CNN anchor Erin Burnett had a message for naysayers who’re shrugging off former President Trump‘s “huge” endorsement from former unbiased presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Kennedy rocked the political panorama on Friday by asserting he was suspending his marketing campaign and backing the Republican nominee regardless of having been a lifelong Democrat.
“The latest swing state polls show Kennedy with five or six percent of the vote,” Burnett advised viewers Friday night.
“And so, when you think about it overall, and they say ‘Well, that’s not a big deal.’ Actually, if that is the case in swing states, it is huge. It is everything. It is more than the margin between Harris and Trump in some of those same states,” she added.
CNN’s Erin Burnett advised viewers Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s endorsement of former President Trump is “huge” within the swing states. (Screenshot/CNN)
Burnett cited a latest New York Instances/Siena Faculty ballot exhibiting Kennedy with 6% assist in Arizona and Nevada and 5% in Michigan, North Carolina and Pennsylvania.
Kennedy joined Trump at a rally in Glendale, Arizona, the place the previous candidate acquired a hero’s welcome.
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Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump shakes fingers with former unbiased presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. throughout a rally in Glendale, Arizona, U.S., August 23, 2024. (REUTERS/Go Nakamura)
Kennedy, the nephew of President John F. Kennedy and son of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, each of whom have been assassinated, initially launched his presidential bid as a Democrat in a major problem to President Biden. However later he sought an unbiased run after being pushed out by the occasion.
His endorsement of Trump threw a wrench within the information cycle that was beforehand dominated by Vice President Kamala Harris formally accepting the Democratic nomination on the DNC conference in Chicago only one month after Biden withdrew from the race.
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Kennedy’s announcement threw a wrench in what was speculated to be a glowing post-DNC conference information cycle for Vice President Kamala Harris. (REUTERS/Kevin Wurm)
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Throughout his withdrawal speech, Kennedy lit into liberal “media organs” of the Democratic Occasion, accusing them of basically colluding with the occasion to stifle him and create a veneer of recognition for Harris.
“Over the course of more than a year … the DNC-aligned mainstream media networks maintained a near-perfect embargo on interviews with me,” he stated. “During his 10-month presidential campaign in 1992, Ross Perot gave 34 interviews on mainstream networks. In contrast, during the 16 months since I declared, ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, and CNN combined gave only two live interviews [with] me. Those networks instead ran a continuous deluge of hit pieces with inaccurate, often vile pejoratives and defamatory smears. Some of those same networks colluded with the DNC to keep me off the debate stage.”
