Polluters and extractive industries dominate the EPA and BLM. Pharma controls the CDC, NIH, and FDA. Big Ag controls the USDA. Big Tech has captured the FTC. No wonder trust in government is at all-time lows. It’s time to earn it back.

From his long experience and familiarity with systems of power, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. understands that most people in corporations and government are perfectly decent human beings. They play the game, but a lot of them are fed up with its phoniness, and cynical about the paralysis of the system. They feel trapped in it. Clean government isn’t just about removing corrupt individuals. It is about changing a system in which perfectly decent people become agents of corruption without even knowing it.

"The blizzard of misinformation that is now inundating our democracy will end only when the government and the media start telling the truth to Americans."
- Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

We are going to remake public institutions to serve the public. We will roll back the secrecy and make government transparent. We will protect whistleblowers and prosecute officials who abuse the public trust. We will rein in the lobbyists and slam shut the revolving door that shunts people from government agencies to lucrative positions in the companies they were supposed to regulate, and back again. We will get money out of politics. We will open our institutions to real citizen involvement. We will restore integrity to government.

RECONCILIATION
HEAL THE DIVIDE
America is more polarized and divided now than at any time in living memory. Both sides seem to agree that the basic problem is the horrible people on the other side. Both sides are wrong. The basic problem is the division itself. A divided public lacks the strength to resist exploitation or to overcome the inertia of the status quo. The classic American can-do spirit exhausts itself in endless battles. So let’s heal the divide.

"My aim is to convince every Democrat that you’re not a Democrat, and every Republican that you’re not a Republican."
-- Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has clear positions on most of today’s divisive trigger issues like abortion, guns, and immigration, but he knows that both sides have legitimate concerns and legitimate moral positions. No one is deplorable. Furthermore, most of the disagreements obscure deeper shared values. Everyone wants their children to be safe. Few relish the thought of dead fetuses, nor do they want to force women to have unwanted babies. Everyone wants safe streets, yet few wish for millions of people to languish in prison. Robert F. Kennedy will draw on the broad moral agreements beneath our divisions. He will model careful listening, and create conditions where each group can hear the stories of the other. He will lead the way toward national reconciliation, respectful dialog, and willingness to change, to grow, and to forgive.

In the case of race relations, reconciliation includes repairing the damage caused by centuries of bigotry. Our administration will take racial healing seriously through a program of Targeted Community Repair. Our operating principle is not guilt for the sins of one’s ancestors, but rather compassion. We will invoke the authentic desire in all Americans, white and black, liberal and conservative, to improve the condition of our Black and Native brothers and sisters.

These commitments to respect and unity start right now, in the campaign. In Kennedy's own words, “Every nation, like every individual, has a darker side and a lighter side. The easiest thing for a politician to do is to appeal to our greed, to our anger, to our fear, to our xenophobia, our bigotry, all of the alchemies of tribalism. I will appeal instead to our generosity as a people, our goodness, our kindness, and our courage.”

ENVIRONMENT
CLEAN IT UP
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was instrumental in transforming the Hudson from a dead river to one of America’s cleanest today. He did it by uniting liberal environmentalists with conservative rod-and-gun folks who shared a desire for a clean, healthy environment. As President, he will bring the same commitment and coalition-building to address the most pressing environmental problems in America and beyond.

"Good environmental policy – 100% of the time – is identical to good economic policy."
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Recent years have seen one environmental disaster after another: floods and droughts, fires, and toxic spills. Our soils are depleted, the weather is wacky, trees are dying, and the water in many places is toxic. Chronic disease is at an all-time high. We’re going to address these problems at their root causes. First, we will shift agricultural subsidies so as to encourage regenerative practices. Today, a new generation of farmers and ranchers is building soil, replenishing groundwater, and detoxifying land, all while producing just as much food as conventional farmers and earning a decent livelihood.

Secondly, we will incentive the transition of industry to zero-waste cycles and clean energy sources, and forge agreements with other countries to implement these policies throughout the global supply chain. These first two policies will vastly reduce the toxic waste, industrial poisons, and pesticides that make people and ecosystems sick.

