The Kennedys endorse Biden in snub to RFK Jr: President thanks family who've experienced 'so much violence' for their support while Trump wants a 'bloodbath'

President Joe Biden wrapped himself in the history of the Kennedy family wednesday as he received their endorsement, appealing to the family's history of public service in the face of violence and warning against the sort of 'bloodshed' that another Trump presidency would bring.

'He has already promised to be dictator on day one. His own words. And he called for you know, he means it. And he calls for another bloodbath when he loses again. The Kennedy family has endured such violence

Kerry Kennedy delivered her family's endorsement of President Joe Biden on Thursday, describing him as a man who 'runs into flames,' cementing the clan's break with her older brother RFK Jr.

'The best way forward for America is to reelect Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, to four more years,' she said at an event with Biden in Philadelphia.

Kerry Kennedy delivered her family's endorsement of President Joe Biden on Thursday, describing him as a man who 'runs into flames,' cementing the clan's break with her older brother RFK Jr

The audience broke into chants of, 'Four more years.'

Some 19 members of the Kennedy family were in the audience, including Biden's special envoy to Northern Ireland Joe Kennedy III.

The event, at the Martin Luther King Recreation Center, marks Biden's third consecutive day in Pennsylvania, and he will need to perform strongly with Philadelphia's black population if he is win the state.

For his part, Biden paid tribute to the history of the Kennedy family and thanked them for their support.

'I want to thank you for your friendship well beyond the introduction,' he said. 'It's an incredible honor to receive the endorsement of your family. And it means so much to me.'

'President Biden has been a champion for all the rights and freedoms that my father and uncle stood for,' Kerry Kennedy said, sticking the knife in her brother.

'That's why nearly every single grandchild of Joe and Rose Kennedy supports Joe Biden.'

President Joe Biden wrapped himself in the history of the Kennedy family wednesday as he received their endorsement

'The best way forward for America is to reelect Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, to four more years,' Kerry Kennedy said at an event with Biden in Philadelphia

Biden faces off against Republican Donald Trump in a November rematch of the 2020 election.

Both sides worry that Kennedy, running a quixotic campaign based on his history as an anti-vaccine activist, could eat into their vote share.

A recent DailyMail.com/J.L. Partners poll found that Biden was losing more voters from his coalition to the independent than Trump.

The endorsement was not much of a surprise. Several members of the Kennedy clan had already broken with RFK Jr.

Many members of the Kennedy clan joined President Joe Biden at the White House on Sunday for St. Patrick's Day - and splashed the above photo across social media

'I can only imagine how Donald Trump's outrageous lies and behavior would have horrified my father, Robert F. Kennedy,' Kerry Kennedy said.

'Daddy stood for equal justice, human rights, and freedom from want and fear. Just as President Biden does today.'

She cited his work in Ukraine and in gun control, and praised how he had twice traveled to active war zones.

'He is the first sitting president in our history who has traveled to an active war zone, not under U.S. control, not once, but twice to show support for our allies,' she said. 'He was always

running into the flames so we don't have to.'

The Kennedy members are then due to join volunteers knocking doors and making calls for Biden.

RFK Jr said on social media platform X that he had heard some of his family was endorsing Biden.

'I am pleased they are politically active - it's a family tradition,' he said. 'We are divided in our opinions but united in our love for each other.'

President Joe Biden returned to the White House Wednesday with aide Bruce Reed. He flies to Philadelphia for a campaign event where he will be endorsed by the Kennedy family

Since RFK Jr joined the race, first as a Democrat and then as an independent, a number of his family members have come out against his run for the White House.

'The decision of our brother Bobby to run as a third party candidate against Joe Biden is dangerous to our country,' his siblings Rory, Kerry, Joseph P. Kennedy II and Kathleen Kennedy Townsend said in a statement last fall.

Many Kennedy family members have disavowed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for his skepticism about vaccines and talked of conspiracy theories.

More of President Joe Biden's 2020 voters have moved over to independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. than those who supported former President Donald Trump four years ago the March DailyMail.com/J.L. Partners national survey found 

Kennedy, 70, an environmental lawyer, is running as an anti-vaccine activist.

His famous name has helped lift him in the polls. But it has proved a double-edged sword.

He was forced to apologize for a Super Bowl ad that resembled one for his uncle, John F. Kennedy, that ran in 1960.

The 30-second advert, which cost an estimated $7m, featured 'Kennedy, Kennedy, 'Kennedy For Me' which helped JFK beat Richard Nixon.

The split in the family was clear when members of the family, dressed in green, posed for a picture with Biden on the Rose Garden Steps last month. 

'From one proud Irish family to another — it was good to have you all back at the White House,' Biden posted on social media in response to a post with the photograph by Kerry Kennedy, the youngest daughter to the late Senator Bobby Kennedy.