Long-time Democrat, former presidential candidate

Norman Ray

Global Courant 2023-05-19 05:20:11

A longtime Democratic figure and former presidential candidate stepped back onto the public political scene Thursday when it was announced he will serve as campaign manager for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to defeat President Biden for the party’s 2024 nomination.

Dennis Kucinich, a former Ohio congressman who unsuccessfully ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008 against then-senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, has been advising Kennedy for months and introduced him last month at the Boston campaign kickoff .

Kennedy’s campaign made the nomination official a press release he praised Kucinich’s experience, calling him “one of the most important progressive voices in American politics.”

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Democratic presidential nominee Marianne Williamson campaigns in Portsmouth, New Hampshire on March 9, 2023. (Marianne Williamson Campaign)

Kennedy and Williamson have denounced the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) plan not to hold primary debates between the three candidates, although it is common practice for the party in power to avoid primaries when it is in control of the White House.

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