“In my heart, I no longer believe I have a realistic path to electoral victory,” Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. said in a speech in Arizona today. “These are the principled causes that persuaded me to leave the Democratic Party and run as an independent, and now to throw my support to President Trump. The causes were: Free speech, the war in Ukraine, and the war on our children,” he said. “One of the two candidates has adopted these issues as his own to the point where he has asked to enlist me in his administration. I’m speaking, of course, of Donald Trump.”
The Democratic Party worked overtime to keep RFK out of the election. Their attitude was expressed by Democratic National Committee senior adviser Mary Beth Cahill, who said, according to NBC News: “Donald Trump isn’t earning an endorsement that’s going to help build support, he’s inheriting the baggage of a failed fringe candidate. Good riddance.”
Kennedy said about the Trump Presidency: “If President Trump is elected and honors his word, the vast burden of chronic disease that now demoralizes and bankrupts the country will disappear. President Trump has said he wants this to be his legacy,” Kennedy continued. “I’m choosing to believe that this time he will follow through. His son, his biggest donors and his closest friends all support this objective.”
He added that his alliance with Trump “will allow us to disagree publicly and privately,” while still working together on their shared goals.
Trump’s response to the announcement included a strong denunciation of the war party and a pledge to “Stop World War III”:
“Breaking News Alert: RFK JR Endorses Me!
