RFK Jr insists ‘many’ members of the family are backing his marketing campaign after Kennedy clan supported Biden at White Home

Robert F Kennedy Jr has insisted that “many” of his members of the family again his unbiased presidential marketing campaign after a number of family members seemingly snubbed him with a go to to the White Home wherein they heaped reward on President Joe Biden.

“Many different members of the family are working for my marketing campaign,” he advised Information Nation’s Chris Cuomo, including: “Many different members of the family assist it.”

It isn’t clear which members of his household Mr Kennedy Jr was referencing.

His feedback got here after a number of generations of the well-known Kennedy clan had been pictured on the White Home with President Biden for a St Patrick’s Day celebration over the weekend.

RFK Jr, who’s at the moment working as an unbiased candidate within the 2024 election, was notably absent.

In his interview with Information Nation, Mr Kennedy Jr downplayed the dimensions of the group within the picture, which he stated was “a really small proportion of my household.”

The Kennedy household shared the picture on social media on Sunday and in addition took the chance to voice their assist for president Biden.

“It’s not sufficient to want the world had been higher, it’s essential to make the world higher,” Kerry Kennedy, the youthful sister of RFK Jr wrote in a put up on X.

“@POTUS President Biden, you make the world higher,” she added.

Additional downplaying the picture, Mr Kennedy Jr advised Information Nation: “President Biden is an outdated buddy of my household.”

He additionally took partial credit score for facilitating the go to to the White Home on Sunday, telling Cuomo: “I performed a job, I believe, in facilitating that go to to the White Home and bringing all of them such happiness, so I’m comfortable about that,” he stated. “I do hope at the very least a few them took the time to speak to President Biden and ask him to supply me with Secret Service safety. In order that’s my hope.”

Earlier this month, Mr Kennedy Jr’s presidential marketing campaign requested for Secret Service safety for a fifth time, in line with Newsweek, after being most just lately denied in February by Homeland Safety Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

Sunday’s picture will not be the primary time RFK Jr has been publicly snubbed by his circle of relatives.

Following his announcement that he was working for president, his members of the family launched a press release denouncing him as “harmful” and “perilous for our nation”.

“Bobby may share the identical identify as our father, however he doesn’t share the identical values, imaginative and prescient or judgment,” Kerry Kennedy wrote on behalf of 4 members of the illustrious political dynasty.

JFK’s grandson Jack Schlossberg additionally beforehand condemned his cousin, calling him an “embarrassment” to the household identify.

“He’s buying and selling in on Camelot, movie star, conspiracy theories and battle for private achieve and fame,” Mr Schlossberg stated.

RFK Jr has beforehand been accused of amplifying conspiracy theories — most notably in regards to the Covid vaccine.

He has been accused of constructing baseless claims that vaccines are linked to mind issues. He additionally claimed that the virus which causes Covid-19 was “ethnically focused” and was “focused to assault Caucasians and Black individuals”.

His wild conspiracy theories aren’t the one factor that has brought about a rift between Mr Kennedy Jr and his household.

The son of the late US senator Robert F Kennedy initially filed candidacy papers for the Democratic nomination with the FEC in April, however later determined to interrupt his household’s lengthy working ties with the Democratic get together, and switched to working as an unbiased candidate.

In October, he admitted throughout a Fox Information interview that his resolution “was very painful” and “leaving the get together of my household may be very, very troublesome”.

“It was a alternative that I didn’t really feel that I had a alternative about,” he added.

Talking in regards to the rift between him and his members of the family, Mr Kennedy Jr acknowledged: “I perceive that a lot of them disagree with me on the struggle in Ukraine. They disagree with me on Covid, on a number of the public well being points. They disagree with me on the free speech points.”

He added: “So, you understand, we are able to disagree with one another in a pleasant means and nonetheless love one another.”