Why I Am Suspending My Campaign for President By Robert F. Kennedy Jr. | 23 Aug 2024 | [The following is a transcript of Kennedy's speech, delivered on August 23, 2024, from Phoenix, Arizona.] Sixteen months ago, in April of 2023, I launched my campaign for President of the United States. I began this journey as a Democrat — the party of my father and my uncle, the party to which I pledged my allegiance long before I was old enough to vote... In the name of saving democracy, the Democratic Party set itself to dismantling it. Lacking confidence that its candidate could win at the voting booth, the DNC waged continual legal warfare against both President Trump and myself. Each time our volunteers turned in those towering boxes of signatures needed to get on the ballot, the DNC dragged us into court state by state attempting to erase their work and to subvert the will of the voters who had signed. It deployed DNC-aligned judges to throw me -- and other candidates -- off the ballot and to throw President Trump in jail. It ran a sham of a primary, rigged to prevent any serious challenge to President [sic] Biden. Then, when a predictably bungled debate performance precipitated the palace coup against President Biden, the same shadowy DNC operatives appointed his successor -- also without an election. They installed a candidate who was so unpopular with voters that she dropped out in 2020 without winning a single delegate.