Good evening former President Trump is in the key swing state of Arizona

at this hour receiving a potentially crucial endorsement and trying to take

back the spotlight from Democrats who are riding a wave of enthusiasm after their four-day national convention.

The former president's newest supporter is Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

The namesake of one of America's best-known Democratic icons who today suspended

his independent presidential bid and did what no one in

his famous family has ever done embraced a Republican nominee for president.

Tonight's joint appearance comes hours after Kennedy announced his decision to suspend his

campaign and throw his support behind Trump. Kennedy, once an environmental

lawyer who was primarily known for conspiracy theories about vaccines and

more recently for his rather

bizarre revelation than 2014 he left a dead bear in New York Central Park has at

times alleged plots more familiar to the former president and his backers

including the unfounded charge of

there having been a coup against President Biden and how the, quote, DNC aligned judges

tried to, quote, throw President Trump in jail, in quote.

Now, it's unclear what a fact Kennedy's announcement

will have on an already turbulent race,

in part because according to Kennedy,

he's not completely abandoning his campaign.

I want everyone to know that I am not terminating my campaign.

I am simply suspending it and not ending it.

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