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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Suspends Presidential Campaign
TIME
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8/23/2024
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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Many months ago, I promised the American people that I would withdraw from the race if I became a spoiler. A spoiler is someone
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who will alter the outcome of the election, but has no chance of winning.
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In my heart, I no longer believe that I have a realistic path to electoral victory in the face of this relentless
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systematic censorship and media control.
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So I cannot in good conscience ask my staff and volunteers
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to keep working their long hours, or ask my donors to keep giving when I cannot honestly tell them that I have a real path
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to the White House.
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Furthermore, our polling consistently showed
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that by staying on the ballot in the battleground states, I would likely hand the election over to the Democrats
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with whom I disagree
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on the most existential issues.
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Censorship, war, and chronic disease.
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I want everyone to know that I am not terminating my campaign.
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I am simply suspending it
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and not
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ending it. I encourage you to vote for me, and
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if enough of you do vote for me, and neither of the major party candidates win 270 votes, which is quite possible, in fact,
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today our polling shows them tying at 269 to 269, and
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I could conceivably still end up in the White House in a contingent election.
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But
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in about ten battleground states
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where my presence would be a spoiler,
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I'm going to remove my name, and I've already started that process, and urge voters not to vote for me.
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And these are the principal causes that persuaded me to leave the Democratic Party
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and run as an independent, and now to throw my support
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to President Trump.
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The causes were free speech,
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a war in Ukraine,
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and the war on our children.
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It's with a sense of victory
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and not defeat that I'm suspending my campaign activities.
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Not only did we do the impossible by collecting a million signatures,
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we changed the national political conversation forever.
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