Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suspended his independent run for president on Friday in a press conference announcing his support for former President Donald Trump.
Kennedy will stay on the ballot in a number of reliably blue or red states but has already begun to remove his name from the battlegrounds that will swing the election, including Arizona and Pennsylvania. He noted his disagreement with Trump on some issues but told reporters that, on balance, he supports the former president over Vice President Kamala Harris.
“Three great causes drove me to enter this race in the first place, and 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 said. “The causes were free speech, the war in Ukraine, and the war on our children.”
Kennedy delivered a winding speech from Arizona…