Finally, we will protect wild lands from further development, by curbing mining, logging, oil drilling, and suburban sprawl. We will become a global advocate for rainforest preservation and marine restoration. We will rethink development policies that promised economic growth while ignoring ecological sustainability, and ended up delivering neither.

REVITALIZATION
TURN IT AROUND
The time has come to reverse America’s economic decline, decades in the making. Our country faces a widening wealth gap (the most unequal since the 1920s), rampant debt, decaying infrastructure, and a hollowed-out industrial base. Every night, tens of millions of American children go to bed hungry. Millions of Americans must choose between food and medicine; millions more are living on the edge, just a single car repair away from disaster. And these problems are even worse for Black, Native, and other minority populations.

Government assistance to the nation’s most vulnerable is a high priority, but even more important is to reverse the policies that have led to such poverty in the first place. We will rebuild the industrial infrastructure, ruined by forty years of off-shoring and misguided “free trade” schemes. We will enact policies that favor small and medium businesses, which are the nation’s real job creators and the dynamos of American enterprise. We will support labor in reclaiming its fair share of American prosperity. We will break up “too-big-to-fail” banks and monopolies, and when crisis strikes, bail out the homeowners, debtors, and small business owners instead.

Global developments, particularly the end of the US dollar’s status as the world’s unchallenged reserve currency, portend turbulent economic conditions ahead. Yet at the same time, we know that America is fundamentally a wealthy nation, blessed with vast lands, rich resources, and a creative population. That is the vitality we will tap into to turn this country around.

Another key aspect of American revitalization is our healthcare system, which consumes nearly one-fifth of GDP. It isn’t just a matter of shifting the burden of who pays. The problem is much deeper. Healthcare spending per capita has increased twelve-fold since 1960. Are we twelve times healthier? Quite the contrary: We face today a terrible pandemic—not of Covid, but of chronic disease. Autoimmunity, allergies, diabetes, obesity, addiction, anxiety, and depression afflict two-thirds of the population, up from a few percent in our grandparents’ time. A Kennedy administration will go beyond making existing modalities available to all, to include low-cost alternative and holistic therapies that have been marginalized in a pharma-dominated system. We will move from a sick care system to a wellness society.

PEACE
BRING IT HOME
In the long term, a nation’s strength does not come from its armies. America spends as much on weaponry as the next nine nations combined, yet the country has grown weaker, not stronger, over the last 30 years. Even as its military technology has reigned supreme, America has been hollowing out from the inside. We cannot be a strong or secure nation when our infrastructure, industry, society, and economy are infirm.

A high priority of a Kennedy administration will be to make America strong again. When a body is sick, it withdraws its energy from the extremities in order to nourish the vital organs. It is time to end the imperial project and attend to all that has been neglected: the crumbling cities, the antiquated railways, the failing water systems, the decaying infrastructure, the ailing economy. Annual defense-related spending is close to one trillion dollars. We maintain 800 military bases around the world. The peace dividend that was supposed to come after the Berlin Wall fell was never redeemed. Now we have another chance.

As President, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. will start the process of unwinding empire. We will bring the troops home. We will stop racking up unpayable debt to fight one war after another. The military will return to its proper role of defending our country. We will end the proxy wars, bombing campaigns, covert operations, coups, paramilitaries, and everything else that has become so normal most people don’t know it’s happening. But it is happening, a constant drain on our strength. It’s time to come home and restore this country.

“America cannot be an empire abroad and continue to be a democracy at home.”
-- Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

In Ukraine, the most important priority is to end the suffering of the Ukrainian people, victims of a brutal Russian invasion, and also victims of American geopolitical machinations going back at least to 2014. We must first get clear: Is our mission to help the brave Ukrainians defend their sovereignty? Or is it to use Ukraine as a pawn to weaken Russia? Robert F. Kennedy will choose the first. He will find a diplomatic solution that brings peace to Ukraine and brings our resources back where they belong. We will offer to withdraw our troops and nuclear-capable missiles from Russia's borders. Russia will withdraw its troops from Ukraine and guarantee its freedom and independence. UN peacekeepers will guarantee peace to the Russian-speaking eastern regions. We will put an end to this war. We will put an end to the suffering of the Ukranian people. That will be the start of a broader program of demilitarization of all countries.

