The seventy-four-year-old senator Ed Markey defeated 39-year-old Kennedy in the Democratic primary in Massachusetts. This is a historic defeat for the Kennedy “dynasty”: it is the first time that a member of the family of Irish origin who gave the US President John Fitzgerald is defeated in Massachusetts.
Markey, 37 in the House and Senate since 2013, won with a liberal and anti-establishment program supported among others by the senator Elizabeth Warren and by the youngest elected to the Congress, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Markey is favored to win the senatorial seat in the November election: only two Republicans have won in the state of Massachusetts in the past 50 years.
Kennedy, great-grandson of President John Fitgerald assassinated in 1963, lost according to the latest figures, obtaining 46.5% of the votes against Markey’s 53.5%. Having chosen to participate in the ballot for the Senate, Kennedy, exponent of the fourth generation of the family and entered the House of Representatives in 2013, will not be able to run to reconfirm his seat in the House: the next Congress will therefore have no member of the historic family of the US policy.
Since 1947, with the exception of only two years, there has always been a Kennedy among those elected to Congress.
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