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Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suspended his marketing campaign on Friday in what he stated is an effort to verify Democrats don’t win the White House.
“In my coronary heart, I now not imagine I’ve a practical path to electoral victory,” Kennedy stated.
He stated he’ll now help former President Donald Trump primarily based totally on three points: free speech, the warfare in Ukraine, and what he known as “the warfare on our kids.”
Kennedy introduced his resolution in Arizona, the place he filed paperwork to withdraw his title from the poll earlier this week. In his speech, he thanked the marketing campaign’s volunteers and workers and derided the political system and Democratic Party. “Now in an sincere system, I imagine that I’d have received the election,” he stated.
A member of certainly one of America’s most distinguished political dynasties, Kennedy gained notoriety for unusual private tales and his promotion of conspiracy theories, notably round vaccines. He joined the race as a Democrat, aspiring to problem incumbent President Joe Biden, however then dropped out of the Democratic major to launch an unbiased bid. (Biden dropped out of the presidential race himself in July.) Kennedy’s marketing campaign failed to keep up steam—a ballot from CBS earlier this month discovered his recognition lingering at simply 2%.
Kennedy stated he didn’t wish to play spoiler within the tight race between Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, who accepted the Democratic nomination on the party’s conference this week.
“Our polling constantly confirmed by staying on the poll within the battleground states, I’d probably hand the election over to Democrats with whom I disagree on essentially the most existential points— censorship, warfare, and power illness,” he stated.
Kennedy stated he would take away his title from the poll in key battleground states and droop marketing campaign actions, although would stay on the poll in much less aggressive states. “I need everybody to know that I’m not terminating my marketing campaign. I’m merely suspending it, not not ending it,” he stated.
Trump advised CNN on Tuesday that he would think about giving Kennedy a job in his second administration if he dropped out and endorsed him. “I didn’t know he was interested by getting out, but when he is considering getting out, definitely I’d be open to it,” Trump stated.
