RFK Jr. will likely remain on ballot in key swing states despite suspending campaign



Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will likely still appear on the ballot in some key swing states even though he suspended his independent bid for the presidency last week.

According to officials, RFK Jr. will be on the ballot in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Nevada because he did not withdraw his name in time.

'He wants to leave to go support the two party system, (and that) goes against the very reason he was our candidate to begin with.'

RFK Jr. was slated to be the nominee for the Natural Law Party in Michigan. Since the party already nominated him and the primary has closed, he cannot remove his name from consideration, Axios reported.

"Minor party candidates cannot withdraw, so his name will remain on the ballot in the November election," said Cheri Hardmon, senior press secretary for Democratic Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson.

"The Natural Law Party held their convention to select electors for [RFK Jr.]. They cannot meet at this point to select new electors since it's past the primary."

Natural Law Party chair Doug Dern is frustrated with Kennedy, claiming he helped raised the profile of the party but will now likely sink its prospects in the future.

"The (Natural Law Party) has been under the radar for decades, and (Kennedy) has brought us national attention," Dern told Bridge Michigan in an email.

"He wants to leave to go support the two party system, (and that) goes against the very reason he was our candidate to begin with. If he comes off it weakens our chances to maintain ballot access."

According to state law, Kennedy will need to earn at least 24,679 in this year's election to permit the Natural Law Party to appear on the ballot in Michigan in future elections, Bridge Michigan claimed. After endorsing former President Donald Trump, a Republican, for president this year, Kennedy may not reach that threshold.

The Wisconsin Elections Commission has reached a similar conclusion.

Last Friday, the day he suspended his campaign, RFK Jr. requested that his name be removed from the Wisconsin ballot. However, the WEC voted 5-1 on Tuesday to refuse the request, claiming that candidates may not decline nomination after filing to appear on the ballot, WKOW reported.

Republican Robert Spindell, the WEC vice chair, cast the lone dissenting vote.

Some on the WEC expressed misgivings about including RFK Jr. on the ballot and introduced a motion to keep him off, but that motion was defeated 3-3. Green Party candidate Jill Stein will remain on the ballot as well.

RFK Jr. will also likely appear on the ballot in Nevada, where state law requires candidates to withdraw their names from the ballot within seven business days of the filing deadline, the Nevada Independent reported. To comply with that statute, RFK Jr. would have had to withdraw his name by August 20, three days before he suspended his campaign.

The Nevada Independent and Bridge Michigan noted that a lawsuit could still force or allow their respective states to remove Kennedy's name.

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JD Vance teases possible RFK Jr. role in Trump admin, tells Glenn Beck what Harris should be doing post-assassination attempt



Although unable to sit through all of the third night of the Democratic National Convention, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) told Blaze Media co-founder and nationally syndicated radio host Glenn Beck he saw enough to draw conclusions about the Democratic Party's "collective amnesia" and the revisionist campaign under way to sever Kamala Harris from her part in the current administration's various failings.

Extra to discussing this revisionism on Thursday's episode of "The Glenn Beck Program," Vance also highlighted a possible role for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a future Trump administration as well as his expectation for Harris in the wake of the attempted July 13 assassination attempt.

A federal champion for pandemic exiles

Glenn Beck pressed Vance on whether there has been any serious discussion about Elon Musk and RFK Jr. working in a future Trump administration.

When speaking with President Donald Trump on X Spaces last week, Musk raised the possibility of running a novel committee tasked with eliminating government inefficiencies and waste. Although the two billionaires commiserated about the extent of government waste, the conversation concluded without any concrete commitments.

'I think RFK really could do a lot for us.'

However, when Reuters asked whether he would consider Musk for an advisory role or Cabinet-level position, Trump replied, "He's a very smart guy. I certainly would, if he would do it, I certainly would. He's a brilliant guy."

Vance told Beck it was prudent "not to put the cart too much before the horse with Elon."

"I think he's a genius and I think he could help us a great deal, but we have to win the election first, of course, before we give Elon any positions or any titles."

The Ohio senator was alternatively willing to hint at a possible role for Kennedy, whom Trump previously appointed in 2017 to run a commission on vaccine safety and integrity.

"I think RFK really could do a lot for us on questions of — you know, we have 8,000 veterans, I believe, maybe more, that we kicked out of the military because they refused to take the vaccine," said Vance.

