“I would love for Trump and Kennedy to run together if it comes down to a choice between Trump and Kennedy.” says Sherri Guoan.

On Saturday, Mrs Guoan and her husband Brandon drove more than an hour from Detroit to see Mr Kennedy in Lansing.

Despite calling himself an “old school Democrat, a Kennedy Democrat,” Guoan and his wife voted for Donald Trump in 2020.

The country needs a fresh start, says Mrs Guoan, but she won’t vote for Joe Biden, whom she calls “the worst president this country has ever had.”

The younger Kennedy has the name and the heritage, he says. I wanted to hear what he had to say.

Kennedy Jr. is a member of a Democratic political dynasty. In 1968, while running for the party’s presidential nomination, his father was assassinated.

Earlier this year, Mr Kennedy entered the Democratic Party’s nomination process for the White House. In Philadelphia on Monday, he declared he would run as an independent candidate instead of challenging President Joe Biden.

“Instead of two parties, we have this kind of uniparty, a two-headed monster that bickers constantly with itself as it leads us all over a cliff,” he said.

Democrats fear I’ll spoil the election for Biden, and Republicans fear I’ll spoil it for Trump. The truth is, they’re both right.”