That's right.
The Kennedy family endorses Joe Biden
for president
When Daddy announced
his bid
for the presidency in 1968,
he talked about the perilous course
our country would take under
the wrong leadership.
And he said,
I feel obliged to do all that I can.
I cannot stand aside.
We are here
because we feel obliged to do all that
we can.
We cannot stand aside in this election.
No American can stand aside.
We must vote
in 20, 24.
There are only two candidates
with any chance
of winning the presidency.
We know them well.
Four years ago,
our country was crippled by COVID.
Kept up excuse me, chaos.
And the fact of unprincipled leadership.
Four years later,
thanks to Joe Biden,
we are enjoying an unprecedented
economic expansion
with more people working.
And at any time in our history.
Over 15 million
new jobs have been created.
Almost 800,000 manufacturing jobs.
Thank you. Joe Biden.
Wages are up.
Inflation caused by once in a generation
pandemic is coming down.
Thank you.
Joe Biden.
He's made vast investments
in historically black
colleges and universities
to create more access to opportunity.
He has appointed more black women
to circuit courts
than every other president combined.
Three
And put
Dungy, Brown, Jackson
on the Supreme Court.
Thank you.
Joe Biden
He rebuilt the refugee program
that was
decimated by his predecessor
and brought together
a coalition of world leaders
to stop rushing aggression in Ukraine.
Thank you.
Joe Biden
We're standing here
in the Martin Luther
King Recreation Center for Children
and family members who lost her father.
Let us not forget that President Biden
has always
advocated for the rights of people
to live, to play and to go to school
in communities free of gun violence.
He's signed
the most significant
bipartisan gun safety legislation
in 30 years. Thank you. Joe Biden
As Donald
Trump proudly brags about overturning
Roe v Wade.
Rolling black back the clock.
50 years to
when women couldn't
make our own health care decisions.
President Biden
is fighting to get our freedoms back.
Thank you, Joe Biden.
This is only
part of the very long list of freedoms
and rights
that President Biden
is protecting
during a period of constant assault.
Make no mistake, all these rights
and freedoms
are on the ballot in November.
Donald Trump is running
to take us backwards,
attacking the most basic
rights and freedoms
that are
at the core of who we are as Americans.
He said he will be a dictator on day one,
even saying he wants
to suspend the Constitution.
So he can go after his enemies,
after his critics, after the press.
He is running to use his power
to punish his enemies, silence
his opponents
and incite more chaos, division
and political violence
with his extreme agenda.
He is most
anti Democrat radical president in
American history.
President Trump
spews dangerous
conspiracy theories
on climate change,
vaccines, windmills, and voter fraud.
He is pledging to repeal
the Affordable Care Act
and cut Social Security and Medicare,
ripping away
health care and earned benefits
for millions of Americans
who rely on them in their retirement.
I can only imagine
how Donald Trump's outrageous lies
and behavior
would have horrified my father,
Senator Robert F Kennedy,
who proudly served
as the attorney general
of the United States,
and honored his pledge to uphold the law
and protect the country.
Dad has stood for equal justice
for human rights
and freedom from want and fear.
Just as President Biden does
today,
Donald Trump mocks
these values, just as he mocks
our system of laws He predicted a blood
bloodbath if he loses the election.
We cannot afford to ignore his warning.
We can say today with no less urgency
that our rights and freedoms
are once again in peril.
This is why we all need to come together
in a campaign
that should night
not unite not only Democrats,
but all Americans, including Republicans
and independents
who believe in what Lincoln called
the better angels of our nature.
A vote
a vote for Joe Biden
is a vote for our democracy
and our decency
It is a vote
for what my father called
in his own presidential announcement.
1968 our right to the moral leadership
of this planet.
As President Biden remembers when Dr.
King died,
Daddy addressed
a crowd organized by John Lewis
in the largest black community
in Indianapolis.
And not terrible night,
he said, What we need in
the United States is not division.
What we need in
the United States is not hatred.
What we need in
the United States is not violence
or lawlessness, but love and wisdom
and compassion toward one another.
And a feeling of justice
towards those who still suffer
in this country,
whether they be black or they be liked.
Joe Biden's every decision
is informed by his love,
his wisdom
and his compassion
towards those who suffer.
That is why we are so happy today
to pledge our unwavering support
to President Joe Biden
and President Kamala Harris.
God bless all of you.
God bless America.
And please welcome President Joe Biden.
Would
thank you
Oh, please have a seat.
If you have one
mom and dad,
I hope you are listening
What an incredible honor.
I don't want to become emotional,
but what an incredible honor
to have the support
of the Kennedy family.
John White, Jr.
Thanks for those kind words
and for carrying on your family's
civil rights legacy.
And so is your son.
Kaylen,
who was doing a hell
of a job on our campaign.
It's helping
us win Pennsylvania.
Jerry, I
as most meaningful introduction
I've ever gotten in my life.
Other my sister introduced me.
You're listening there
to President Joe Biden
thanking the Kennedy family
for their endorsement.
And Boris,
what is important to note in
this moment is often in politics
and in elections,
endorsements are fine,
but they don't really do much there.
But in this case,
because of the broader picture,
which is the fact that Robert F Kennedy
Jr is running
as a third party candidate,
that as of today, he's
now on the ballot in Utah and Michigan
and that he's eating away and threatens
to eat away at a key
part of the Biden coalition,
which is young voters.
And so to see the the larger
Kennedy family,
not just saying
we don't support our brother,
our cousin, who
whatever that he is in relation to them,
but to see to see them
saying we have full throated
Lee endorsed Joe Biden
is interesting
and it does create quite a contrast
for a lot of people, again,
especially younger voters
who maybe aren't familiar
with the entire picture. Right?
Yeah.
It's as much
an endorsement of Joe Biden
as it is a rejection of RFK Jr.
And we heard from his sister
there a moment ago,
Kerry Kennedy describing Joe Biden
as my hero,
comparing his efforts in politics
to that of her father's in the 1960s.
She said that Joe
Biden is always running into the flames
so that we don't have to.
She had this repeated
refrain in her speech
saying thank you Joe
Biden, for a number of different things,
saying that
essentially Americans can't
stand by in this election.
They have to support
Joe Biden
because he stands for democracy.
The president was obviously moved by
he described it as an honor.
He said it was the most
meaningful introduction
that he's gotten in his
life aside from his sister.