We have to stop seeing the world in terms of enemies and adversaries. As John Quincy Adams wrote, “Americans go not abroad in search of monsters to destroy.” Robert F. Kennedy will revive a lost thread of American foreign policy thinking, the one championed by his uncle, John F. Kennedy who, over his 1000 days in office, had become a firm anti-imperialist. He wanted to exit Vietnam. He defied the Joint Chiefs of Staff and refused to bomb Cuba, thus saving us from nuclear Armageddon. He wanted to reverse the imperialistic policies of Truman and Eisenhower, rein in the CIA, and support freedom movements around the world. He wanted to revive Roosevelt’s impulse to dissolve the British empire rather than take it over.

John F. Kennedy’s vision was tragically cut short by an assassin’s bullet. But now we have another chance. The country is ailing, yes, but underneath there is vitality still. America is a land rich in resources, creativity, and intelligence. We just need to get serious about healing our society, to become strong again from the inside.

America was once an inspiration to the world, a beacon of freedom and democracy. Our priority will be nothing less than to restore our moral leadership. We will lead by example. When a warlike imperial nation disarms of its own accord, it sets a template for peace everywhere. It is not too late for us to voluntarily let go of empire and serve peace instead, as a strong and healthy nation.

CIVIL LIBERTIES
RESTORE OUR RIGHTS
Our administration will make it a top priority to protect and restore the fundamental civil liberties, enshrined in the Bill of Rights, that hold the essence of what America can be. These liberties have endured constant assault for over twenty years, starting with the Bush/Cheney War on Terror, and accelerating in the era of Covid lockdowns.

Freedom of speech is the capstone of all other rights and freedoms. Once a government has the power to silence its opponents, no other right is safe. We will therefore dismantle the censorship-industrial complex, in which Big Tech censors, deplatforms, shadowbans, and algorithmically suppresses any person or opinion the government asks them to. We will respect the right to privacy and freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures, by ending mass surveillance of American citizens and the abuse of civil asset forfeiture. We will make sure that the Covid-era suspension of the right to assembly, trial by jury, and freedom of worship will never happen again. The same for the right to property. During Covid, 3.4 million business were forced to close. Many of them, including 60% of Black-owned businesses, will never reopen.

A Kennedy administration will respect American citizens and stop treating them like suspects and schoolchildren. We will stop manipulating the public with propaganda and targeted leaks. We will never weaponize the law against political opponents, nor hold our own officials above the law. We will return the intelligence agencies to their proper role as protectors not violators of liberty.

"The free flow of information is the sunlight and water and fertilizer for democracy."
- Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

We will also take special care to ensure the civil liberties of minorities and the poor. We will end the failed War on Drugs and grant amnesty to nonviolent drug offenders. We will shut the school-to-prison pipeline, and transition prisons away from a punishment paradigm to a rehabilitation paradigm. Prisons will be an intervention in a life gone wrong, and a way to prevent offenders from harming others again.

Instead of defunding the police, we will transform the police. We will incentivize them to prevent violence, not make unnecessary arrests. We will train them in deescalation and mediation skills and partner them with neighborhood organizations. No longer will their relationship to the public be adversarial. They will focus their attention on serious crimes, not harassing ordinary people.[11] [1]

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  • Reclaim democracy

Campaign staff

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The table below shows a partial list of national campaign staff members, including the campaign manager, senior advisors, political directors, communications directors, field directors, and the national press secretary. They are presented alongside their positions in the campaign, their most recent positions prior to the campaign, and their Twitter handles. To recommend additions, please email us at editor@ballotpedia.org.

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. presidential campaign national staff, 2024
Staff Position Prior experience Twitter handle
Dennis Kucinich[12] Campaign manager 2021 mayoral candidate, Cleveland, Ohio @Dennis_Kucinich
Stefanie Spear[13] Communications director Founder and CEO, Stellar Consulting @StefanieSpear
Charles Eisenstein[14] Senior advisor Author @ceisenstein


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Timeline of campaign activity

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The following section provides a timeline of Kennedy's campaign activity beginning in April 2023. The entries are sorted by month in reverse chronological order.


