Democrats will try to minimize it, but a Kennedy endorsing Donald Trump is more than newsworthy.
Just when you thought the 2024 presidential race could not get any crazier, it does. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suspended his campaign and endorsed Donald Trump on Friday, August 23. As shocking as RFK Jr.’s move might seem, it’s just the latest bombshell in a race marked by the criminal conviction and near-assassination of Trump, and a debate meltdown by Joe Biden, which led to his being replaced atop the ticket by Kamala Harris. So perhaps we should no longer be surprised by anything that happens this election year.
However, just the fact that a scion of the Kennedy clan, which dominated and defined the Democratic Party for decades, is endorsing perhaps the most controversial Republican of the modern age is by itself a…