PHILADELPHIA — President Joe Biden will receive the endorsement of members of the Kennedy family during a campaign visit to Philadelphia today, a rebuke of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who continues his campaign as an independent candidate for president.
Biden is the second Irish Catholic to serve as president and has often cited President John F. Kennedy and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy as the inspiration for his career in public service.
Kerry Kennedy, daughter of Robert F. Kennedy, is expected to call Biden “a champion for all the rights and freedoms that my father and uncles stood for,” according to prepared remarks seen by the Capital-Star.
“I can only imagine how Donald Trump’s outrageous lies and behavior would have horrified my father,” Kennedy will tell the gathering in Philadelphia. “We can say today, with no less urgency, that our rights and freedoms are once again in peril. That is why we all need to come together in a campaign that should unite not only Democrats, but all Americans, including Republicans, and independents, who believe in what Lincoln called the better angels of our nature.”
The Philadelphia stop wraps up Biden’s week in the Keystone State. He kicked off the three-day visit Tuesday with a speech in his childhood hometown of Scranton, and made his first appearance of the year in western Pennsylvania on Wednesday, rallying with United Steelworkers and making a pit stop at Sheetz.
The four previous visits from Biden in Pennsylvania in 2024 were in the southeast. It’s a densely populated region of the commonwealth where Democrats hold a significant voter registration advantage over Republicans and where Biden outpaced Trump in 2020.
As Biden finished his pre-primary election campaign swing in Pennsylvania, Trump was in New York, as his hush money trial continues. Trump made his fourth visit of the year to Pennsylvania April 13, when he attended a fundraiser in Bucks County and a rally in the Lehigh Valley.
Widespread polling shows Biden and Trump in a close race for Pennsylvania’s 19 electoral votes, with Kennedy a possible spoiler for either candidate.. A Franklin & Marshall College poll conducted March 20-31 shows Biden leading Trump by 10 points, although that margin drops down to 2 points when third-party candidates, including Kennedy, are an option.. Multiple national ratings outlets, including the Cook Political Report, describe the presidential race in Pennsylvania as a “toss-up.”
The Pennsylvania primary election is April 23.
This is a developing story that will be updated.
Originally published at penncapital-star.com,by John Cole
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