2023


  • October 9, 2023: Kennedy withrew from the Democratic primary and announced he would run as an independent.[4]
  • October 7, 2023: Kennedy issued a statement in response to Hamas' military attacks against Israel, and Israel's subsequent declaration of war. Kennedy said, "This ignominious, unprovoked, and barbaric attack on Israel must be met with world condemnation and unequivocal support for the Jewish state’s right to self-defense. We must provide Israel with whatever it needs to defend itself — now. [...] I applaud the strong statements of support from the Biden White House for Israel in her hour of need. However, the scale of these attacks means it is likely that Israel will need to wage a sustained military campaign to protect its citizens. Statements of support are fine, but we must follow through with unwavering, resolute, and practical action."[15]
  • October 6, 2023: Kennedy joined a United Auto Workers (UAW) picket line in Swartz Creek, Michigan.[16]
  • October 2, 2023: Kennedy spoke about religious liberties at the National Apostolic Christian Leadership Conference in Jackson, Mississippi.[17]
  • October 1, 2023: Kennedy held a campaign event in Atlanta, Georgia.[18]

  • September 30, 2023: Kennedy held a campaign event in Duluth, Georgia.[19]
  • September 18, 2023: Kennedy held a fundraiser in Los Angeles, California, featuring a musical performance from Eric Clapton.[20]
  • September 15, 2023: Kennedy held a campaign event in Los Angeles, California.[21]
  • September 13, 2023: Kennedy spoke at former Sen. Scott Brown's (R-Mass.) No B.S. Backyard Barbecue in Rye, New Hampshire.[22]
  • September 12, 2023: Kennedy wrote an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal titled "The Democratic Party Rigs the Primaries." Kennedy wrote, "The DNC has refused to host debates, though a vast majority of Democratic voters want and expect them so they can judge which candidate has the popular appeal and vigor to challenge the Republican nominee. Even if candidates reach voters anyway, the party is trying to stack the primary schedule in Joe Biden’s favor. The DNC has revoked New Hampshire’s century-old status as the first primary state and replaced it with South Carolina. Mr. Biden won the latter in 2020, but he lost both the New Hampshire primary and the Iowa caucus."[23]
  • September 11, 2023: Kennedy held a town hall in Walpole, New Hampshire.[24]
  • September 9, 2023: Kennedy held a campaign event in North Charleston, South Carolina.[25]

  • August 30, 2023: Kennedy held a town hall in Brooklyn, New York.[26]
  • August 22, 2023: Kennedy held a town hall in Spartanburg, South Carolina.[27]
  • August 21, 2023: Kennedy held a campaign event in Greenville, South Carolina.[28]
  • August 16, 2023: Kennedy held a town hall in Charleston, South Carolina.[29]
  • August 12, 2023: Kennedy spoke at the Des Moines Register's Political Soapbox event at the Iowa State Fair. Click here to view his remarks.[30]
  • August 6, 2023: Kennedy spoke at the opening of his New Hampshire campaign headquarters in Manchester, New Hampshire.[31]
  • August 3, 2023: Kennedy released a policy plan about the United States-Mexico border. Kennedy wrote, "Our policy will be first, to get the border under control. Second, to work with other countries to stem the tide of migrants. Third, to fully fund and prioritize the administrative infrastructure for lawful, orderly immigration to this country."[32]

  • July 25, 2023:
    • Kennedy held a campaign event in New York City where he discussed Israel policy and his opposition to anti-semitism with Rabbi Shmuley Boteach.[33]
    • Kennedy participated in a Fox News town hall in New York City.[34]
  • July 15, 2023: The July quarterly Federal Election Commission campaign finance reporting deadline passed. Kennedy reported raising $6 million and spending $2 million with $5 million in cash on hand as of June 30.[35]
  • July 2, 2023: Kennedy appeared at a UNITE HERE Local 11 picket line in Los Angeles, California. Unite Here Local 11 represents "workers employed in hotels, restaurants, airports, sports arenas, and convention centers.[36][37]

