RFK Jr. Says He’s Bailing On Swing State Ballots to Inflict Max Damage on Harris: ‘Would Have Harmed President Trump’
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Fox News on Sunday he was withdrawing his name from ballots in key battleground states in order to hurt Vice President Kamala Harris in November.
Kennedy suspended his longshot independent White House bid on Friday and threw his support behind former President Donald Trump while claiming Democrats rigged the primary against him and voters. The announcement came after he petitioned to be removed from ballots in Pennsylvania.
On Fox News Sunday, anchor Shannon Bream asked Kennedy about his support for Trump. The now-former candidate said he will remove his name from ballots on states Harris needs to win to secure 270 electoral votes in November. The exchange went:
BREAM: Have you all negotiated over or talked about a cabinet position, another position within a Trump government in exchange for your endorsement?
KENNEDY: No. There there’s been no commitments. But you know, I met with President Trump, with his family, with his close advisors, and we just made a general commitment that we were going to work together.
BREAM: What about the states where you’re trying to get off of a number of swing state ballots to say, I’m going to stay on a number of state ballots, but in these swing states, I’m going to try to withdraw myself and ask my supporters, or at least you’re telling them, think about supporting President Trump. Did you negotiate over which states you would try to withdraw from?
KENNEDY: Yeah, I mean, we all know which states they were. 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. And, you know, 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. And, and in the in the states where I would have been a spoiler, I’m going to get out. It was about 10 states.
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