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Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson and today is Saturday August 24th, 2024. This is the

exit. Today RFK Jr. says he's suspending his campaign.

Plus a judge has reduced charges against former officers in the Louisville raid that killed Brianna Taylor.

And we discuss a common landlord practice around 911 calls.

Independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says he will suspend his campaign in the 2024 presidential race and support Republican nominee Donald

Trump.

This decision is agonizing for me because of the difficulties it causes my wife and my children and my friends, but I have the certainty that this is what I've meant to do.

Kennedy's support stood at 4% in an ipso's poll taken this month and his campaign appeared to be running out of money according to Federal Election Commission filings published this week.

At the end of last month, Kennedy's campaign owed close to $3.5 million and had only $3.9 million on hand.

In a virtual address yesterday, Kennedy clarified that he plans to remove his name from

the ballot in about 10 battleground states where his

presence would be a spoiler, a process he has already begun in states including

Arizona and Pennsylvania. For much of the election cycle, Democrats labeled Kennedy as an election spoiler whose candidacy was meant to help Trump by peeling votes away from President Joe Biden.

But after Harris took over as the party's nominee,

polling started showing that Kennedy was doing the opposite,

hurting Trump more than the Democrats.

You can take a closer look at some of the recent polling

with a link in today's show notes.

The federal judge has lessened the charges

against two former Louisville Metro police officers

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