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Robert F Kennedy Jr has mentioned he’s suspending his impartial run for the US presidency and can again Donald Trump’s marketing campaign.
Mr Kennedy, 70, a Democrat for many of his life and the scion of the highly effective Kennedy dynasty mentioned the ideas that had led him to go away the get together had now compelled him “to throw my help to President Trump”.
He insisted he wouldn’t drop out, and would maintain his identify on the poll within the states the place it won’t have an effect on the race.
Trump thanked Mr Kennedy, saying: “We simply had a really good endorsement from RFK Jr, and I’ll be speaking about that. He’s an amazing man, revered by everyone.”
The determination successfully brings to an finish a marketing campaign fuelled by Mr Kennedy’s anti-vax views, and colored by tales of lifeless bears and mind worms. His polling has slumped from a excessive of double figures as funds and nationwide protection dried up.
Members of the Kennedy household, who had opposed his marketing campaign mentioned the choice to endorse Trump was a “betrayal of the values that our father and our household maintain most expensive. It is a tragic ending to a tragic story”.
Mr Kennedy mentioned that Trump’s insistence he may finish the conflict in Ukraine by negotiating with Russia “alone would justify my help for his marketing campaign”.
“There are nonetheless many points and approaches on which we proceed to have very critical variations. But we’re aligned on different key points.”
He mentioned he would take away his identify from 10 states the place his presence can be a “spoiler” to Trump’s effort.
Mr Kennedy mentioned he had launched his marketing campaign “as a Democrat, the get together of my father, my uncle… the champions of the Constitution” however added he left in October to run as an impartial as a result of “it had grow to be the get together of conflict, censorship, corruption, large pharma, large tech, large cash”.
He blamed the media and his former get together for his determination to droop his marketing campaign, including: “In my coronary heart I now not imagine I’ve a sensible path to victory within the face of systematic censorship”.
In polling earlier than President Joe Biden stepped apart from the race, Mr Kennedy hovered round 14% – 16%, based on the Associated Press. After Kamala Harris turned the nominee, his polling common slipped into the one digits.
Before working to elect Trump, Mr Kennedy mentioned he requested to have related conversations with Ms Harris providing to work along with her marketing campaign.
Democrats shrugged off his announcement. “Donald Trump is not incomes an endorsement that is going to assist construct help, he is inheriting the luggage of a failed fringe candidate. Good riddance,” Democratic National Committee senior adviser Mary Beth Cahill mentioned in a press release.
