Democrat Joseph Kennedy III bowed Tuesday 1is September in a primary that pitted him against Senator Edward Markey. Since JFK had been elected MP there in 1946, the family had never known defeat in an election in the state of the east coast.
Mardi 1is September, an event “unprecedented” has occurred in Massachusetts politics, reports the Boston Globe :
A Kennedy lost an election. ”
Democratic Senator Edward Markey, 74, won the primary between him and Joseph Kennedy III, 39, grandson of Robert Kennedy, the brother of the former president JFK. To achieve this, Markey forgot his career and turned into “Fierce progressive warrior” during a volatile eleven-month campaign, the Boston daily points out in another article.
As recalled by Boston Globe, the powerful Kennedy family have dominated Massachusetts elections for decades, winning over 30 victories and suffering no defeats since John F. Kennedy won an MP seat there in 1946.
“Small earthquake”
For the daily, the failure of Joseph Kennedy III has the effect of a “Small earthquake” in the Democratic camp and poses the question of the end of a dynasty which “Captivated the American nation for nearly a century with its hopeful commitment and its tragedies”.
“It is clear that the last name does not mean as much as it once did”, told the Boston Globe Jim Manley, former assistant to Senator Ted Kennedy, who died in 2009. Of Irish and Catholic origin, the Kennedys have a lot to do with “Represented the American dream” when they burst 70 years ago on a political scene dominated by Protestants, ensures the daily.
But according to the Boston Globe, this outsider trajectory is today embodied by politicians such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, “Progressive spearhead, born in the Bronx to Puerto Rican parents and became the youngest woman elected to the House of Representatives”.
Ocasio-Cortez also supported Ed Markey during the campaign. The latter notably stood out by asserting that the emblematic declaration of JFK “Don’t ask what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country” currently seemed outdated. “It’s time to start asking what your country can do for you”, said the senator.
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