Joe Biden's primary challenger for the 2024 Democratic presidential nomination is having a hard time winning over his party, but Republicans can't get enough.
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early in the week, Andy Roth—the head of the hard-right State Freedom Caucus Network—said some of their membership was seeking to include Kennedy on its list of speakers ahead of the 2024 presidential race.."He's saying things that the left doesn't want to hear. And it's shaking up that primary. So I think his candidacy definitely is very interesting.
But his campaign approach also fits within a long-standing tradition of presidential hopefuls pulling their constituencies from the other major party.and Joe Walsh notably drew the bulk of their support in the 2020 Republican primaries from liberal donors. Further back, California Republican Representative Pete McCloskey unsuccessfully challenged Republican President Richard Nixon on an anti-war platform in 1972 and after dropping out of the race said he wouldn't support Nixon.
But at this juncture, it's difficult to discern whether Kennedy's longshot bid for the White House is as a vanity candidate, a protest candidate or some of each.
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