RFK Jr has a vision to change America. His family say he’s a crackpot
The IndependentSign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “The blue team-red team thing has run its course,” said Stephan Ott, a 43-year-old tech consultant from Philadelphia who was among the 1,000 or so supporters who showed up to hear Kennedy’s announcement on Monday. They want someone to bring them together and make this country better.” Cheryl Hines, wife of presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr, speaks during a campaign event in Philadelphia on Monday Kyle Kemper, a “crypto enthusiast” and anti-vaxxer who also happens to be Justin Trudeau’s half-brother, hyped up the crowd ahead of Kennedy’s speech with a chants of “The remedy is Kennedy’. ‘They’re afraid of him’ On 28 September, Kennedy strode on stage at the opening of his New Jersey campaign headquarters to chants of “Bobby, Bobby”. He blamed the “corrupt merger of state and corporate power” for declining property ownership rates among the middle class, saying: “They’re strip-mining the wealth of the American people, and they’re doing it right in front of us.” One man in his thirties, Matt, who declined to give his last name, told The Independent he was attending his second Kennedy campaign event in the space of a month.