The Pentagon under the Biden-Harris administration mandated COVID-19 vaccinations for all service members in 2021.

Roughly 17,000 service members in the U.S. military refused the vaccines. According to the Military Times, at least 8,339 service members were unceremoniously thrown out. Approximately 70% of those ousted for their refusal to take the novel mRNA vaccine reportedly received general discharges.

"I'd love for RFK to take a look at that, but I haven't talked to him," continued Vance. "I don't know what he's interested in."

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Trump allies such as Stephen Bannon have long advocated for a collaboration of some kind between Trump and Kennedy. Blaze News previously reported that the possibility finally began to firm up last week when RFK Jr.'s running mate, Nicole Shanahan, indicated that the Kennedy campaign was contemplating "join[ing] forces" with Trump.

Shanahan explained that "Big Pharma" was Trump's "Achilles' heel" during his first presidential term. After all, it was the Trump administration that kicked off Operation Warp Speed in May 2020, enabling quicker approval and production of vaccines during the pandemic — vaccines that ultimately proved to be neither as safe nor as effective as initially promised.

"I don't think he understood that it would cripple his entire reputation and legacy as much as it did," added Shanahan.

Following the podcast, Kennedy released a statement, stressing, "I am willing to talk with leaders of any political party to further the goals I have served for 40 years in my career and in this campaign."

Trump told CNN's Kristen Holmes at a campaign stop in Michigan Tuesday he "probably would" consider Kennedy for a role in his administration.

Others in the Trump camp appear keen on bringing Kennedy aboard in some capacity.

Donald Trump Jr. told Beck earlier this week that he loves the idea of giving RFK Jr. "some sort of role in some sort of major, you know, three-letter entity or whatever it may be and letting him blow it up."

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Investigating the shooting of Harris' opponent

On Thursday, Beck also raised the matter of the investigation into the July 13 assassination attempt that left Trump bloodied and killed retired volunteer fire chief Corey Comperatore.

'Maybe the mistakes were not intentional. You never know, of course, until you do the actual investigation.'

Vance said he was dissatisfied with the information produced so far by investigators.

"There clearly needs to be some better understanding of what broke about the leadership in the wake of President Trump's assassination attempt," said Vance. "This is, frankly, on Congress, it's on Chuck Schumer's United States Senate, and it's on the Biden administration to get to the bottom of what mistakes were made."

"Maybe the mistakes were not intentional. You never know, of course, until you do the actual investigation, but you have to have a real investigation," continued the senator. "I'm looking at this from the perspective of America's citizens: I'd be demanding that Kamala Harris, who's the vice president of the United States, actually gets to the bottom of this and empowers your government to do a real investigation. That just has not happened yet."

Vance suggested that it remains unclear whether the security failures on July 13 came down to the incompetence of a few individuals, the breakdown of certain processes or procures, or perhaps "something more systematic."

"These are the sorts of things where, you know, we always believe in democratic government that sunshine is the best disinfectant, and so we really do have to have, I think, a more honest account of what went on," added Vance.

Trump's running mate pressed the point, telling Beck that whereas he and other minority senators are limited in what they can do, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and the vice president could quickly ascertain the facts about the shooting and security breakdown, if only they "made this a priority."

In the meantime, there are signs that critical facts related to the shooting are being withheld from the public.

Blaze News recently noted, for instance, that Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the Biden-Harris FBI for records pertaining to the bureau's coordination with the Secret Service in preparation for Trump's July 13 rally in Pennsylvania.

The FBI reportedly rejected the request, citing FOIA exemption 7A, which allows withholding of information that "would deprive a person of a right to a fair trial or an impartial adjudication."

Judicial Watch characterized the rejection as a "major-league cover-up on the near-assassination of former President Trump."

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Democratic 'amnesia'

Although Vance would like Harris to help clarify details about the recent past, he suggested earlier in the interview that historical accuracy may not be her strong suit.

The senator told Beck that Harris' campaign is running on a "kind of collective amnesia, where they say that Kamala Harris will do this thing on day one, or Kamala Harris has a vision to accomplish that thing, and then you realize that Kamala Harris has been the vice president for three and a half years."

