Rep. Joe Kennedy Announces Campaign for U.S Senate

Rep. Joe Kennedy Announces Campaign for U.S Senate

U.S. Representative Joe Kennedy III declared his candidacy for the U.S. Senate on Saturday.

“I’m running because our country is at a moment of truth. Donald Trump has forced a long-overdue reckoning in America. And how we respond will say everything about who we are. Yes, that means confronting Trump. Every single day. But our focus must be bigger and bolder than simply stopping Donald Trump,” said Kennedy in a statement.

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He is the first member of the Kennedy family to run for U.S. Senate from Massachusetts since Edward Kennedy in 1962.

Kennedy will face 73-year-old incumbent Senator Edward Markey in the 2020 Democratic primary.

About Kennedy

Kennedy, 38, is the grandson of Robert Kennedy, who served as attorney general under his brother John F. Kennedy’s administration.

He was first elected to Congress in 2012.

In 2018, he gave the Democratic response to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address.

Kennedy added, “I've spent my career fighting for the folks who have been shut out, let down, and left behind. I'm running for US Senate so we can build a new system that won't fail them again.”