Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suspended his independent on Friday, telling supporters that he would be endorsing Donald Trump’s presidential bid.
This follows days of speculation that his withdrawal and endorsment of Republican candidate was imminent.
“I no longer believe that I have a realistic path of electoral victory,” Kennedy said at a press conference in Arizona.
There has also been speculation that Kennedy was seeking a Cabinet position with Trump in exchange for an endorsement after it was widely reported by US media outlets that he had been rebuffed by the Harris campaign.
Kennedy, a conspiracy-theory peddling anti-vaxxer, said that free speech, the war in Ukraine, and [an undefined] “war on our children” had prompted him to come out in support of the former and would-be future Republican president Donald Trump, as he challenges Democratic nominee Kamala Harris, the current vice president, for the nation’s top job.
“These,” he said, “are the principal causes that persuaded me to leave the Democratic Party and run as an independent and now to throw my support to President Trump.”
js/rmt (dpa, Reuters)
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