Robert F. Kennedy Jr suspends campaign and endorses Donald Trump

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. confirmed at a press conference on Friday that he is suspending his campaign for the White House and offered his support to Republican candidate Donald Trump.

This was announced by the politician, son of Robert F. Kennedy and nephew of former President John F. Kennedy, both assassinated in the 1960s, and who, according to polls, had less than 5% support.

“I’m not ending my campaign, I’m just suspending it and not ending it. My name is will remain on the ballot in most states“, he said at an event where he offered an unclear message.

Although he had not asked for a direct vote for Trump before finishing his statements, as is usually done when someone retires, he did say that he gave him his support.

“Three major causes led me to enter this race in the first place, and these are the main causes that persuaded me to leave the Democratic Party and run as an independent, and now to give my support to President Trump,” he said.

Despite his low representativeness in the polls, his support for Trump could have some bearing on the final outcome of a closely contested election in which the former president will compete on November 5 against current vice president and Democratic candidate Kamala Harris.

Kennedy Jr. made the announcement in Phoenix, Arizona, the state where Trump is holding a campaign event on Friday afternoon, which could be attended by the politician, who in his speech today made a fierce criticism of the Democratic Party in which his father and uncle served, whom he mentioned on numerous occasions.

“I left that party in October because it has so dramatically departed from the core values ​​I grew up with and has become the party of war, censorship, corruption, Big Pharma, Big Tech, Big Farming and Big Fortune. They abandoned democracy by cancelling the primaries to hide the sitting president’s cognitive decline,” he said.

In an “honest” system, With “open debates, fair primaries, regularly scheduled debates, and a truly independent media, untainted by government propaganda and censorship, and a system of nonpartisan courts and electoral boards, everything would be different.” and “would have won the elections,” the politician noted.

His presidential campaign did not begin in the Republican Party, but in the Democratic Party. In April of last year, he presented himself as an alternative to President Joe Biden and announced his aspirations to be the Democratic candidate, a decision that did not sit well with members of his own family, who harshly criticized him.

In October, however, he announced that he was leaving the Party to run for the White House as an independent, as an alternative for those who were unhappy with traditional politicians, he said at the time.

All this until she began flirting with the Republican following the assassination attempt on Trump (2017-2021) in July.

During the Republican National Convention that month in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a recording of a phone call between the two was leaked, in which Trump requested Kennedy’s support and discussed the possibility of Kennedy joining a future administration.

In an interview this week, Trump said he would be “honoured” to receive Kennedy Jr’s endorsement, describing him as “a very smart guy, a very good person”.