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3 things to know about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s decision to suspend his campaign

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2024

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Friday that he is suspending his campaign and that he wants to help former President Donald Trump win the election. Lisa Desjardins joins Geoff Bennett to discuss the announcement and what's next. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

And Lisa joins us now. So let's start with this decision by Robert F. Kennedy

0:04.7

Jr. to exit the race. What more do we know about his reasoning?

0:07.7

Kennedy spoke for about 50 minutes today. He spent a lot of that time talking

0:11.3

about Americans health and reeling against the agriculture industry,

0:14.9

pharmaceutical industry in this country.

0:17.0

But three main points politically I want to make.

0:19.1

He said he's suspending his campaign.

0:20.9

He feels like he was censored by the media that we did interview on this

0:23.4

program.

0:24.4

Second, he said that he's taking his name off the ballot, not everywhere, but only in 10 battleground

0:29.1

states, and he said he's doing this to help Donald Trump, who he said, told him he will try to find a job in his administration.

0:37.5

Now, Kennedy also said that he and Trump spoke right after the assassination attempt last month for hours.

0:45.1

That's when Kennedy said he had a change of heart about Trump.

0:47.6

They met.

0:48.6

He said he found they had more in common than he believed after several sessions.

0:52.3

Kennedy said he reached out to the Harris campaign and was not,

0:55.2

was refused the ability to meet with her.

0:56.8

I asked the Harris campaign about that and they have not commented.

1:00.0

So what does this mean for the race?

1:01.8

How does it fundamentally change the contours of this election if at all?

1:05.8

This is where we have to bring out some polling and we always remind people polling is great at trends.

1:09.4

This is not we're not saying these are absolute numbers, but this does tell us something about what's happening with Kennedy and what his change of heart here may mean so let's

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