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RFK Jr. could drop out of presidential race, endorse Trump this Friday, reports suggest – LifeSite

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(LifeSiteNews) — Unconfirmed reports suggest Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will drop out of the race and endorse Donald Trump this week.

Kennedy press secretary Stefanie Spear announced on social media that he will be making a major announcement on Friday in Phoenix, Arizona on the state of his campaign.

Conservative activist Charlie Kirk also announced on X that his Turning Point USA group will be hosting Trump for an event in Phoenix on the same day. The news prompted speculation that Kennedy will withdraw from the campaign and throw his support behind the former president.

ABC News is claiming that Kennedy will withdraw from the race. InfoWars founder Alex Jones has also said that “sources inside” Kennedy’s campaign have told him he will endorse Trump.

The probability that Kennedy will endorse Trump seems likely given that his running mate, Nicole Shanahan, an attorney and tech executive who was previously married to Google co-founder Sergey Brin, has publicly spoken about the possibility on multiple occasions in recent days.

During an appearance on the Impact Theory podcast Tuesday, Shanahan said their campaign faces two options. One is to stay in the race and “run the risk of a Kamala Harris and Walz presidency because we draw votes from Trump” or “we walk away right now and join forces with Donald Trump.”

Shanahan also appeared on Fox News, where she blamed Democrats for placing hurdles in the way of their bid for the White House.

“I have to say there’s only one party that has obstructed a fair election for us. And, unfortunately, it was the Democratic Party. They’ve done everything they can, including creating PACs, to prevent us from being able to have ballot access,” she said.

One of the PACs Shanahan singled out on her X account is Clear Choice PAC, which she claimed is funded by Democratic mega donors Ron Conway and Reid Hoffman.

Rumors that Kennedy has been considering suspending his campaign have ratcheted up in recent weeks, especially after a video of him speaking with Trump after his assassination attempt was leaked on the internet.

Audio showed Trump talking to Kennedy about the dangers of giving children too many vaccines. He also said he would “love” for Kennedy to “do something” with Trump’s campaign.

Trump also praised Kennedy during an impromptu interview with CNN this week while campaigning in Michigan.

“I would love that endorsement because I’ve always liked him … I respect him a lot,” Trump said. “I probably would (make him part of my administration) if something like that would happen.”

Last week, The Washington Post and The New York Times reported that Kennedy wanted to set up a meeting with Harris to discuss a potential Cabinet role in exchange for his endorsement. Kennedy has denied those claims, saying in an X post that Harris’ team is “riddled with neocon warmongers” and that her Democratic Party is “the Party of Big Tech, Big Pharma and Wall Street.”

Donald Trump Jr. told radio show host Glenn Beck that he “hopes” Kennedy will endorse his father and that he “love(s) the idea of giving him some sort of role in a three-letter agency and letting him blow it up.”

Trump and Kennedy’s on-again, off-again relationship has taken several turns since Kennedy first visited him in Trump Tower after he won the presidency in 2016. Many medical freedom activists hoped Kennedy would play a major role in Trump’s first term given that Kennedy told the press that Trump wanted to have him lead a committee looking into the eafety of childhood vaccines. In April 2024, Trump called Kennedy’s stance on vaccines “fake.”

Kennedy has been endorsed by podcaster Joe Rogan, NFL quarterback Aaron Rodgers, and Catholic actor Rob Schneider, among others. A self-described “pro-choice” Catholic, Kennedy has said that he supports “restrictions on abortion” but only in “the final months of pregnancy.”

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