Meet Robert Kennedy Jr: The US election wild card
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The Times
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🗓️ 7 November 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Scion of the Kennedy dynasty, Robert Kennedy Jr has ditched the Democrats and declared his candidacy in the 2024 US Presidential race, running as an Independent. But in a Biden-Trump run-off, who does Kennedy hurt most?
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| 0:00.0 | It's only a year till the U.S. presidential election. In Miami, tomorrow night, |
| 0:10.0 | the Republican Party's wannabies meet for yet another debate come slugging match |
| 0:15.3 | but Donald Trump can be pretty confident of his party's nomination as can President |
| 0:19.7 | Biden but could there be a comedy triple? |
| 0:23.0 | The Democrats are frightened that I'm going to spoil the election for President Biden. |
| 0:28.0 | And the Republicans are frightened that I'm going to spoil it for President Trump. |
| 0:34.0 | A dynastic Democrat forging a new path. |
| 0:38.0 | Bobby Kennedy Jr. is running, not as a Democrat anymore for the White House, |
| 0:42.0 | as an independent |
| 0:44.0 | a shocking development any other news day this would be the lead story |
| 0:48.0 | this isn't a story about a possible president |
| 0:51.2 | ask not what this election can do for Bobby Kennedy Jr, but what Bobby |
| 0:55.5 | Kennedy Jr. could do for this election. |
| 0:59.4 | You're listening to stories of our times, from The Times and the Sunday Times. I'm Luke Jones. Today, meet |
| 1:06.8 | Robert Kennedy Jr. The Election Wild Card. I'm David Charter. I'm the US editor of The Times based in Washington DC. |
| 1:18.0 | Take us back a few weeks I think it was to Philadelphia you were there on the independence mall to see |
| 1:27.2 | a candidate give a speech who was he and and what was he saying? |
| 1:32.3 | I've traveled millions of American miles across my career and to quote Tennyson, I am part of all whom |
| 1:40.5 | I have met. |
| 1:41.9 | For 40 years, Americans across the country have met. For 40 years Americans across the country have fortified me with their |
| 1:46.7 | courage and their idealism. |
| 1:49.8 | So this is Robert Francis Kennedy Jr. He's a member of the famous Kennedy family which has long |
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