  • June 27, 2023: Moms for Liberty said Kennedy canceled his appearance at their summit taking place from June 29 to July 2. A representative for the organization told The Philadelphia Inquirer that Kennedy's campaign "told us his schedule changed and he can no longer speak to our summit."[38]
  • June 24, 2023: Kennedy appeared at a campaign fundraiser in Brentwood, California.[39]
  • June 23, 2023: Kennedy participated in a WMUR televised town hall with New Hampshire voters.[40]
  • June 21, 2023: Kennedy spoke at an Ethan Allen Institute event in South Burlington, Vermont.[41]
  • June 20, 2023: Kennedy delivered a speech on foreign policy in Goffstown, New Hampshire.[42]
  • June 15, 2023: Kennedy attended a campaign fundraising event. Venture capitalists Chamath Palihapitiya and David Sacks hosted the fundraiser.[43]
  • June 7, 2023: Kennedy campaigned in Yuma, Arizona.[44]
  • June 5, 2023: Kennedy participated in a live-streamed conversation on Twitter. Other speakers included Elon Musk and former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard.[45]
  • June 1, 2023: Kennedy campaigned in New Hampshire and spoke before the New Hampshire Senate.[46]

  • May 29, 2023: Kennedy spoke at a Memorial Day event in San Diego, California.[47]
  • May 19, 2023: Kennedy spoke at the Bitcoin 2023 conference.[48]
  • May 18, 2023: Kennedy announced that former Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) would serve as his campaign manager.[49]
  • May 11, 2023: Kennedy commented on the end of Title 42, saying, "We need to take strong measures to put a stop to the chaotic and unlawful influx of immigrants. And we must do it in a humane fashion. Shunting migrants from one city to another like some kind of political football is no solution."[50]
  • May 9, 2023: Kennedy joined a Writers Guild of America picket line outside of Amazon Studios in Culver City, California.[51]

  • April 25, 2023: Kennedy issued a statement responding to President Joe Biden's (D) announcement that he would seek re-election. Kennedy said, "I have known and liked Joe Biden for many years, but we differ profoundly on fundamental issues such as corporate influence in government, censorship, civil liberties, poverty, corruption, and war policy, among others. I look forward to engaging him in debates and town hall meetings, in a primary election that is honest, civil, and transparent. I invite him into a new era of respectful dialog in these times of division."[52]
  • April 19, 2023: Kennedy held a campaign launch event in Boston, Massachusetts.[53]
  • April 5, 2023: Kennedy announced his candidacy for the 2024 Democratic presidential nomination.[54]