"She has affirmatively made all of these problems worse, not better, during her time in office," continued Vance. "So you can't say Kamala Harris is going to secure the border because she opened it up. You can't say Kamala Harris is going to lower inflation because she cast the deciding vote on programs that increased inflation."

Beck marveled at how quickly the narrative was adapted to suit Democrats' interests, noting that the same political operatives who were just over a month ago denigrating critics for saying the economy was bad are now claiming Harris is going to fix the economy.

"Glenn, you raise a really important point here, which is that if you're an American citizen and you paid attention to this election, you'd be forgiven for having a headache from the ricocheting message of the Democratic Party," said Vance.

"A month ago, it was, 'The Biden economy was great. Don't believe your lying eyes. Just vote for Joe Biden.' And now it's, 'Yes, the economy is terrible, but Kamala Harris, who's been vice president for three and a half years, is going to come in and fix all these things."

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Glenn Beck / RFK Jr. interview going viral — especially the part when Kennedy says how Fauci avoided jail time ...



Last week, Glenn Beck sat down with independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for an extensive interview. The duo broached a wide range of subjects, including the World Economic Forum, NATO, the conflicts in Russia/Ukraine and Israel/Gaza, climate change, and of course, Big Pharma — which Kennedy has been incredibly outspoken about.

On that subject, Kennedy was quick to bring up the absurdity of how COVID-19 was handled, starting with Donald Trump.

“During COVID ... President Trump got rolled by his bureaucrats, and he came in saying, ‘I’m a businessman, I’m gonna run this place like a business,' [so] he gave the keys to all of our shops and stores and businesses to Tony Fauci and shut down 3.3 million businesses,” he told Glenn.

Glenn agreed wholeheartedly and followed with a question we all want answered: “What do you do to restore the trust [in the medical industry]?”

“What we now know because of the Wuhan lab ... [is] they’re messing with Ebola and they’re messing with Chikungunya and all of these really horrific diseases ... with 50%, 20%, 10% [mortality rates],” he told Glenn, adding that “of course some of them escape every year.”

Who’s behind this atrocity?

If you guessed Anthony Fauci, you’re correct.

Kennedy explained that when the Patriot Act was passed, it mandated “that any federal officer or employee who violates [the Geneva Convention or the 1973 Bioweapons Convention] cannot be prosecuted.”

“That relaunched the bioweapons arms race,” he said. The Pentagon “started redirecting all that money to Anthony Fauci to do bioweapons research.”

“So, why isn’t he in jail?” Glenn asked.

“He’s not in jail because Joe Biden is president,” was Kennedy’s frank answer.

That honesty perked up the ears of news outlets such as the New York Post and the Daily Mail, which published articles covering Glenn and Kennedy’s candid conversation.

To see the full interview, watch the video below.


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RFK Jr. admits he was WRONG to call for Glenn Beck’s censorship: 'I would never say anything like that today'



Last week, independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sat down for an extensive interview with Glenn Beck. The two discussed a range of subjects, including the World Economic Forum (which Kennedy fittingly called the “billionaires boys' club”), the complexities of NATO, the depravity of Big Pharma, and the ongoing conflicts between Russia/Ukraine and Israel/Gaza, among other issues.

Glenn also pressed Kennedy on his thoughts regarding ESG, the Second Amendment, as well as the candidate's previous statements on climate change — one of which was aimed directly at Glenn.

At a Live Earth concert back in 2007, RFK Jr. made the following statement:

“So, I'm gonna tell you this, that the next time you see John Stossel or Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity — these flat-earthers, these corporate toadies lying to you, lying to the American public, and telling you that global warming doesn't exist — you send an email to their advertisers and tell them you're not going to buy their products anymore. This is treason and we need to start treating them now as traitors.”

“You’re smart enough to know what that means constitutionally,” Glenn said after reading the quote.

“I wouldn’t say that today,” was Kennedy’s humble response. “Part of the reason I wouldn’t say that is because I watched our country run over not only the First Amendment but all three arms of the First Amendment.”

He then cited the way the government “closed a million churches for a year,” “[rolled] over the rights of freedom of assembly,” “shut down 3.3 million businesses with no due process, no just compensation,” and “got rid of the Seventh Amendment” as the reasons he feels differently today.

“The First Amendment was not written to protect speech that we all want to hear. It was for the speech nobody wants to hear,” even if it’s “embarrassing,” “appalling,” or shares “ideas that are horrible ideas,” he told Glenn.

