Robert F. Kennedy Jr. accidentally reveals who he’s endorsing for president moments before he’s expected to drop OUT of race
A legal proceeding was ahead of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
In Pennsylvania, the independent candidate stated in writing that he intended to support the Republican candidate, former President Donald Trump, according to the Associated Press. He also requested to be removed from the Pennsylvania ballot.
The news broke as reporters awaited the candidate’s speech in Phoenix on Friday. RFK Jr. is expected to withdraw from the race after withdrawing from the Arizona ballots Thursday night.
Trump is scheduled to speak later Friday in nearby Glendale, and his campaign team predicts a “special guest” will join him on stage.
The guest was widely believed to be Kennedy, as Trump had been calling for the independent president’s support for weeks.
Kennedy attacked the Democratic Party in his speech in Phoenix.
“I started this journey as a Democrat, the party of my father, my uncle, the party I pledged my allegiance to long before I was old enough to vote,” he reminded the crowd.
Kennedy then criticized the Democratic Party for “canceling the primaries to cover up the cognitive decline of the sitting president.”
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spoke in Phoenix, Arizona on Friday
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (left) and his wife Cheryl Hines (right) at his independent presidential campaign launch in Philadelphia in October
He later added that Democrats had “held a sham primary that was rigged to prevent a serious challenge to President Trump.”
After Biden “predictably” botched the debate against Trump, “they installed a candidate so unpopular with voters that she withdrew in 2020 without winning a single delegate.”
He criticized Democrats for their criticism of Trump, noting that the Republican candidate was mentioned a whopping 147 times on the first day of the convention in Chicago alone.
“Who needs policies when you can hate Trump?” he asked.
Earlier on Friday, Kennedy’s running mate Nicole Shanahan cast doubt on Trump’s endorsement, telling podcast host Adam Carolla that Trump should apologize for his response to COVID-19.
“The hesitation we have now to work with Trump is because he has not apologized or said publicly that Operation Warp Speed was my fault, was a failure, and that I allowed it to happen,” Shanahan said.
Operation Warp Speed was Trump’s public-private partnership to rapidly develop COVID-19 vaccines.
Trump rightly took credit for Operation Warp Speed, and he and his allies were shocked when the fruits of that labor — Pfizer’s announcement that its vaccine prevented more than 90 percent of infections — did not emerge until after Election Day 2020.
Since then, Trump has distanced himself from the COVID vaccine as skepticism grows among the political right.
Shanahan said Trump should apologize for the COVID lockdowns and for retaining Dr. Anthony Fauci as his top adviser.
“A lot has happened under Donald Trump that should not have happened and cannot happen again,” she told Carolla. “And if we’re going to put our bet on him — and we haven’t, we haven’t confirmed anything — we need absolute certainty.”