(Trends Wide Spanish) — The president of the United States, Joe Biden, made official his intention to run for re-election in the United States elections scheduled for 2024, and against him will compete on the Democratic side, for the moment, an author of self-help books and a man with a last name that continues to make history in American politics. Here, what you need to know about Democrats Marianne Williamson and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Kennedy, 69, is a well-known anti-vaccine activist, a nephew of the assassinated president. John F. Kennedy and son of Robert F. Kennedy, former US Attorney General and presidential candidate, assassinated in 1968.
His reputation is controversial, as he has been outspoken as a longtime anti-vaccine skeptic.
Kennedy has promoted discredited claims linking vaccines to autism and founded the anti-vaccine organization Children’s Health Defense. In addition, he harshly criticized the government’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic and lashed out at the covid-19 vaccine and vaccination mandates.
In 2022, Kennedy made reference to Nazi Germany during an anti-vaccine speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. The set of these actions resulted in Instagram then removing his account for “repeatedly sharing discredited claims about the coronavirus or vaccines.”
Marianne Williamson
Marianne Williamson, 70, is known for being a self-help book writer.
Williamson, who became Oprah Winfrey’s spiritual adviser, entered the world of politics in 2014, when she ran unsuccessfully as an independent candidate to represent California in the House of Representatives.
In 2019, the self-help guru ran for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. However, she withdrew before the vote due to lack of support.
In a February statement, Williamson said she was motivated to seek the nomination by “the realization of the Democratic Party’s distancing from the party of President Franklin Roosevelt” and “the economic injustices millions of Americans suffer due to the influence of corporate money.” in our political system.
“The opponent is not a specific situation or circumstance,” Williamson said in March, announcing his intentions. “The opponent is an economic mindset that has taken over this country for the last 50 years.”
Biden’s announcement
In a video released early Tuesday, Biden framed next year’s race as a fight against Republican extremism, implicitly arguing that he needed more time to fully deliver on his promise to restore the nation’s character.
“When I ran for president four years ago, I said we were in a battle for the soul of America. And we are still fighting,” Biden says in the video, which opens with footage of the Capitol insurrection on January 6, 2021, and abortion rights activists protesting at the US Supreme Court.
You can read all the details of his announcement here.
With reporting from Trends Wide’s Veronica Stracqualursi, Shania Shelton, Kevin Liptak, Arlette Saenz and Maegan Vazquez.
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(Trends Wide Spanish) — The president of the United States, Joe Biden, made official his intention to run for re-election in the United States elections scheduled for 2024, and against him will compete on the Democratic side, for the moment, an author of self-help books and a man with a last name that continues to make history in American politics. Here, what you need to know about Democrats Marianne Williamson and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Kennedy, 69, is a well-known anti-vaccine activist, a nephew of the assassinated president. John F. Kennedy and son of Robert F. Kennedy, former US Attorney General and presidential candidate, assassinated in 1968.
His reputation is controversial, as he has been outspoken as a longtime anti-vaccine skeptic.
Kennedy has promoted discredited claims linking vaccines to autism and founded the anti-vaccine organization Children’s Health Defense. In addition, he harshly criticized the government’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic and lashed out at the covid-19 vaccine and vaccination mandates.
In 2022, Kennedy made reference to Nazi Germany during an anti-vaccine speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. The set of these actions resulted in Instagram then removing his account for “repeatedly sharing discredited claims about the coronavirus or vaccines.”
Marianne Williamson
Marianne Williamson, 70, is known for being a self-help book writer.
Williamson, who became Oprah Winfrey’s spiritual adviser, entered the world of politics in 2014, when she ran unsuccessfully as an independent candidate to represent California in the House of Representatives.
In 2019, the self-help guru ran for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. However, she withdrew before the vote due to lack of support.
In a February statement, Williamson said she was motivated to seek the nomination by “the realization of the Democratic Party’s distancing from the party of President Franklin Roosevelt” and “the economic injustices millions of Americans suffer due to the influence of corporate money.” in our political system.
“The opponent is not a specific situation or circumstance,” Williamson said in March, announcing his intentions. “The opponent is an economic mindset that has taken over this country for the last 50 years.”
Biden’s announcement
In a video released early Tuesday, Biden framed next year’s race as a fight against Republican extremism, implicitly arguing that he needed more time to fully deliver on his promise to restore the nation’s character.
“When I ran for president four years ago, I said we were in a battle for the soul of America. And we are still fighting,” Biden says in the video, which opens with footage of the Capitol insurrection on January 6, 2021, and abortion rights activists protesting at the US Supreme Court.
You can read all the details of his announcement here.
With reporting from Trends Wide’s Veronica Stracqualursi, Shania Shelton, Kevin Liptak, Arlette Saenz and Maegan Vazquez.
