Along with slamming RFK Jr.’s vaccine views and different controversies, a number of members of the Kennedy household have been additionally vocal when he introduced his presidential run.
“I strongly condemn my brother’s deplorable and untruthful remarks final week about Covid being engineered for ethnic focusing on,” stated Kerry Kennedy. “His statements don’t characterize what I consider or what Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights stand for, with our 50+-year observe report of defending rights and standing towards racism and all types of discrimination.”
Kerry later backed Joe Biden, calling him a “champion of all of the rights and freedoms that [her] father and uncle stood for.”
“The Kennedy household endorses Joe Biden for president,” she added.
Former Congressman Joseph Kennedy II added after the Biden endorsement rally, “We can not do something that in any means strips even one vote from President Biden. You place the title Kennedy on the poll, and Democrats are going to really feel torn. We try to make them perceive that this is a matter that they don’t have to really feel torn about.”
Joseph Kennedy III, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Rory Kennedy, Stephen Kennedy Smith, Jack Schlossberg, and Bobby Shriver additionally publicly criticized RFK Jr.
The household drama resurfaced when reviews claimed RFK Jr. had reportedly not been invited to Tatiana Schlossberg’s funeral.
“RFK Jr., is not going to be invited, and the household made that call deliberately. They’re attempting to protect the children and handle their grief with out additional public scrutiny or controversy,” a supply advised Rob Shuter’s Substack web page.
Tatiana, who died on December 30, 2025, on the age of 35, beforehand slammed RFK Jr. in a New Yorker essay.
“I watched from my hospital mattress as Bobby, within the face of logic and customary sense, was confirmed for the place, regardless of by no means having labored in drugs, public well being, or the federal government,” she wrote. “I watched as Bobby reduce almost a half billion {dollars} for analysis into mRNA vaccines, know-how that may very well be used towards sure cancers; slashed billions in funding from the Nationwide Institutes of Well being, the world’s largest sponsor of medical analysis; and threatened to oust the panel of medical specialists charged with recommending preventive most cancers screenings.”