Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suspends his independent presidential campaign, endorses Trump | 23 Aug 2024 | Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy announced Friday that he suspending his 2024 presidential campaign. "I want everyone to know I am not terminating my campaign," he said during the press conference. "I am simply suspending it, but not ending it." Kennedy will attempt to keep his campaign alive despite removing himself from at least one battleground state, Pennsylvania, and backing the reelection campaign of former GOP President Donald Trump. "Three great causes drove me to enter the race in the first place," he said. "Primarily...these are the principal causes that persuaded me to leave the Democratic Party and run as an independent and now throw my support behind President Trump...these causes were free speech, the war in Ukraine and the war on our children." Prior to his announcement, Kennedy Jr. said in a Pennsylvania court filing that he would be endorsing former President Donald Trump, according to The Associated Press.