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 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 reasons led me to enter this race in the first place, and these are the main reasons that persuaded me to leave the Democratic Party and run as an independent, and now to give my support to President Trump,” he said.
Decisive factor?
Despite his low representation in the polls, his support for Trump could have some relevance in the final result of a closely contested election in which the former president will compete on November 5 against the 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 money. They abandoned democracy by cancelling the primaries to hide the cognitive decline of the sitting president,” he said.
In an “honest” system, with “open debates, fair primaries, regularly scheduled debates and truly independent media, untainted by government propaganda and censorship, and with a system of non-partisan courts and electoral boards, everything would be different” and “I would have won the elections,” the politician said.
Trump thanks the support
“I want to thank Bobby. It was a very nice thing he did and it was really important. He’s a great guy, respected by everyone,” Trump said at a campaign event in Las Vegas, Nevada, in reaction to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s announcement.
The former president, who is holding another campaign rally in neighboring Arizona tonight, said he would speak more about the endorsement from Kennedy Jr., who had run as an independent candidate, at that event.
“I’m going to talk about that. We’re leaving right after this. We’re going to go to Arizona. We’ll talk about that and a lot of other things as well,” Trump said.
Washington / EFE
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2024-08-26 06:12:11