“I would never say anything like that today,” he continued, referring to his 2007 statement. “My thinking on it has evolved, and I can see how dangerous statements like that are.”

To hear Glenn’s response, watch the video below.


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'My heart breaks': Van Jones warns Democrats that RFK Jr. could kneecap Biden in key states



The super PAC backing Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s independent presidential bid recently revealed this week that it has gathered enough signatures in Arizona and Georgia to get its man on the ballot.

Although great news for Kennedy, the prospect of more competition in critical swing states has prompted Biden boosters in the liberal media to fret, CNN commentator Van Jones in particular.

What's the background?

Tony Lyons, co-founder of the super PAC American Values 24, said in a statement Tuesday, "We are pleased to announce that AV24 has met the signature requirements to get Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on the ballot in Arizona and Georgia."

"The grassroots energy and momentum give us more confidence than ever in our ability to knock out the remaining states on our list of states quickly," continued Lyons. "The remaining states are Michigan, South Carolina, Maryland, California, West Virginia, Indiana, Texas, Illinois, New York, and Massachusetts."

Lyons told CNN the PAC has not yet submitted the signatures to elections offices in the two states but will do so when appropriate and in compliance with FEC guidelines.

This news prompted CNN talking head Erin Burnett to consider past polling data indicating what a three-way matchup between former President Donald Trump, President Joe Biden, and Kennedy in Arizona and Georgia might look like.

Swing state concerns

Polls presently show former President Donald Trump leading Biden in both Georgia and Arizona by several points — both states the geriatric Democrat reportedly won in 2020. However, the New York Times/Siena College poll cited by Burnett, which was published in November, found that when presented with the options of Trump, Biden, and Kennedy, 36% of Georgia respondents said they were leaning toward Trump, 29% said Biden, and 24% said Kennedy.

Kennedy apparently had a 12-point lead over Biden among respondents in the 18-19 age group and a 10-point lead among respondents who were neither white nor black.

When asked the same question in Arizona, 33% of likely voters said Trump, 33% said Biden, and 26% said Kennedy. Again, Kennedy performed far better than Biden with the 18-29 age group, leading the president by 15 points. Kennedy also led Biden 33% to 27% among the 30-44 age group.

There are some indications Kennedy's success may hurt Biden and help Trump.

A recent Emerson College Polling/The Hill survey has Trump leading Biden 46-43 in a head-to-head matchup. However, the same survey revealed that in a five-way matchup where Kennedy was in the mix along with Cornel West and Jill Stein, Kennedy grabbed eight points and the other two leftists each picked up one point, leaving Trump with a 43-37 lead over Biden.

Jones' broken heart

With such polling data in mind, Burnett suggested to Jones that Kennedy might decide which of the two presidents will come out victorious in these critical swing states.

Jones, the CNN contributor who cried happy tears after Biden was named the victor in the 2020 election, told Burnett, "If you understand basic math, this is a shock wave through the Democratic party because it takes a lot less than the amount of support he's got — especially among young people — to throw this whole thing [for] Biden."

"We can lose some states, but we can't lose many," said Jones. "We're going to have a tough enough time in Georgia, we're going to have a tough enough time in Arizona anyway, but this is a big deal. This is a very big deal, and I think, for me, my heart breaks."

Kennedy, who has yet to be granted Secret Service protection, may be able to hamstring Kennedy in states besides Arizona and Georgia. CNN indicated that Kennedy is presently on the ballot in Utah and that AV24 also has enough signatures for him to appear on the ballots in New Hampshire and Hawaii.

Jones added that if Kennedy does not "have a pathway to win the White House, and I don't think that he's going to be on enough ballots to win the White House, then you shouldn't be doing this because you can only hurt Joe Biden and hand the country over to Donald Trump."

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Responding to Jones' remarks, Kennedy wrote on X, "They can't ignore us anymore. We're gaining momentum and building a movement to heal America."

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Jimmy Kimmel tries to dunk on RFK Jr., but it goes over about as well as his jokes — and ends in a fact-check



Jimmy Kimmel earned himself a fact-check Tuesday after trying to dunk on Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

On Sunday, Kennedy posted a Twitter message stressing the importance of prioritizing physical health. To bolster his position that the physical health of Americans is an issue presidential candidates should address, RFK Jr. cited the significant weight gain Americans experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic.