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Footnotes

  1. 1.0 1.1 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
  2. 2.0 2.1 YouTube, "Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Presidential Campaign Launch Video," April 20, 2023
  3. CNN, "Robert F. Kennedy Jr. files paperwork to run for president as a Democrat," April 5, 2023
  4. 4.0 4.1 Associated Press, "Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will run for president as an independent and drop his Democratic primary bid," accessed October 9, 2023
  5. C-SPAN, "Robert Kennedy Jr. Announces 2024 Presidential Campaign," April 19, 2023
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 Biography, "Robert F. Kennedy Jr.," accessed April 21, 2023
  7. The New York Times, "Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Hired by Morgenthau," March 28, 1982
  8. The New York Times, "NEW YORK DAY BY DAY; A Quiet Victory For Robert F. Kennedy Jr.," June 4, 1985
  9. Influence Watch, "Waterkeeper Alliance," accessed April 21, 2023
  10. Children's Health Defense, "Home," accessed April 21, 2023
  11. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s campaign website, "Priorities," accessed April 21, 2023
  12. The Hill, "RFK Jr. appoints former progressive House Dem as campaign manager," May 18, 2023
  13. ABC News, "RFK Jr. says he’s not anti-vaccine. His record shows the opposite. It’s one of many inconsistencies," July 31, 2023
  14. Daily Beast, "Meet the Misfits Working to Elect RFK Jr.," August 26, 2023
  15. Twitter, "Kennedy on October 7, 2023," accessed October 10, 2023
  16. Twitter, "Kennedy on October 6, 2023," accessed October 10, 2023
  17. SuperTalk, "Presidential candidate RFK Jr. to speak in Mississippi on Monday," October 2, 2023
  18. Kennedy's campaign website, "Kennedy Hits Campaign Trail in Atlanta," September 27, 2023
  19. Kennedy's campaign website, "Kennedy Hits Campaign Trail in Atlanta," September 27, 2023
  20. Kennedy's campaign website, "PRIVATE RECEPTION WITH ROBERT F. KENNEDY, JR. FEATURING A SPECIAL PERFORMANCE BY ERIC CLAPTON," accessed September 19, 2023
  21. CNN, "Man accused of carrying loaded weapon at RFK Jr. campaign event," September 16, 2023
  22. WMUR, "Democrat Robert F. Kennedy Jr. takes stage at New Hampshire campaign event that typically hosts Republicans," September 13, 2023
  23. Wall Street Journal, "The Democratic Party Rigs the Primaries," September 12, 2023
  24. WMUR, "Robert F. Kennedy Jr. holds 'Day of Service' event, town hall at organic farm in Walpole," September 11, 2023
  25. WCBD, "Robert F. Kennedy Jr. initiates South Carolina campaign with Charleston HQ and events," September 9, 2023
  26. NTD, "Democratic Presidential Candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Holds Town Hall Meeting in New York," August 30, 2023
  27. Spartanburg Herald-Journal, "RFK Jr stops in SC: Democratic presidential candidate intrigues GOP, Independent voters," August 23, 2023
  28. WSPA, "Robert F. Kennedy Jr. makes campaign stop in Greenville," August 21, 2023
  29. Post and Courier, "Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tests longshot 2024 campaign in SC, Joe Biden’s savior state," August 16, 2023
  30. C-SPAN, "Robert Kennedy, Jr. Speaks at Iowa State Fair," August 12, 2023
  31. NH Journal, "RFK Jr. Opens Manchester HQ, Says Campaign ‘On the Move’ in NH," August 6, 2023
  32. Kennedy's campaign website, "Kennedy Announces Border Policy, Premiers ‘Midnight at the Border’ Documentary," August 3, 2023
  33. Twitter, "Kennedy on July 25, 2023," accessed July 26, 2023
  34. Kennedy's campaign website, "“Hannity” Town Hall with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.," accessed July 26, 2023
  35. Federal Election Commission, "July Quarterly," accessed July 16, 2023
  36. Twitter, "Kennedy on July 2, 2023," accessed July 3, 2023
  37. UNITE HERE Local 11, "Home," accessed July 3, 2023
  38. The Philadelphia Inquirer, "Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. will no longer speak at Moms for Liberty summit in Philly," June 27, 2023
  39. Twitter, "Kennedy on June 25, 2023," accessed June 26, 2023
  40. WMUR, "Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a 2024 presidential hopeful, shares views on top issues in New Hampshire town hall event," June 23, 2023
  41. Vermont Biz, "Ethan Allen Institute presents Robert F Kennedy, Jr, June 21," June 7, 2023
  42. NBC Boston, "Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to deliver speech in NH Tuesday," June 20, 2023
  43. Twitter, "Palihapitiya on June 16, 2023," accessed June 19, 2023
  44. Twitter, "Robert F. Kennedy Jr.," JUne 7, 2023
  45. Twitter, "Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
  46. CNN, "Robert F. Kennedy Jr. emphasizes the importance of a democratic election and hits DNC in speech to New Hampshire Senate," June 1, 2023
  47. CBS 8, "Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. makes campaign stop in San Diego," May 29, 2023
  48. Bitcoin Magazine, "ROBERT KENNEDY JR. MAKES CAMPAIGN DEBUT AT BITCOIN 2023: ‘FREE MONEY IS AS IMPORTANT AS FREE EXPRESSION’," May 19, 2023
  49. Twitter, "Kennedy on May 18, 2023," accessed May 19, 2023
  50. Twitter, "Kennedy on May 11, 2023," accessed May 15, 2023
  51. Twitter, "Kennedy on May 9, 2023," accessed May 10, 2023
  52. Twitter, "Robert F. Kennedy on April 25, 2023," accessed April 25, 2023
  53. WBUR, "Robert F. Kennedy Jr. comes to Boston to launch 2024 presidential bid," April 19, 2023
  54. CNN, "Robert F. Kennedy Jr. files paperwork to run for president as a Democrat," April 5, 2023