Robert F Kennedy Jr has filed the paperwork with the the Federal Election Commission to run for 2024 Presidential elections as a Democrat, his campaign treasurer John E. Sullivan confirmed on Wednesday. The 69-year-old will likely challenge President Joe Biden in the Democratic primary.

Self-help author Marianne Williamson is also running in the Democratic race and it is fair to say that Kennedy Jr’s bid to beat Biden is a long shot. The environmental lawyer and anti-vaccine activist is a nephew of President John F. Kennedy and the son of his slain brother Robert F. Kennedy.

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Kennedy Jr’s presidential campaign seems ambitious at best. He has joined an almost empty Democratic field. While Joe Biden is yet to launch his 2024 campaign, the President has insisted that he plans to run for a second term. Marianne Williamson became a household name in 2019-20, especially after her statements about ‘supernatural forces’ in the Democratic primary debates went viral on social media. About 20,000 voters from nearly 37 million went for her.

For Biden, polls suggest that his age, 80, is a major issue. However, there is no major alternative to block the incumbent.

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RFK Jr’s anti-vaccine stance might hurt his case. The 69-year-old has been discrediting vaccines, liking them to autism, long before the COVID-19 pandemic. He founded an anti-vaccine organization called Children’s Health Defense. He has also criticised the government for their handling of coronavirus.

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Kennedy Jr’s sister Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, brother Joseph P. Kennedy II and niece Maeve Kennedy McKean have publicly denounced his anti-vaccine views. In a Politico Magazine op-ed, they argued that he was “part of a misinformation campaign that’s having heartbreaking – and deadly – consequences.”

In 2021, RFK Jr released a book – “The Real Anthony Fauci”. He accused US’s top infectious disease doctor of assisting in “a historic coup d’etat against Western democracy”.  Kennedy has also appeared at events pushing ‘2020 presidential election stolen’ narrative.