Robert F. Kennedy Jr. provided new particulars about his conversations with former president Trump in his first interview since dropping out of the race and endorsing him on Sunday.
Kennedy made the assertion throughout an unique interview on “Fox News Sunday” with host Shannon Bream. He argued that his marketing campaign had failed to realize floor as a consequence of “censorship” by the media.
“It became clear to me that I did not have a path to victory,” Kennedy stated. “Sixteen months of censorship, of not being able to get on any network really except for Fox.”
“When Ross Perot ran, in the 10 months that he ran he had 34 appearances on the networks. I had two appearances in 16 months, so I was blocked out of the networks and I was blocked out of the debate. I had no path to victory.”
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He went on to say that Trump had been “reaching out” to his marketing campaign periodically, saying they’d even spoken simply “a few hours” after the assassination try in opposition to Trump in July.
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“He invited me to form a unity government. We agreed that we’d be able to continue to criticize each other on the issues where we don’t agree, but these issues are so important and they’re a way of unifying the country,” Kennedy stated, referencing his high problems with ending the Ukraine battle, stopping censorship and selling kids’s well being.
Kennedy formally introduced his withdrawal from the presidential race late final week. At a press convention in Phoenix, Ariz., Kennedy accused the Democratic Get together of waging “continual legal warfare against both President Trump and myself,” and operating “a sham” Democratic major election that he stated stopping him from having a good shot on the White Home.
Following his announcement, political analysts and information specialists have been debating the impact of Kennedy dropping out of the race on the marketing campaign battle between Trump and Vice President Harris.
CNN host Erin Burnett cited a latest New York Instances/Siena School ballot exhibiting Kennedy with 6% help in Arizona and Nevada and 5% in Michigan, North Carolina and Pennsylvania in a section on Friday.
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Kennedy’s latest alliance with Trump has sparked hypothesis as to his attainable function in a Trump administration, ought to the previous president prevail in November.
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Kennedy, the nephew of President John F. Kennedy and son of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, each of whom had 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 get together.
Kennedy’s endorsement of Trump threw a wrench within the information cycle that was beforehand dominated by Harris, who formally accepted the Democratic nomination on the DNC conference in Chicago only one month after Biden withdrew from the race.
Fox Information’ Jeffrey Clark contributed to this report