Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tranh cử Tổng thống với tư cách độc lập, rời cuộc bầu cử sơ bộ của đảng Dân chủ

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In a move (động thái) that could alter (thay đổi) the dynamics of the 2024 election (bầu cử), Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on Monday that he would continue his presidential run (tranh cử tổng thống) as an independent candidate (ứng cử viên độc lập), ending his long-shot pursuit of the Democratic nomination (đề cử của đảng dân chủ) against an incumbent president (tổng thống đương nhiệm).

Speaking to a crowd of supporters (đám đông người ủng hộ) outside the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, Mr. Kennedy, a leading vaccine skeptic and purveyor of conspiracy theories, said he represented “a populist movement that defies left-right division.”

“The Democrats are frightened that I’m going to spoil the election for President Biden, and the Republicans are frightened that I’m going to spoil it for Trump,” he said. “The truth is, they’re both right. My intention is to spoil it for both of them.”

Since announcing his candidacy in April, Mr. Kennedy, 69, has been a sharp critic (chỉ trích gay gắt) of Democratic leadership, which he has accused of “hijacking the party machinery” to stifle (bóp nghẹt) his challenge to Mr. Biden. He has also said, in interviews and in public appearances, that the party has abandoned its principles (từ bỏ các nguyên tắc) and become corrupted.

...In a 45-minute speech on Monday, Mr. Kennedy described encounters across America with people he called the “ranks of the dispossessed (người bị tước quyền sở hữu),” interspersed (đan xen) with angry barbs (lời nói châm chọc, lời nói chua cay) about “the surveillance state (nhà nước giám sát)” and the “tyranny of corruption.” He quoted the Old Testament, John Adams, Martin Luther King Jr., Tennyson and his own father.

To roars of applause, Mr. Kennedy told his supporters they were “declaring independence” from a lengthy list of perceived adversaries (đối thủ, kẻ thù): “Wall Street, Big Tech, Big Pharma”; the “military industrial complex”; “the mercenary (lính đánh thuê) media”; “the cynical elites”; both of the major political parties and “the entire rigged system.”

source: nytimes,