Alone independent Presidential candidate in the forthcoming United States of America, USA presidential elections, Robert F Kennedy Jr. RFK has withdrawn from the presidential race to join the Republican party candidate, Donald Trump for the White House contest.

RFK made this known at a news conference on Friday.

Shortly after suspending his presidential campaign and endorsing former President Donald Trump in the 2024 election, RFK joined Trump on stage at a rally on Friday in Glendale, Arizona.

During the press conference, Kennedy explained what drove him to enter the race, leave the Democratic Party and “throw my support to President Trump.” Before taking the stage, his campaign filed a court document in Pennsylvania that said Kennedy would endorse Trump.

Kennedy Jr. is the son and nephew to late Senator Robert F Kennedy and President John F Kennedy, who were both assassinated in the 1960s.

RFK said the Democrats waged continual legal warfare against both President Trump and himself, and accused the Democrat Party and its media handlers of preparing and window-dressing a presidential candidate, Kamala Harris whom he said had not granted interview or make unscripted presentations or present herself for a debate to address the America people ahead the elections scheduled to hold in November, 2024.

In separate Facebook posts on Friday with videos publication, Robert F Kennedy Jr. said: “When a US president colludes with, or outright coerces, media companies to censor political speech, it’s an attack on our most sacred right of free expression.

The DNC waged continual legal warfare against both President Trump and myself.

The rumors were true! The rumors weren’t true! To find out what’s really true about my next steps in service to the mission that launched my campaign, in my own words, please watch this video of my press conference today”.

During the press conference, RFK said: “I’ve made the heart-wrenching decision to suspend my campaign and to support President Trump. This decision is agonizing for me because of the difficulties it causes me, and my children and my friends.

Kennedy in an event in Phoenix, Arizona said that the Democratic Party “waged continual legal warfare against both President Trump and myself,” and “ran a sham primary.”

“In an honest system, I believe I would have won the election. I no longer believe that I have a realistic past of electoral victory in the face of this relentless, systematic censorship and media control.”

Local media reported that Kennedy’s campaign is asking swing states to remove his name from the ballot because he does not want to be a “spoiler,” .

He said he will remain on the ballot in states that he considers “red” or “blue”. “If you live in a blue state, you can vote for me without harming or helping President Trump or Vice President Harris,” Kennedy said. “In red states, the same will apply.”

The former Democrat spoke a couple of hours before Trump was scheduled to hold a campaign event in nearby Glendale, Arizona.

The Trump campaign on Thursday had advertised that the former president would be joined by a “special guest,” which further sparked speculation of a Kennedy endorsement of the Republican 2024 presidential nominee.

The withdrawal from the race ends the presidential run by the longtime environmental activist and high-profile vaccine skeptic, who many considered he’s the scion of the nation’s most storied political dynasty.

It would be recalled that the Independent Presidential candidate, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced an independent White House run, at a campaign event on October 9, 2023, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Kennedy launched campaign to be elected for the Democratic presidential nomination in April of last year, but last October, the 70-year-old candidate switched to an independent run for the White House.

Reports indicated that while Kennedy had long identified as a Democrat and repeatedly invoked his late father, Senator Robert F. Kennedy and his uncle, President John F. Kennedy, who were both assassinated in the 1960s, in recent years built relationships with leaders on the right. Kennedy repeatedly invoked his father and uncle Friday in Phoenix, according to Fox news.

Before now, President Biden’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee for months had repeatedly slammed Kennedy as a potential spoiler whose supporters could hand Trump a presidential election victory in November.

According to Kennedy, “Vice President Harris declined to meet or even to speak with me”.

Kennedy described the modern Democratic Party as “the party of war, censorship, corruption, big pharma, big tech, big ag, and big money.”

“The DNC waged continual legal warfare against both President Trump and myself. Each time that our volunteers turned in those towering boxes of signatures needed to get on the ballot, the DNC dragged us into court, state after state, attempting to erase their work and disappear with the will of the voters, which signed those petitions.

“It deployed DNC-aligned judges to throw me and other candidates off the ballot, and to throw President Trump in jail.”

According to his running mate, Nicole Shanahan, the campaign is facing no fewer than nine lawsuits from the Democratic Party. The campaign faces uphill legal climbs with suits in Nevada, North Carolina, Delaware and New Jersey. Trump, Shanahan said, faces 6 legal battles brought on by Democrats at the same time. 

“What the Democrats consider common course to win elections is the kind of ‘normalcy’ that leads to famine, sickness, and civil war. The country is ready for an administration that represents unity,” Shanahan said in a social media post.

Kamala Harris had said that “Trump won’t hold autocrats accountable — because he wants to be an autocrat,” the Vice President stated this on Thursday at the DNC in Chicago.

“Following criticisms of Biden’s “bullseye” commentary after the assassination attempt on former President Trump, which the president admitted he should not have said, he claimed “I’m not the guy that said, ‘I want to be a dictator on day one.’ I’m not the guy that refused to accept the outcome of the election.” Biden was referring to a comment in which Trump joked to Fox News’ Sean Hannity that he would be a “dictator for one day” to close the border and “drill, baby, drill” to rebuild America’s energy leadership. Biden enacted dozens of executive orders during his first days in office on both the border and energy. 

The relationship between Kennedy and Trump started warming earlier this year, and the two spoke last month after the assassination attempt against Trump and met in person the following day. 

“If he endorsed me, I would be honored by it. I would be very honored by it. He really has his heart in the right place,” Trump said on Thursday in an interview on “Fox & Friends.”

And the former president’s running mate, Senator JD Vance of Ohio, said Wednesday in an interview on “Fox & Friends” that he hoped Kennedy “endorses the president, gets on the team, because this is about saving the country”, according to Fox news.

We learnt that RFK last public event put on by his campaign came on July 9, in Freeport, Maine. But even before that, Fox News reported that his poll numbers – which once stood in the teens – had faded.

“The most recent Fox News national poll, conducted August 9-12, indicated Kennedy at 6% support. 

His fundraising was also in a free fall, with campaign finance reports indicating he had just $3.9 million cash on hand as of the start of July, with nearly $3.5 million in debt”, Fox News reported.

DNC Senior Advisor, Mary Beth Cahill while reacting, following Kennedy’s speech, said: “The more voters learned about RFK Jr., the less they liked him. Donald Trump isn’t earning an endorsement that’s going to help build support, he’s inheriting the baggage of a failed fringe candidate. Good riddance”.

Harris-Walz campaign also on Friday released a statement, following Kennedy speech and dropping from the presidential race, saying:

“For any American out there who is tired of Donald Trump and looking for a new way forward, ours is a campaign for you. In order to deliver for working people and those who feel left behind, we need a leader who will fight for you, not just for themselves, and bring us together, not tear us apart. Vice President Harris wants to earn your support,” said Harris-Walz 2024 Campaign Chair, Jen O’Malley Dillon.