Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s family members publicly endorsed President Joe Biden, posing with the sitting president for a St. Patrick’s Day photo — a photo from which RFK Jr. was pointedly excluded. But things got much uglier on Friday after the independent presidential candidate announced his plan to endorse former President Donald Trump.
The 2024 presidential race changed a lot over the summer, with a disastrous first debate showing for Biden, Trump getting shot in the head in an attempted assassination, and Biden’s eventual exit from the contest altogether.
With Biden gone, Kennedy pressed the party to go to a contested convention — one in which he could participate fairly after being effectively shut out of the primary. But the Democratic National Committee instead rallied behind Vice President Kamala Harris, handing her the nomination without anyone casting a single vote. In…