"Americans gained an average of 29 pounds during the Covid lockdowns," he tweeted. "I will help turn this around by encouraging our citizens to exercise, eat well, and fortify their immune systems by removing harmful chemicals from our food."

In response, Kimmel misrepresented what Kennedy said and mocked him.

"[W]ow! we each gained 29 lbs? that almost sounds like nonsense! (there’s a good possibility this guy is Borat)," Kimmel responded.

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But much like the jokes on his late-night talk show, Kimmel's attempt to dunk on Kennedy fell flat.

That's because the American Psychological Association found that 42% of Americans reported gaining "undesired" weight during the pandemic. Important to this story, the average weight gain of those who reported "undesired" weight was, that's right, 29 pounds. Twitter added a fact-check to Kimmel's tweet noting the APA's study.

What Kennedy did not assert was that each and every American gained 29 pounds during the pandemic. He simply restated what the APA found about American weight gain.

But the central point of Kennedy's tweet remains true: For unhealthy Americans, the pandemic exacerbated unhealthy behaviors and weight gain. Other studies have corroborated the data point that a significant number of Americans gained weight during the pandemic. Many of those people were already obese or overweight.

Indeed, for America to maintain its status as a global superpower, its people cannot remain bogged down in metabolic diseases and other health problems that can otherwise be avoided with exercise, diet, and self-discipline. That, of course, was Kennedy point all along.

"As President, I will restore America as the global example of health & well-being. Not through pills or syringes, but through character and self-discipline," he said.

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Robert Kennedy Jr. repeats claim CIA assassinated JFK, vows to 'break up' the Central Intelligence Agency



Robert Kennedy Jr. repeated the claim that the Central Intelligence Agency assassinated President John F. Kennedy — his uncle. The Democratic presidential candidate also vowed to "break up" the CIA if he is elected.

Kennedy is the son of Robert Kennedy — who was murdered during his own presidential campaign on June 5, 1968. Kennedy recalled that his father suspected that the CIA was behind the JFK assassination on Nov. 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas.

"It was my father’s first instinct that the agency had killed his brother," Kennedy said of the CIA during an appearance on "Hannity."

Kennedy said that his father, former Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, contacted a CIA desk officer.

Robert F. Kennedy allegedly asked the CIA agent, "Did your people do this?"

"His next call was to [Enrique Ruiz-Williams], who was one of the Cuban Bay of Pigs leaders who had remained very, very close to our family and to my father," Kennedy added. "My father asked him the same question."

Kennedy, 69, said his father then called John McCone, then head of the CIA.

He said his father invited McCone to the family's house, “When I came home [from] Sidwell Friends School, my father was walking in the yard with John McCone, and my father was posing the same question to him, 'Was it our people who did this to my brother?'"

Kennedy noted of JFK's assassination, "Congress found that it was a plot. It was a conspiracy, [and] there were multiple people involved."

Kennedy told host Sean Hannity about the conspiracy theory, "There's millions of pages of documents — of CIA documents, of transcripts of recorded conversations from the Cuban embassy in Mexico City, from — it's hard to summarize the evidence."

"The evidence is overwhelming that the CIA was involved in the murder and in the cover-up," Kennedy said of JFK's assassination during an interview with John Catsimatidis on his WABC 770 AM show "Cats Roundtable." "I think it's beyond a reasonable doubt at this point."

During an interview with UnHerd, Kennedy was asked about JFK's alleged quote that he wanted "to splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds," following the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961.

Kennedy replied, "I think the CIA needs to be reorganized. Most of the people who work at the CIA are patriotic Americans. They’re very good public servants, and we need them to function. But I think we really need to separate the espionage functions of that agency and the Plans Division, the division that actually does dirty tricks, that kills people, that makes wars, that involves itself in actions."

"The CIA has been involved in coup d’etats and attempted coup d’etats in about a third of the countries in the world, most of them democracies," Kennedy alleged. "So if our national policy as a country is to promote democracy, the CIA’s policy has been the opposite. It has been at odds with the United States."

