Robert F. Kennedy Jr. shook up the 2024 presidential race last week when he not only decided to suspend his campaign but threw his support behind former President Donald Trump. His family was livid that the Democrat-turned-independent would tarnish the family’s name in such a way, but Kennedy said there were three key issues that pushed him away from his former party and toward Trump: free speech, the war in Ukraine, and the war on children. Now, in his first interview since his exit, Kennedy told Tucker Carlson that Trump doesn’t just have his support, but that he’s “going to work to get him elected.”
“I’m working with the campaign,” he added. “We’re working on policy issues together. I’ve been asked to go onto the transition team and to help pick the people who will be running the government, and I’m looking forward to that.”
The irony is that if the Democratic Party had left him alone, Kennedy’s position in the race probably would’ve helped them win given his campaign’s internal polling showed he pulled more votes from Trump than Harris. But Democrats left no stone unturned in trying to “collect dirt” on Kennedy and wage legal warfare trying to keep him off ballots.
“I got calls from, for example, a guy that I met at an AA meeting 40 years ago, and he received a call. Most of my family members received calls, contacts, either text or telephone calls from people who said, 'I'm doing intelligence for the DNC, and we'd like to talk to you about Robert Kennedy,'" he told Carlson.
The environmental lawyer said the Democrats’ strategy was “not smart” because he was helping them. “And if they just let me stay in and they didn't run this campaign against me, they probably would win this election.”
WHOOPSIE: RFK Jr. reveals that if the Democrats hadn't resorted to mafia tactics and just left him alone, “they probably would win this election.”
— The Vigilant Fox 🦊 (@VigilantFox) August 26, 2024
Kennedy's internal polling showed that he took far more votes away from Trump than Harris.
Instead, the DNC hired a woman named Liz… pic.twitter.com/AB0pkuXvO6
UNREAL: RFK Jr. reveals he’s had to spend $10 MILLION and weeks in court just to defend himself against the DNC's mafia tactics.
— The Vigilant Fox 🦊 (@VigilantFox) August 27, 2024
“I've spent most of my time not campaigning, but sitting in court in cases that are trying to get me off the ballot.”
The worst part of it all is… pic.twitter.com/B7n2769tmA