Former Independent presidential contender Robert F. Kennedy Jr. revealed what his next plans are after dropping out of the race and endorsing former President Donald Trump during an interview with Fox News anchor Shannon Bream. “I’m going to be campaigning actively. I think President Trump is going to make a series of announcements about other Democrats who are joining his campaign, and you know, I want to make America healthy again, and so does President Trump. So those are objectives.”
Kennedy then discussed why he left the race and decided to back Trump. “It became clear to me that I did not have a path to victory. Sixteen months of censorship, of not being able to get on any network really except for FOX, and I had — in fact, when — when Ross Perot ran in the 10 months that he ran, he had 34 appearances on the networks. I had two appearances in months. I was blocked out the networks. I was blocked out from the debate. I had no path to victory.”
Continuing, he said: “President Trump had been reaching out to me and I talked to him a few hours after the assassination attempt and we had a long conversation by phone. I then had two extensive meetings and there were issues — the broad issues that were most important to me the ones that brought me into the campaign which was ending the Ukraine war, ending the censorship and protecting children’s health. We’re all into reforming our food supply, all the things that we need to do to make our children healthy again.”
RFK Jr. added: “Those are all things that President Trump also wanted to work on, and he invited me to form a unity government. We agreed that we’d be able to continue to criticize each other on issues on which we don’t agree. But these issues are so important and their way of unifying our country. We need in this country to reach a point where we love our children more than we hate each other.”
The Trump campaign is anticipating a significant boost from Kennedy’s endorsement in swing states, according to internal polling data. In a “confidential” memo circulated by Trump advisor Chris LaCivita, the campaign highlighted gains for former President Trump across key swing states, including Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. “This is good news for President Trump and his campaign—plain and simple,” LaCivita remarked.
Data from Trump pollster Tony Fabrizio revealed that the endorsement of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had a significant impact on Trump’s support. In Nevada, 66 percent of Kennedy voters indicated they would back Trump following the endorsement. This trend continued in North Carolina, where 58 percent of Kennedy supporters said they planned to vote for Trump, and 53 percent expressed the same intention in Arizona.
Trump is seeing his largest net gains among Kennedy voters in Nevada (50%), Wisconsin (30%), and Arizona (25%). In other key swing states, such as Pennsylvania and Georgia, Trump is gaining a net 13% among Kennedy supporters. The margin is smallest in Michigan, where Trump’s net gain is just 2%. “To put these numbers into perspective, the net vote gained in states like Arizona based on just a 2020 turnout model would be over 41,000 votes — nearly 4 times Biden’s winning margin or in Georgia the net gain would be over 19,000 votes nearly twice Biden’s margin,” the memo says.
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