His marketing campaign had signaled over the previous few days {that a} change was coming, as Kennedy set his Phoenix deal with. His operating mate Nicole Shanahan mentioned in an interview earlier that if the pair stayed within the race as independents, they may final enhance Harris’ possibilities.
In alternate for endorsing Trump, Kennedy hoped for a job in a possible Trump administration, an excellent PAC supporting Kennedy informed Reuters on Wednesday. He additionally needed Trump to permit his political motion to proceed in some vogue, which may embrace staying on the poll in some states.
Kennedy painted himself as a political outsider. He informed Reuters in an interview in March that if elected president he wouldn’t limit abortion, would repeal many provisions of Biden’s signature Inflation Discount Act and would search to shut down the southern border to immigrants coming into the US illegally. He additionally supplied staunch assist for Israel.
Trump mega-donor Timothy Mellon, an 82-year-old banking inheritor, has given hundreds of thousands of {dollars} this election cycle in assist of Kennedy, and given US$75 million in assist of Trump, based on Federal Election Fee filings via July 31.
Shanahan has donated over US$15 million to the Kennedy marketing campaign, FEC filings confirmed.
In a video of a telephone name posted on-line final month, Trump urged to Kennedy that the unbiased candidate may do one thing to assist the Trump marketing campaign. Quickly after, each candidates spoke a day aside from one another at a Bitcoin convention in Nashville, making an attempt to court docket votes.
