Appointment of former congressman and grandson of Robert Kennedy comes amid transatlantic tension over post-Brexit trade
Joe Kennedy will fill a post vacant since Donald Trump’s former White House chief of staff left the role last year.Joe Kennedy will fill a post vacant since Donald Trump’s former White House chief of staff left the role last year.
Kennedy graduated from Stanford University before working with the US Peace Corps in the Dominican Republic. He earned a law degree from Harvard Law School, where he studied under the now-US senator Elizabeth Warren.offer a rebuttal to Trump’s State of the Union addressIn a subsequent TV appearance, he joked that he had “decided to go a little bit light on the ChapStick this morning … which is probably a wise choice”.
Kennedy, who had described the contest as a “fight of our lives”, had pitted himself against a sitting senator who enjoyed the support of the progressive wing of the party but largely failed to articulate a compelling reason for his candidacy other than his political lineage in the state. Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of former president John F Kennedy, is Biden’s ambassador to Australia. Victoria Kennedy, the widow of the late senator Ted Kennedy, is ambassador to Austria.
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