Rep. Joe Kennedy III will not be running for president in 2020.
“I’ve got enough on my plate,” Kennedy, D-Mass., told ABC News when asked if he would be joining the already crowded Democratic primary field.
Kennedy delivered the Democrat response to President Trump’s State of the Union address in 2018, and has since been one of several lawmakers who could contend for the Democratic nomination.
“I actually am one of those folks that encourage a big, broad field and that’s because I think we are at a time our country is in a transition, economically, societally, culturally,” Kennedy said.
There are already more than a half dozen Democrats in the race, including Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii and Sens. Kamala Harris of California, Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, and Cory Booker of New Jersey.
Kennedy hasn’t endorsed anyone yet, but said he supported Warren’s decision to apologize to the Cherokee Nation last week.
“I think she was right to issue that apology,” he said. “She has tried to present a full accounting for this.”
