Why would he get secret service protection during the early primary season? What’s the precedent?
Meanwhile, SS protection for presidential candidates was initiated in response to RFKJ’s father’s assassination.
I guess it’s more the click bait headline and lackluster article.
You made me do some research, I did not know when the SS kicks in.
The general statement is a group made up of the uniparty directs who to provide service for 120 days before a general election. However, I do see big Mike’s husband got it a year early in 2007 due to a threat.
“Why would he get secret service protection during the early primary season? What’s the precedent?”
Decades of the secret service doing this.
“Why would he get secret service protection during the early primary season? What’s the precedent?”
Obama.
Obama got secret service protection in May 2007 - 18 months before the 2008 election.
If anything, RFK is even a bigger target for some lone gunman because of family history; plus whatever other bad actors that are thought to be around.
May 2007 - Secret Service Guards Obama, Taking Unusually Early Step
https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/04/us/politics/04obama.html
Since his father’s assassination in June of 1968 its been SOP for the Secret Service to protest POTUS candidates in the primary season.