I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief John Bickley.

It's Friday, August 23rd, and this is your Morning Wire afternoon update.

Presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr. has suspended his presidential campaign.

In his announcement, he blamed Democrats for disenfranchising his millions of voters.

He said the Democratic party he grew up with would not be

recognizable to his father and uncles. As you know I left that party in

October because it had departed so dramatically on the core values that I grew up with.

It had become the party of war, censorship, corruption, big pharma, big Pharma, Big Ag, and Big Money.

The DNC and its media organs engineered a surge of popularity

for Vice President Harris based upon, well, nothing. of debates only smoking mirrors and balloons in highly produced Chicago

the circus there in Chicago history of Democratic speakers mentioned Donald Trump 147 times just on the first day.

Who needs a policy when you have Trump to hate?

These are the principle causes that persuaded me

to leave the Democratic Party

and run as an independent.

And now to throw my support at President Trump.

The causes were free speech, a war in Ukraine,

and the war on our children. Trump will hold a rally in Arizona this evening.

Fed Chairman Jerome Powell signaled that a rate cut is coming soon.

Powell was speaking at the annual Jackson Hole Economic Summit.

His remarks, boosted Wall Street's hopes, and the Dow jumped 400 points.

The Fed is expected to lower rates as soon as its next meeting in September.

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