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Impartial presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. introduced at a information convention in Phoenix Friday that he’s suspending his presidential marketing campaign.
“In my coronary heart, I now not consider that I’ve a sensible path of electoral victory within the face of this relentless, systematic censorship and media management. So I can’t, in good conscience, ask my employees and volunteers to maintain working their lengthy hours, or ask my donors to maintain giving after I can’t truthfully inform them that I’ve an actual path to the White Home,” he stated.
Kennedy then stated he’ll now “throw my help to President Trump.”
“Three nice causes drove me to enter this race within the first place, primarily, and these are the principal causes that persuaded me to go away the Democratic Celebration and run as an impartial, and now to throw my help to President Trump,” he stated.
His announcement got here shortly after a courtroom submitting in Pennsylvania stated he was withdrawing from a poll entry problem within the state “on account of at the moment’s endorsement” of former President Donald Trump.
“Respondents Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Nicole Shanahan because the We The Folks candidates for President and Vice President of america, on account of at the moment’s endorsement of Donald Trump for the workplace of President of america hereby withdraw their opposition to the Petition of Alexander Reber and Janneken Smucker’s,” the submitting acknowledged.
Paul Rossi, the legal professional who made the submitting, advised CNN that he had “misstated” Kennedy’s plans and that they have been working to right the error in a brand new courtroom submitting.
“We’re submitting an amended discover in Pennsylvania,” Rossi stated.
In an announcement, Kennedy marketing campaign spokesperson Stefanie Spear stated Kennedy has not endorsed Trump.
“Mr. Kennedy has not endorsed President Trump. The submitting was made by an legal professional and never reviewed by the marketing campaign,” Spear stated.
Kennedy marketing campaign adviser Del Bigtree advised CNN stated he wasn’t conscious of the submitting and stated, “I’m stunned to see that.”
Trump can also be holding a rally in Arizona on Friday, the place the marketing campaign has teased the looks of a “particular visitor.”
This story has been up to date with further reporting.