RFK Jr. announces he is running for PRESIDENT against Biden

Anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made his White House bid official Wednesday with a campaign kick-off event in Boston, standing alongside his actress wife, Cheryl Hines.

He remarked how the U.S. would have a ‘really funny first lady’ if he’s elected, but also admitted that most of the Kennedy clan wasn’t backing his run against President Joe Biden.

‘There are other members of my family who are not here today,’ the 69-year-old Kennedy scion said to laughs, commenting that his family is like everyone else’s, in that they all don’t always see eye-to-eye.

‘They have different views on politics in this country,’ he said, noting how some ‘have long personal relationships with President Biden’ – as a number of Kennedys work for the current administration.

Kennedy said they disagreed with him on issues including government censorship, war and public health – alluding to his prominent vaccine skepticism.

‘And I love them back,’ the newly minted candidate noted, telling the crowd that family members wrote him ‘beautiful letters of love’ this week ahead of his announcement, as well as calling and emailing him.

‘We have a polarization in this country today that is so toxic and so dangerous at any time since the Civil War,’ Kennedy said. ‘And part of the principle mission of my campaign and on my presidency is going to be to end that division.’

‘I’ll try to do that by encouraging people to talk about the values that we have in common, rather than the issues that keep us apart,’ Kennedy added.

Kennedy was introduced by Hines, of Curb Your Enthusiasm fame, and by former Rep. Dennis Kucinich, who previously mounted his own bids for the White House.

‘Hi, I’m Dennis Kucinich and I’m a Kennedy Democrat,’ the ex-Ohio congressman said.

He referred to RJK Jr. as the ‘Paul Revere of our time.’

‘Moving from town to town, warning us if water is clean to drink, warning us if our air was safe to breathe … warning us when our food is unsafe to eat. And warning us when pharmaceuticals are unsafe to use,’ Kucinich said.

Kennedy spent a portion of his speech speaking about Revere’s ride as well, which happened 248 years ago this week.

He spent the opening moments of his speech talking about his family’s roots in Boston.

Kennedy’s official campaign kick-off about two weeks after he filed paperwork on his plans to run with the Federal Election Commission.

Biden has yet to officially announce a reelection campaign but earlier this month said that he was ‘planning’ to seek a second term.

Kennedy has faced criticism from his own relatives for repeatedly parroting bogus conspiracy theories that FDA-approved jabs are not safe.

He has also made the entirely fictional claim childhood vaccinations are linked to autism.

The nephew to slain President John F. Kennedy and the son of assassinated New York senator Robert F. Kennedy was kicked off Facebook in 2021.

The social media giant suspended his account as part of its crackdown on what it said was COVID-19 disinformation.

Kennedy’s announcement that he is running for the White House will also bring his colorful personal life back into the spotlight.

A leaked copy of his journal in 2001 contained sordid details of his serial cheating in which he spoke of his ‘lust demons.’

They contained scorecards of more than two dozen sexual conquests racked up behind his second wife’s back.

They carried the names of the women and the numbers from 1 to 10 next to each entry.

The codes corresponded to sexual acts, with 10 meaning full sexual intercourse.

The father-of-six married his third wife, Curb Your enthusiasm star Cheryl Hines, in 2014.

He asked his second wife Mary for a divorce n 2012.

Just four days later, the mother of four of his children – Conor, Finny, Kyra, and Aidan – was found hanged at home in Mount Kisco, New York.

She was reportedly convinced RFK Jr was having an affair.

His attempt to become the next commander-in-chief will not be the first time someone from the Kennedy clan challenged a sitting Democratic president.

The late Senator Ted Kennedy took on President Jimmy Carter for the Democratic nomination in 1980.

Carter, who was plagued by low approval ratings and a sluggish economy, saw off Kennedy’s bid but went on to lose to Republican Ronald Reagan.

Biden, too, faces similar challenges to what Carter experienced.

His popularity has taken a dip after years of slow growth and rampant inflation after the COVID-19 pandemic.

As many as 52.3 percent of Americans say they disapprove of his presidency, according to polling experts FiveThirtyEight.

That it is down from a 36 percent disapproval rating Biden had when he entered office in January 2021.

Kennedy enters the race with 14 percent of Biden’s 2020 supporters saying they would select him as their choice, according to a USA Today/Suffolk University poll that was released Wednesday, ahead of Kennedy’s Boston announcement.

Other surveys of Democratic and independent voters suggest Biden is too old to run again, but no high-profile member of his party has come forward to challenge him.

And only one elected sitting president has ever lost out on his party’s nomination for a second term – Franklin Pierce, the 14th president of the United States, in 1852.

Kennedy is joined in the Democratic race by Marianne Williamson, a self-help author.