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Join NowROUNDUP: RFK Jr. Sells Out, Endorses Trump in Exchange for Job
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Last week, as Democrats joyfully unified behind Vice President Kamala Harris, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ended the will-he-won’t-he saga by announcing he would “suspend” his campaign and pledge his support to Donald Trump. The failed third-party candidate is removing himself from the ballot in some (but not all) battleground states. The endorsement was in exchange for a leading public health role at an agency like the National Institutes of Health or the Department of Health and Human Services, which would be a disaster for our public health.
The news isn’t going over well with many RFK Jr. supporters. Can’t say we’re surprised, considering RFK Jr. spent months bashing Trump—which we highlighted on mobile billboards outside both Trump and RFK Jr.’s Friday events in Arizona:
While RFK Jr. dropping out is an important development in helping Vice President Harris secure the White House, there are other third-party candidates who still pose a risk to her chances.
In Arizona, Cornel West’s team was clocked including fraudulent signatures on his slate of electors. When contacted, one elector claimed she never agreed to be one, and she didn’t even know what an elector was—suggesting a deep level of coordination between the West campaign and Trump’s allies.
West also lost a legal challenge in Pennsylvania last week, with the court deciding he lacked the required affidavits for 14 of his 19 presidential electors and therefore could not be on the presidential ballot come November. However, on Saturday, a Michigan judge overturned a decision blocking West from the state’s ballot. West currently remains on the ballot in Michigan, North Carolina, and Maine.
More happenings from third-party candidates:
- Time: Inside the Last Weeks of RFK Jr.’s Campaign
- Forbes: RFK Jr. Endorses Trump After Calling Him ‘Sociopath’
- The Hill: RFK Jr.’s sister Kerry Kennedy blasts him over ‘inexplicable effort’ to ‘set fire to my father’s memory’
- The Wall Street Journal: RFK Jr.’s Double-Edged Trump Endorsement
- Los Angeles Times: Opinion: Ignore my brother Bobby, Max Kennedy says
- Hollywood Reporter: Cheryl Hines’ Enthusiasm for Donald Trump Could Not Be More Curbed
- The Washington Post: RFK Jr., environmental warrior, backs the ‘drill, baby, drill’ ticket
- The Washington Post: Opinion | RFK Jr.’s worm here: I guess I’m supporting Trump, too
- NBC: RFK Jr. endorses Trump after weeks of back-channel courtship
- CNN: Brownstein: Why RFK Jr.’s endorsement could be a problem for Trump
- MSNBC: ‘A betrayal’: RFK Jr.’s family members decry his endorsement of Trump
- Slate: RFK Jr. Endorsement May Not Help Trump Beat the “Weird” Allegations
- International Business Times: Awkward: RFK Jr. has called the man he just endorsed for president ‘probably a sociopath’ and ‘barely human’
- The Bulwark: RFK Jr. and Trump Belong Together
- CNN: RFK Jr.’s supporters could still alter a tight presidential race. Trump is banking on it
- CBS: RFK Jr. shows up too late to testify in court against Pennsylvania ballot challenge
- The New Republic: RFK Jr.’s Campaign Is Suddenly Very Short on Cash
- The New York Times: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Could Be Blocked From New York’s Ballot, Again
- Wisconsin Examiner: Wisconsin Supreme Court to hear Democratic lawsuit over Green Party ballot access
- MSNBC: Cornel West’s campaign exposing right-wing trickery as it implodes
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