After an preliminary look for the previous president in Arizona, Kennedy says he’s going to proceed running to get Trump reelected.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will proceed campaigning for former President Donald Trump, the previous unbiased presidential candidate has introduced, simply days after his first look at a Trump rally.
“I’m going to be campaigning actively,” Kennedy advised Fox Information’ Shannon Bream in an Aug. 25 look on “Fox Information Sunday.”
On Aug. 23, Kennedy introduced that he was once exiting the 2024 presidential race and throwing his toughen in the back of Trump. The similar day, he seemed at a Trump rally in Glendale, Arizona, encouraging his fans to again the forty fifth president.
Kennedy expressed gratitude to his spouse, who he mentioned disagreed along with his determination to again Trump however was once however in the end supportive.
Kennedy additionally posited that he wouldn’t be the primary distinguished ex-Democrat to again the Republican nominee.
“I believe President Trump goes to make a chain of bulletins about different Democrats who’re becoming a member of his marketing campaign,” Kennedy mentioned. “And you realize, I need to make The usa wholesome once more, and so does President Trump. So the ones are targets.”
In each his speech saying his determination to go out the race and his look in Glendale later the similar day, Kennedy defined how and why he got here to the verdict to again Trump.
Kennedy printed that he and Trump have been in conversation for the reason that failed strive at the former president’s lifestyles in mid-July.
In the ones conversations, Kennedy has mentioned in a couple of appearances, he discovered that he and Trump agreed on one of the problems he regarded as maximum essential: rooting out corruption in federal medication and meals legislation businesses, finishing “the grip of neocons on U.S. overseas coverage,” bringing an finish to the Russo–Ukrainian war, and fighting govt censorship.
Right through his look on Fox Information, Kennedy added that Trump had mentioned “he sought after to depart as his legacy wholesome youngsters.”
‘No Commitments’ Made for Cupboard Position
Right through his rally in Glendale, Trump introduced that are meant to he win reelection, he would appoint Kennedy to a panel investigating the upward thrust in youngsters’s persistent well being issues.
Specifically, Trump mentioned he would “determine a panel of most sensible mavens running with Bobby [Kennedy] to analyze what’s inflicting the decades-long building up in persistent well being issues and youth sicknesses, together with autoimmune issues, autism, weight problems, infertility, and lots of extra.”
Kennedy emphasised on Fox Information that no commitments haven’t begun been set in stone.
“Have you ever all negotiated over or talked a few cupboard place, or any other place inside of a Trump govt in alternate on your endorsement?” Bream requested.
“No,” Kennedy replied briefly. “There’s no commitments.”
As an alternative, Kennedy mentioned, “I met with President Trump, along with his circle of relatives, along with his closest advisers, and we simply made a common dedication that we might paintings in combination.”
He mentioned that he and Trump had determined to “shape a harmony govt,” even if he’s stated prior to now that “we don’t agree on the entirety.
“We agreed that we would be able to proceed to criticize each and every different at the problems on which we don’t agree,” Kennedy mentioned.
In spite of a from time to time contentious courting with the previous president since he introduced his candidacy 16 months in the past, Kennedy and Trump have lengthy hinted at their admire for each and every different, with each performing as anti-establishment political outsiders.
Whilst polling does now not but display what affect Kennedy’s departure may have at the race, there are some indications that it would get advantages Trump greater than Vice President Kamala Harris.