[pepsionice]

In most cases, unless the President deems the necessity, you don’t get SS protection until after the convention.

Lets admit it....if this were a big deal...with seven Republicans in the running, you’d have to have at least fifty SS folks protecting them.

Based on the way that state primaries are being arranged....I just don’t see RFK winning more than five or six (max). I’d say 20-percent of Democrats aren’t even aware that he’s running.

[PghBaldy]

“Obama, nearly nine months before voting begins in the Democratic primaries for president, is the earliest the Secret Service has ever issued a security detail to a candidate. A spokesman for the Secret Service, Eric Zahren, said the agency was not aware of any specific threat against Mr. Obama. May 4, 2007”

https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/04/us/politics/04obama.html#:~:text=Obama%2C%20nearly%20nine%20months%20before,Obama.

(Ed: Supposedly because of so many threats, but later govt. said he had no more threats than other candidates...)