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Ahead of a planned speech, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign said in a Pennsylvania court filing Friday that he is endorsing Donald Trump for president.
Kennedy’s independent campaign also requested that he be removed from the Pennsylvania ballot, though it was not immediately clear that he was officially dropping out of the race.
Kennedy had a speech planned in Arizona on Friday to discuss “the present historical moment and his path forward,” according to his campaign. Hours later, Trump will hold a rally in neighboring Glendale. Trump’s campaign has teased that he will be joined by “a special guest,” though neither campaign responded to messages about whether Kennedy would be that guest.
The late-stage development in the presidential race could give the former president a modest boost from Kennedy’s supporters.
A year ago, some would have thought it inconceivable that a member of arguably the most storied family in Democratic politics would work with Trump to keep a Democrat — Vice President Kamala Harris — out of the White House. Even in recent months, Kennedy has accused Trump of betraying his followers, while Trump has criticized Kennedy as “the most radical left candidate in the race.”
The Pennsylvania filing came Friday in a case in which Kennedy was defending his paperwork to get on the ballot in the battleground state against a challenge by two Democratic activists.
The filing said that, “as a result of today’s endorsement of Donald Trump” he was requesting the dismissal of his campaign’s nomination papers so that he would not appear on Pennsylvania’s ballot.
7 comments
Day 32
August 23, 2024 at 3:05 pm
What he is saying right now live is completely true.
SUPER ELVIS [FKA EARL]
August 23, 2024 at 3:35 pm
Good afternoon America,
Dook 4 Brains Leftys are starting to cry Nationwide from Sea to Shining Sea as they know deep in their Dook Brains that the White House just became Out Of Dook Reach.
Thank you America,
SUPER ELVIS [FKA EARL]
PeterH
August 23, 2024 at 3:41 pm
What do Trump and RFK jr have in common?
Answer: both presidential candidates have been soundly rejected by most of their own family members AND by the American voters.
What a winning combination! Brain worms endorses brain dead!
SUPER ELVIS [FKA EARL]
August 23, 2024 at 3:57 pm
Peter H, you are hereby CHASTIZED for failure to show proper respect, feility, and agreement with me, SUPER ELVIS.
Be ashamed Pete,
SUPER ELVIS
Day 32
August 23, 2024 at 4:24 pm
Um fake independent Peter H. Trump did win in 2016. This is going to be a very close election. There will be no mandate
Ocean Joe
August 23, 2024 at 4:40 pm
Would disagree with one part: Trump’s children are all busy grifting off him while he grifts off the country. Ivanka and Jared ran off with $2,000,0000 and a boatload of Chinese patents while the two boys, otherwise unemployable, have both became valued advisers to Trump world. Both probably served as Deans at Trump University.
Day 32
August 23, 2024 at 4:54 pm
And then there is the Biden family. How does one get on the BOD of a Ukrainian energy company and not speak a lick of the language, besides having no experience in that field as well? Aren’t all the Biden’s now millionaires?