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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Richard Luscombe

Kennedy family members endorse Biden in stinging rebuke to RFK Jr

a man speaks from behind a lectern
Joe Biden campaigns alongside members of the Kennedy family in Philadelphia on Thursday. Photograph: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images

Prominent members of the Kennedy political dynasty delivered a full-throated endorsement of Joe Biden’s re-election campaign on Thursday, a pointed message that was in equal measure a stinging repudiation of their relative Robert F Kennedy Jr, who is making an independent run for the White House.

Kerry Kennedy, one of six siblings of the controversial candidate on stage at a Biden campaign event in Philadelphia, called the US president “my hero” as she celebrated a litany of his achievements she said would have pleased her father, the late former US attorney general Robert F Kennedy and late uncle and president John F Kennedy.

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