His marketing campaign had signaled over the previous few days {that a} change was coming, as Kennedy set his Phoenix tackle. His operating mate Nicole Shanahan mentioned in an interview earlier that if the pair stayed within the race as independents, they might final increase Harris’ possibilities.
In alternate for endorsing Trump, Kennedy hoped for a job in a possible Trump administration, an excellent PAC supporting Kennedy instructed Reuters on Wednesday. He additionally needed Trump to permit his political motion to proceed in some trend, which may embody staying on the poll in some states.
Kennedy painted himself as a political outsider. He instructed 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 getting into the US illegally. He additionally supplied staunch assist for Israel.
Trump mega-donor Timothy Mellon, an 82-year-old banking inheritor, has given tens of millions of {dollars} this election cycle in assist of Kennedy, and given US$75 million in assist of Trump, in line with Federal Election Fee filings by way of 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 instructed to Kennedy that the unbiased candidate may do one thing to assist the Trump marketing campaign. Quickly after, each candidates spoke a day other than one another at a Bitcoin convention in Nashville, making an attempt to court docket votes.
