Kerry Kennedy does her best to portray Joe Biden as someone in step with the values of her father and uncle
President Joe Biden listens as Kerry Kennedy speaks at a campaign event in Philadelphia on Thursday. Fifteen members of the Kennedy family have endorsed Biden’s re-election effort. Photograph: Doug Mills/New York Times
At the Philadelphia stop, Kerry Kennedy was flanked by her sisters, Kathleen and Rory, when she gave her address and within minutes she had transported the crowd down to the affluent suburbs outside Washington, in northern Virginia, on an evening some 56 years ago, when she was five years old. It was two nights after Martin Luther King had been assassinated on April 4th, 1968, and the Kennedys were at home watching images of downtown Washington aflame as protesters rioted.
In a passionate 11-minute address, Kerry Kennedy sought to portray Biden as someone walking in step with the values of her father and uncle, citing the 15 million new jobs that have been created since the great pause of Covid, arguing that wages are up and inflation is coming down, that he appointed more black women to circuit courts than every other president combined.
It was an effort to reclaim the family mystique and aura that has helped RFK jnr to generate eye-catching numbers in the polls, voters who might be tempted to switch from Democrat to Kennedy this November. She referenced her father’s 1968 warning about the “perilous course” the United States would take under the wrong leadership, and never has that fear been so alive as it is for many Americans as summer approaches.
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