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Secret Service Protection, Explained

RFK Jr. says he should be receiving security, but Secret Service protection this early in the election is extremely uncommon.
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Members of the Secret Service wait as President Joe Biden arrives at Peterson Space Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on May 31, 2023. (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. complained last week that he’s been denied Secret Service protection by the Biden administration. “Since the assassination of my father in 1968, candidates for president are provided Secret Service protection. But not me,” Kennedy tweeted. 

But determinations on who receives Secret Service protection isn’t as black-and-white as Kennedy suggests.

Peter Gattuso is a former reporter for The Dispatch.

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