Independent candidate Robert Kennedy Jr. suspends campaign, endorses Trump

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suspended his independent presidential campaign activities for the forthcoming United States of America elections.

Speaking at a press conference on Friday, Kennedy said he was not terminating his presidential campaign as his name would be on the ballot in many states.

Kennedy asked his supporters to vote for him in the “red and blues” states in case of a “contingent” election.

The independent candidate added that if any of the two major parties did not meet the threshold in the election, he could become the president in the “contingent” election.

He asked his supporters not to vote for him in the “10 battleground states,” where his presence will be a “spoiler”.

“I want everyone to know that I am not terminating my campaign. I am simply suspending it and not ending it,” Kennedy said.

“My name will remain on the ballot in most states. I encourage you to vote for me, and if enough of you do vote for me and neither of the major party candidates win 270 votes, which is quite possible in fact today, our polling shows them tying at 269 to 269.

“I could conceivably still end up in the White House in a contingent election.

“With a sense of victory and not defeat that I’m suspending my campaign activities.

“Three great causes drove me to enter this race in the first place primarily, and these are the principal causes that pressured 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, a war in Ukraine, and war on our children.”

He said the promise of former US President Donald Trump to end the war in Ukraine when he becomes president justifies his support for him.

Kennedy added that he left the Democratic Party because it has become a “party of war, censorship, corruption, big pharma, big tech, and big money”.

Kennedy Jr. is a member of the Kennedy family. His father, Robert F. Kennedy, was the 64th US attorney-general. He is a nephew of John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the US.

Some members of Kennedy’s family have distanced themselves from the decision of RFK Jr., saying their support is for Kamala Harris.