Robert F Kennedy Jr announces independent run for 2024 US election

Kennedy, who had been running as a Democrat, says he feels pain' leaving party of uncle John and father Bobby

Robert F Kennedy Jr, the scion of the Kennedy political family who has spent the last six months running for the 2024 Democratic presidential nomination, announced on Monday he would continue his long-shot pursuit of the White House as an independent.

The 69-year-old conspiracy theorist and vaccination opponent gave a fiery speech from Philadelphia, declaring his independence from the Democratic party and all other parties", and telling a gathering of several hundred supporters of his pain" at leaving the party of his uncle and father, John F Kennedy and Robert F Kennedy.