Independent Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suspends his presidential campaign and throws his support to Donald Trump

Independent candidate for President of the United States, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., confirmed in a press conference this Friday that he is suspending the campaign for the White House race and has offered his support to Republican candidate Donald Trump.

It was announced by the politician, the son of Democrat Robert F. Kennedy and nephew of former President John F. Kennedy, both of whom were assassinated in the 1960s, who had less than 5% support according to polls.

“I’m not ending my campaign, I’m just suspending it and I’m not ending it. My name will remain on the ballot in most states,” he said at an event, giving an ambiguous message. The politician did not directly ask for votes for Trump, as is usually done when someone withdraws from the race, but said he had given him his support.

Indeed, her sister, Kerry Kennedy, was one of the first to react to the announcement by publishing a family statement on social networks about the independent candidate’s decision and said: “It’s a sad end to a sad story.”

Despite their low representation in the polls, their support for Trump could have some relevance to the final outcome of a close election in which the former president will compete with Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris on November 5.

Kennedy made the announcement in Phoenix, Arizona, a state where Trump is holding a campaign event this Friday afternoon that could be attended by the politician who in his speech sharply criticized the Democratic Party for militarizing his father and his uncle, whom he has referred to on several occasions.

“I left that party in October because it has moved dramatically away from the core values ​​I grew up with and has become the party of war, censorship, corruption, big pharma, big tech, big agriculture, and fortune. They abandoned democracy by canceling the primaries to hide the cognitive decline of the incumbent president,” he added.

In an “honest” system, “with open debates, with fair primaries, with regularly scheduled debates and with a truly independent media, untainted by government propaganda or censorship, and with a system of non-partisan courts and electoral boards, everything would be different” and “he would have won the election,” the politician said.

His run for the presidency began not in the Republican Party but in the Democratic Party. In April last year, he presented himself as an alternative to President Joe Biden and announced his aspirations to become the Democratic candidate, a decision that was not liked by his own family members, who strongly criticized him.

However, in October, he announced that he was leaving the Democratic Party to run for the White House as an independent as an alternative for those who were not happy with traditional politicians. That was all until independents started flirting with the Republicans after Trump’s (2017-2021) assassination attempt in July.

During the Republican National Convention held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin that month, a recording of a phone call between them was leaked, in which Trump requested Kennedy’s endorsement and they discussed the possibility of Kennedy joining a future administration.