Robert Kennedy Jr. admitted on Sunday that he ended his longshot bid for the presidency to inflict maximum damage on Vice-President Kamala Harris in November.
“They’re basically 10 swing states where my presence in the race would have helped Vice President Harris and would have harmed President Trump. So I’m going to get off the ballot in other states, and then we’re going to stay on the ballot in 30 states,” Kennedy told Fox News Shannon Bream on Sunday in a clip highlighted by Mediaite.
Kennedy announced Friday that he was ending his independent bid for the presidency and endorsed Trump.
He also said he would remove his name from the ballot in swing states, but will remain on the ballot in states that are solidly Democratic or Republican.
“I’m encouraging people to vote for me in those states, those are states –they’re all red or all blue states where their votes are not going to change the outcome of the race,” Kennedy said on Sunday. “And, and in the states where I would have been a spoiler, I’m going to get out. It was about 10 states.”
The former candidate told Bream that there has been no commitment from Trump’s team yet about a possible cabinet position if he wins in November but added, “we just made a general commitment that we were going to work together.”
Kennedy’s move to end his campaign and throw his support behind Trump earned strong rebuke from five of his siblings.
“We want an America filled with hope and bound together by a shared vision of a brighter future, a future defined by individual freedom, economic promise and national pride. We believe in Harris and Walz,” Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Courtney Kennedy, Kerry Kennedy, Chris Kennedy and Rory Kennedy said in a joint statement.
“Our brother Bobby’s decision to endorse Trump today is a betrayal of the values that our father and our family hold most dear. It is a sad ending to a sad story,” they added.