"You overthrow a government in Iraq, and what happens: you create Isis. You then get involved in Syria, from Isis, and you drive 2 million refugees into Europe, which destabilizes democracy all over Europe and basically causes Brexit," he explained. "That’s the outcome of what the CIA considers a successful operation to depose Saddam Hussein. Is it really successful? I don’t think so. We have a 60-year war with Iran, and that war began when the CIA overthrew the first democratically elected government in the 6,000-year history of Persia. And we are still living with the blowback from that operation."

Kennedy declared, "And there’s no accountability, and these agencies need to be accountable, and I would break up the CIA in a way that would make them accountable."

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How Robert Kennedy Jr. will expose the Democratic Party



Environmental lawyer and anti-vaccine activist Robert Kennedy Jr. has officially filed to run for president in 2024 as a Democrat — and Jason Whitlock thinks it’s just what the Democrat Party needs.

Whitlock says, “His values are Middle America. His values are not crazy,” he continues. “He’s not an extremist.”

Kennedy reminds Whitlock of an “old-school Democrat,” predicting that what we’re about to see is that “old-school Democrats aren’t liked by new-school Democrats.”

“In fact,” he says, “they’re hated.”

Whitlock is hopeful that it will be an eye-opening experience for the Democrats who haven’t gone too far to the left over the past couple of years.

But, he asks, “How do you find common ground with people whose values are related to feelings, whose politics and policies and worldview are built around satisfying feelings?”

He continues, saying that a “world that’s based on feelings is a world that produces chaos.”

Whitlock believes that if our society based our politics, policies, and worldviews on a single document — like the Bible — we could finally find some common ground.

He says you “can’t build a society if people don’t want to stand on something concrete. The Bible is concrete whether you like it or not. The Constitution is concrete whether you like it or not.”

“These two,” he continues, “the Bible and the Constitution, have served America incredibly well. Better than any other society in the history of the planet. But let’s all throw it out the window because leftists feel like something different would be better.”


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This MLK Day, Remember How The FBI Targeted Him

The FBI paid tribute to civil rights icon Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday after it spent a decade trying to destroy him.

Parole Board recommends parole for Robert F. Kennedy's killer



After spending more than five decades in prison, the man convicted of fatally shooting Sen. Robert F. Kennedy could eventually be out from behind bars as California parole commissioners recommended on Friday that the man be released on parole, according to the New York Times.

The outlet noted that the the recommendation from the two commissioners does not guarantee that the 77-year-old will actually be released. The move will be reviewed by the legal division of the Board of Parole Hearings, according to the Times. The matter would then head to the governor, who could take several courses of action, one of which is to reverse the parole recommendation.

The parole hearing marked the man's 16th instance to face parole board commissioners, but was unique in that it marked the first occasion that no prosecutor appeared to push for him to remain incarcerated, according to the Times, which noted that Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón has a policy for prosecutors not to go to parole hearings.

Douglas Kennedy, a son of Robert F. Kennedy, went to the hearing and pushed for the commissioners to release Sirhan if they did not believe he was a threat, according to the Times.

"The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department had submitted a letter to the board that it said was on behalf of the Kennedy family and opposed Mr. Sirhan's release," according to the Times. "Robert F. Kennedy Jr. met with Mr. Sirhan in 2017 and said in a letter to the board that the Sheriff's Department's letter did not speak for him and that he thought Mr. Sirhan should be released," the outlet noted.

The murder victim, a senator running for the White House, was slain in 1968 on the heels of his win in California's Democratic primary, according to the Times. He was a brother of President John F Kennedy, who had been assassinated in 1963. Five other individuals were wounded during the 1968 shooting that left Robert F. Kennedy dead.

"Sirhan, who insists he doesn't remember the shooting and had been drinking alcohol just beforehand, was convicted of first-degree murder. He was sentenced to death after his conviction, but that sentence was commuted to life when the California Supreme Court briefly outlawed capital punishment in 1972," according to the Associated Press.

Sirhan is from Jordan could possibly be deported if he is released.

"At the hearing, which was conducted virtually because of the coronavirus pandemic, Mr. Sirhan said he had little memory of the assassination itself, but he said he 'must have' brought the gun to the scene," according to the New York Times.

Investigations have determined that Sirhan was the sole shooter, and Sirhan has said so as well, but some have pursued the notion that there was a different murderer, according to the Times.

"Two of Robert F. Kennedy's children have said they support another investigation," according to the Times, which noted that among them is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. who has said that he believes Sirhan is innocent.