In a presidential election marked by the high age of the main contenders, independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr, 70, don’t mismatch. Saturday, February 24, John F. Kennedy’s nephew addresses California libertarians, gathered in a convention in a hotel in Costa Mesa, in Orange County, south of Los Angeles. Austere appearance, tired face, he speaks in his hoarse voice, damaged by a spasmodic dysphonia that appeared in his forties.
Since leaving the Democratic Party in October 2023 to launch a third-way bid for the White House, Kennedy has been traveling the country to find the support that will allow him to see his name appear on the ballot in the 50 states of the country, November 5. Rumor has it that the Libertarian Party, which is qualified in around thirty states and has not yet designated its standard bearer, could consider his candidacy. The person repeated to the press that he was not ruling out anything.
Standing on the platform, in a light gray suit, the son of Robert Kennedy, the former attorney general of the United States, assassinated in June 1968 in Los Angeles while seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, lends himself patiently exercise. He who bears a more than illustrious name considers it useful to redo the presentations. He describes in detail the journey which led him, the lawyer from the Democratic inner circle, to move from defending the environment to denouncing the three knights of misguided capitalism: “Big Pharma”, “Big Oil”. » and “Big Tech”, to ultimately break with traditional parties. Before his intervention, participants were searched, an unprecedented security measure at this stage of the primaries in a “small” party, but Libertarians are great defenders of the Second Amendment, and this, according to the Supreme Court, guarantees carrying weapons, including concealed weapons.
Even more divided than usual
Robert Kennedy describes his beginnings. His commitment in the 1980s to the fishermen of the Hudson, the New York river threatened by pollution, fighting since 1966 against large industrial groups, and dismayed to discover their support within the American government. The experience, he says, inspired his path as a slayer of “crony capitalism”crony capitalism. “Barbarism for the poor, socialist for the rich”, he describes. “In my career, I have prosecuted more than 500 big polluters. Show me a polluter, I’ll show you a subsidy. »
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