Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Suspends Presidential Campaign

TIME

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suspended his campaign on Friday in what he said is an effort to make sure Democrats don’t win the White House.

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00:00Many months ago, I promised the American people that I would withdraw from the race if I became a spoiler. A spoiler is someone

00:07who will alter the outcome of the election, but has no chance of winning.

00:11In my heart, I no longer believe that I have a realistic path to electoral victory in the face of this relentless

00:19systematic censorship and media control.

00:23So I cannot in good conscience ask my staff and volunteers

00:28to keep working their long hours, or ask my donors to keep giving when I cannot honestly tell them that I have a real path

00:35to the White House.

00:37Furthermore, our polling consistently showed

00:41that by staying on the ballot in the battleground states, I would likely hand the election over to the Democrats

00:49with whom I disagree

00:51on the most existential issues.

00:54Censorship, war, and chronic disease.

00:59I want everyone to know that I am not terminating my campaign.

01:04I am simply suspending it

01:07and not

01:09ending it. I encourage you to vote for me, and

01:14if enough of you do vote for me, and neither of the major party candidates win 270 votes, which is quite possible, in fact,

01:22today our polling shows them tying at 269 to 269, and

01:28I could conceivably still end up in the White House in a contingent election.

01:34But

01:37in about ten battleground states

01:40where my presence would be a spoiler,

01:42I'm going to remove my name, and I've already started that process, and urge voters not to vote for me.

01:48And these are the principal causes that persuaded me to leave the Democratic Party

01:54and run as an independent, and now to throw my support

02:01to President Trump.

02:03The causes were free speech,

02:06a war in Ukraine,

02:08and the war on our children.

02:10It's with a sense of victory

02:13and not defeat that I'm suspending my campaign activities.

02:18Not only did we do the impossible by collecting a million signatures,

02:22we changed the national political conversation forever.

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