Kennedy Running For President 2024 Party. Kennedy's announcement complicates a 2024 race heading toward a rematch between president joe biden, a democrat, and former president donald trump, the republican frontrunner in opinion polls. A day after vice president kamala harris officially accepted the democratic party’s nomination for president, independent candidate robert f.

Is running in the 2024 race as an independent after first launching as a democratic challenger to president. Kennedy jr., who had been running as an independent, suspended his campaign on friday and threw his support behind former president donald j.