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Laura Coates Live

RFK Jr. Embraces Trump, Endorses Him At AZ Rally

Laura Coates Live

CNN

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3.92.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced at a news conference in Phoenix Friday that he is suspending his campaign and endorsing Trump. Kennedy insisted that he was not ending his campaign, but he noted that he will withdraw his name from appearing on ballots in swing states. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:14.0

So Harris and Wall's and Wall's, Trump and Vance, R.F. K. Jr. and wait, nope. If you can't beat him, join him.

0:16.0

As long as get something in return, right?

0:18.0

R.F.K. Jr. is officially out of the presidential race.

0:21.0

He suspended his campaign today. So he's pulling his name from about 10 battleground states and surprise, surprise, he endorsed Donald Trump.

0:31.0

Now how did this happen, you might you might ask well he says he tried to get

0:35.1

Vice President Kamala Harris to talk to him but he says she refused. Trump

0:39.5

though heard him out and in fact floated the potential of a cabinet job for

0:44.4

RFK junior if he wins. A cabinet job for who? Not the same RFK that you said this

0:51.9

about just in May, right?

0:56.0

RFK Jr. is a Democrat plant, a radical left liberal, a big-time taxer he wants to tax you an open-border advocate.

1:05.5

I'd even take Biden over junior because our country would last about a year or two longer

1:11.0

than it would with junior.

1:12.2

He is not a Republican so don't

1:14.1

think you're gonna vote for him and feel good. He's a radical left Democrat.

1:19.9

Okay, so what happened since May, which is when that was to change all of this?

1:26.0

It's not like RFK Jr underwent any sort of transformation since.

1:29.6

Then to the contrary, his polling has actually plummeted down to just about 5% and if anything

1:35.5

his campaign it got a little stranger shall we say once he admitted to dumping a dead

1:40.3

bear in Central Park several years ago I can't make this thing up.

1:45.3

But Trump now sees something in him.

1:47.7

And so he brought him out tonight at his rally in Glendale, Arizona.

1:52.1

RFK's walkout song,

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