RFK Jr. dropping out of race, will endorse the President

By Grand Rapids Anonymous
wednesday, august 21, 2024 at 8:51:00 p.m. edt

“(zh) update (5:15 p.m. ET): as we speculated earlier, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. indeed plans to end his independent presidential campaign and endorse former [sic] President Donald Trump, nbc news reported, citing two sources familiar with the plans.

“the sources cautioned that talks are ongoing, but there will be clarity by the end of the week. one of the sources said the campaigns are working toward a joint appearance.

“the decision to drop out will end the most prominent third-party candidacy in the 2024 race. Kennedy announced wednesday that he will give a campaign speech addressing ‘his path forward,’ days after his running mate said the campaign faced a choice about staying in the 2024 election or dropping out to back Donald Trump.

“Kennedy’s campaign announced he will hold the event in phoenix on friday. Trump, meanwhile, is also set to host an event on friday night, in Glendale, a phoenix suburb.

“Nicole Shanahan, Kennedy's running mate, said tuesday that the ticket was weighing two options. one was to stay in the race and ‘risk’ a Harris-Walz presidency, as she put it in a podcast interview, while the other option was to drop out of the race and ‘join forces’ with Trump.

“Trump's running mate, sen. JD Vance of ohio, told nbc news in an interview wednesday that ‘there’s been a lot of communication back and forth’ between Kennedy and his campaign.

“‘I haven’t spoken to RFK personally, but I know there’s been a lot of communication back and forth between RFK, between the campaign, between this campaign,’ Vance said. ‘look, our argument to RFK, and I’ll make it right now, because, of course, he hasn’t dropped out yet is, look: if you want a democratic party that protected American workers and stood for strong borders, maybe disagreed with republicans on things like tax policy, that party doesn’t exist anymore.’”

GRA: abc moaned that RFK was more likely to take away votes from Trump than harris, so Don has been working to team up with him.

He needs all the “little edges” he can get.

--GRA


N.S.: What a stupid lie from abc. They know full well that RFK would have hurt Harris, not the President.