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(NewsNation) — Independent statesmanlike campaigner Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is holding an lawsuit Friday successful Phoenix wherever helium volition sermon the aboriginal of his run and, per aggregate reports, perchance endorse Republican nominee Donald Trump.
NewsNation has not confirmed Kennedy's plans.
The Phoenix lawsuit comes a time aft Kennedy filed paperwork successful Arizona to region his sanction from the ballot there.
Earlier this week, Kennedy’s moving mate, Nicole Shanahan, opened the doorway of the autarkic dropping retired of the race erstwhile she mentioned the enactment during a podcast interview.
Shanahan said that alternatively than let the predetermination rhythm to play out, Kennedy could take to driblet retired and “join forces” with Trump. Trump said helium would beryllium unfastened to providing Kennedy with a Cabinet presumption successful the Trump medication should helium triumph a instrumentality to the White House successful November. Kennedy reportedly had besides been seeking a Cabinet presumption from Vice President Kamala Harris.
Multiple media outlets, including NewsNation, reported that Kennedy had reached retired to Harris seeking a gathering astir a imaginable assignment should she beryllium elected. However, nary gathering took place, starring Kennedy to crook his attraction to Trump.
In an interview with CNN this week, Trump referred to Kennedy arsenic a “brilliant guy” and a “smart guy” whom Trump said helium respects.
“I didn’t cognize helium was reasoning astir getting out,” Trump said successful the interview. “But if he’s reasoning astir getting out, certainly, I’d beryllium unfastened to (offering a Cabinet role).”
After the Shanahan interview, Kennedy’s run announced that Kennedy would talk to the federation Friday from Phoenix to code his governmental future.
Friday’s announcement comes 10 months aft Kennedy declared helium would tally for president successful the 2024 contention arsenic an independent. Kennedy had antecedently entered the contention arsenic a Democrat but failed to summation traction against President Joe Biden, who dropped retired of the contention successful July successful favour of Harris.
RFK Jr.'s combat for ballot positioning
Kennedy, who had been a lifelong Democrat earlier shifting to moving for president arsenic an independent, failed to gain a spot in the archetypal statesmanlike statement betwixt Trump and Biden.
Before shifting his enactment affiliation, an Emerson College canvass conducted successful August 2023 recovered that Biden has the backing of 61% of apt Democratic voters, with Kennedy astatine 12% and Marianne Williamson successful 3rd spot with 4%. Undecided voters relationship for 23%.
The lad of Robert F. Kennedy and nephew of John F. Kennedy, Kennedy claimed that CNN and the Democratic and Republican parties had conspired unneurotic to support him from joining Trump and Biden connected the statement stage.
His run sent retired an email to supporters claiming that the 2 statesmanlike candidates feared that his information successful the statement could “catapult” Kennedy into the nationalist spotlight that would make “devastating consequences” for the 2 large governmental parties.
CNN cited Kennedy’s nonaccomplishment to conscionable polling and authorities balloting requirements to enactment successful a statement with Trump and Biden.
Instead, Kennedy hosted what helium called “The Real Debate” connected the societal media level X (formerly Twitter) and answered questions posed to Trump and Biden successful existent time.
He besides joined NewsNation’s postdebate coverage successful which helium answered questions astir the 2024 race. Before the debate, Kennedy wrote connected X that 70% of Americans privation a antithetic prime than Biden oregon Trump, adding, “They’re bushed of voting for the lesser of 2 evils.”
RFK Jr.'s NewsNation municipality hall
Kennedy participated successful a town hallway hosted by NewsNation successful July 2023, erstwhile Kennedy was inactive seeking to gain the Democratic motion and asking voters to take him implicit a sitting president.
“I’m moving due to the fact that I consciousness similar my enactment has mislaid its way,” Kennedy said successful the municipality hall. “The values that my uncle represented and that my begetter represented erstwhile they were Democrats person been neglected. I privation to effort to bring the Democratic Party backmost to those values.”
Kennedy said that those values absorption connected the mediate class, connected labor, connected the well-being of minorities and the environment, arsenic good arsenic connected civilian liberties and escaped speech, which helium said Democrats seemed to person forgotten about.
Where RFK Jr. stands connected the issues
Kennedy, who referred to the Trump-Biden statement arsenic “depressing,” has taken a stance connected respective cardinal issues facing voters.
Among them, Kennedy said termination should stay the prime of a pistillate and that authorities involution connected the contented should not hap until a fetus reaches viability. Kennedy has besides said helium does not enactment late-term abortions but besides said that “every termination is simply a tragedy.”
“My argumentation is much choices, little abortions,” Kennedy said.
On the substance of inflation, Kennedy said helium would enact policies that favour tiny and mean businesses and that interruption up “too large to fail” businesses and monopolies.
On the borderline crisis, Kennedy agreed with Trump, saying Biden’s bid to extremity the operation of the borderline partition and his dismantling of different information measures allowed for wide borderline crossings. Kennedy described seeing hundreds of radical transverse the border, a seemingly “hopeless” concern helium said was “created by the national government, that section radical are being forced to clasp the container on.”
On the substance of Social Security, Kennedy vowed to chopped subject spending successful fractional to enactment wealth into government-subsidized kid attraction and Social Security funding.
