August 24, 2024, 11:37 AM
August 24, 2024, 11:37 AM
Independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr, hThe heir to the most famous political clan in the United States, announced that he is “suspending” his campaign for the presidential elections and asked for votes for Republican Donald Trump in a dozen key states.
“I no longer believe that there is a realistic path to electoral victory”Kennedy said during a speech in Arizona (south), but asked his supporters to vote for him in the rest of the states where he will keep his name on the ballots.
Kennedy, 70, condemned the choice of Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee without going through a primary and cited a long list of grievances against his former party that he said had led him to “support President Trump.”
The candidate also mentioned several strange stories, such as that he suffers from a parasitic worm in his brain and that he dumped a dead bear cub in Central Park in New York.
Sad ending
“Our brother’s decisionBrother Bobby supporting Trump today is a betrayal of the values that our father and our family appreciates it the most,” his sister, Kerry Kennedy, a human rights activist, said in X.
“It’s a sad ending to a sad story,” he added.
Kennedy’s campaign suspension came a day after Harris closed the Democratic convention that inaugurated her with a speech in which she called for leaving behind “the bitterness, cynicism and divisive battles of the past” to embrace “a new path,” 10 weeks before the election.
