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| Kerry Makes it Official in S.C. |
| (Mount Pleasant-AP) -- Massachusetts
Senator John Kerry has officially declared his candidacy for the
Democratic presidential nomination. Kerry made the announcement in Mount Pleasant, with the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown in the background. Kerry says President Bush's vision doesn't live up to the America that Kerry once defended. The Vietnam War veteran presented himself as the alternative to the Republican Bush. Kerry says he's the Democrat with the credentials to emerge from the crowded field of nine aspirants and seize the party's nomination. (Charleston-AP) -- Massachusetts senator John Kerry is in the Lowcountry this morning to officially kick off his run for the Democratic presidential nomination. Kerry will announce his candidacy at Patriot's Point in Mount Pleasant with the USS Yorktown in the background. At his side will be members of the gunboat crew he commanded in Vietnam's Mekong Delta. Kerry was once considered the Democratic front-runner, but now trails Howard Dean in the first primary scheduled for New Hampshire and is bunched with Dean and Dick Gephardt in the Iowa caucuses. |