Independent presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr. announced Friday that he is suspending his campaign and throwing his support to former President Donald Trump. Kennedy addressed the nation from Phoenix to discuss his path forward amid dwindling poll numbers due to government censorship, Democrat lawfare and the media embargo of his campaign.
“While Democracy may still be alive at the grassroots, it has become little more than a slogan for our political institutions, for the media, and for the government, and most sadly of all for me,” he told his audience of supporters. “In the name of saving Democracy, the Democratic party has set itself to dismantling it, lacking confidence in its candidate … the DNC waged continual legal warfare against both President Trump and myself,” Kennedy added, going on to deride the DNC’s “circus” this week in Chicago.
Kennedy pointed out the DNC speakers mentioned Trump 147 times just on the first day, and at the RNC convention Joe Biden was only mentioned twice in four days.
“The DNC and its media organs engineered a surge of popularity for Vice President Harris based upon, well, nothing. No policies, no interviews, no debates—only smoke and mirrors and balloons at a highly produced Chicago circus,” he said, later pointing out that both he and Trump give multiple interviews daily.
“How did the Democratic party choose a candidate who has never done an interview or a debate during the entire election cycle?” he asked. “We know the answers. They did it by weaponizing the government agencies, they did it by abandoning Democracy, they did it by suing the opposition, and by disenfranchising American voters.”
“I promised the American people that I would withdraw from the race if I became a spoiler—someone who would alter the outcome of the election, but had no chance of winning,” he continued. “In my heart, I no longer believe that I have a realistic path to electoral victory in the face of this relentless, systematic censorship and media control so I cannot in good conscience ask my staff and volunteers to keep working their long hours and ask my donors to keep giving when I cannot honestly tell them that I have a real path to the White House.”
Kennedy noted that polling was consistently showing that by staying on the ballot in battleground states, he was taking more votes away from Trump than Harris.
“I would likely hand the election to the Democrats, with whom I disagree on the most existential issues: censorship, war, and chronic disease,” he said.
“Last summer, it looked like no candidate was willing to negotiate a quick end to the Ukraine war, to tackle the chronic disease epidemic, to protect free speech and restore our Constitutional freedoms, to clean corporate influence out of government, or to defy the Neocons and their agenda of endless military adventurism,” said Kennedy.
“One of the two candidates 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.”
“These 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,” Kennedy declared.
He said he met with Trump the day after the assassination attempt and later at Mar-a-lago with his family and was “surprised” to learn that they are aligned on many key issues.
“At those meetings, he suggested that we join forces as a unity party,” Kennedy revealed, adding that they would continue to disagree in public on other issues if they came up, “while working together on existential issues upon which we are in concordance.”
He said the issues upon which he and Trump agree include “ending the forever wars, ending the childhood disease epidemic, securing the border, protecting freedom of speech, unraveling the corporate capture of our regulatory agencies, getting the U.S. intelligence agencies out of the business of propagandizing and censoring and surveilling Americans, and interfering with out elections.”
Kennedy said he also attempted to open up communications with Harris but she declined to meet or even to speak with him.
He said he was not terminating his campaign, but was “simply suspending it,” and that his name will still be on ballots in blue states. Kennedy said he would be taking his name off ballots in red states where polling shows he takes votes from Trump and is a spoiler.
RFK Jr. became teary eyed toward the end of his speech.
My joining the Trump campaign will be a difficult sacrifice for my wife and children, but worthwhile if there is even a small chance of success.
Ultimately the only thing that will save our children and our country is if we choose to love them more than we hate each other. That’s why I launched my campaign to unify this country. My dad and my uncle made such an enduring mark on the character of our nation not so much because of any particular policy, but because they were able to inspire profound love for our country and to fortify our sense of ourselves as a national community held together by shared ideals. They were able to put their love into the intentions and hearts of ordinary Americans, and to unify a national populist movement of all Americans — of Blacks and Whites and Hispanics, urban and rural. They inspired affection, love, high hopes, and a culture of kindness that continue to radiate from their memories.
That is the spirit on which I ran my campaign, and that I intend to bring into the campaign of President Trump. Instead of vitriol and polarization, I will appeal to the values that unite us, the goals we could achieve if only we weren’t at each others’ throats. The most unifying theme for all Americans is that we all love our children. If we all unite around this issue now, we will finally give them protection, the health, and the future that they deserve.
Kennedy joined Trump at his rally in nearby Glendale later Friday.
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