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Joe Biden and Donald Trump are the two major party candidates in the 2024 presidential election, but dozens of other people have filed to run.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n None are on a realistically possible path to the White House, but the most well-known threaten to siphon away support from the the Democratic president and his Republican rival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here are the candidates with the greatest potential to disrupt the race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A former environmental lawyer known for his anti-vaccine activism, Mr Kennedy initially sought to run as a Democrat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But after failing to gain support within the party that is home to his family’s political dynasty, the 70-year-old mounted an independent challenge to what he called the “two-headed monster” of American politics,<\/p>\n\n\n\n At least 15 of his relatives have endorsed Mr Biden, which could blunt the threat Mr Kennedy poses to the president’s re-election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “The Democrats are frightened that I’m going to spoil the election for President Biden. The Republicans are frightened that I’m going to spoil it for President Trump,” he said at a rally in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “The truth is, they’re both right.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n During his campaign, Mr Kennedy has been criticised for repeating debunked conspiracy theories, such as a connection between childhood vaccines and autism, and for once likening Covid vaccine mandates to Nazi Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But his populist economic message and criticism of the two major parties has seen him break through among many disaffected and independent voters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mr Kennedy stands little chance of winning the presidency – he has so far qualified to be on the ballot in only seven states – but polls show that he may be drawing away support from both Mr Biden and Mr Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In March, he chose Silicon Valley lawyer and philanthropist Nicole Shanahan<\/a>, another newcomer to presidential politics, as his running mate. Previously a long-time Democratic donor, she bankrolled Mr Kennedy’s attention-grabbing Super Bowl ad<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BBC: Joe Biden and Donald Trump are the two major party candidates in the 2024 presidential election, but dozens of other people have filed to run. None are on a realistically possible path to the White House, but the most well-known threaten to siphon away support from the the Democratic president and his Republican rival. Here are the candidates with the greatest potential to disrupt the race. A former environmental lawyer known for his anti-vaccine activism, Mr Kennedy initially sought to run as a Democrat. But after failing to gain support within the party that is home to his family’s… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39642,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39643,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39641\/revisions\/39643"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}