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Let's say RFK makes it through the night of the California primary without incident and loses the Democratic Convention to Humphrey. What do you think happens to RFK's career? Personally, my sense is that the Senate doesn't interest him all that much. He's not Teddy. So does he leave for law or to teach? Or try another presidential bid?

It's also been said that with RFK alive pressure would mount on the GOP to not nominate Nixon for fear he may lose to another Kennedy (RNC is before DNC so they won't have the advantage of knowing whether or not RFK is for sure the nominee). Could Reagan wrest the nomination in '68? I find it impossible for Rockefeller to get the necessary delegates.

I've looked at other threads on this subject, none that I found focus on RFK losing and all of them are pretty old.
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