Breaking: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. drops out of 2024 race and endorses Trump with a shock ploy that could upend the election | 23 Aug 2024 | Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Friday that he was suspending his campaign - with a twist. Kennedy pushed supporters who live in swing states to back Republican nominee Donald Trump, but said his name would remain on the ballots on traditional red or blue states. "I would like everyone to know that I am not terminating my campaign, I am simply suspending it," Kennedy said in Arizona on Friday. Kennedy said he was withdrawing from the race in swing states because "I would likely hand the election over to the Democrats, with whom I disagree on the most existential issues." "I began this journey as a Democrat, the party of my father, my uncle, the party I pledged my allegiance to long before I was old enough to vote," he reminded the crowd. Kennedy then blasted the Democratic Party for "canceling the primary to conceal the cognitive decline of the sitting president." He later added that the Democrats "ran a sham primary that was rigged to prevent any serious challenge to President Trump." Once Biden, he said, "predictably bungled" the debate against Trump, "they installed a candidate who was so unpopular with voters that she dropped out in 2020 without winning a single delegate."