The official announcement is expected later today, but the paperwork is already in—at least in Arizona. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is quitting the U.S. presidential race.
Kennedy, his vice-presidential running mate, Nicole Shanahan, and 11 of his presidential electors issued a voluntary withdrawal, Arizona's Fontes said in a post on X.
The Kennedy campaign did not respond to a request for comment. Kennedy, 70, the son of the late Democratic politician and US attorney general Robert F Kennedy and nephew of the late President John F Kennedy, started his presidential campaign as a Democrat, challenging President Joe Biden for the nomination.
If his family and professional credentials briefly animated some excitement among Dems disillusioned by Joe Biden, Kennedy's conspiracy-mongering and weird behavior soon drew more support away from Trump—who he is now expected to endorse in any case.
A Super Pac supporting Kennedy told Reuters on Wednesday that Kennedy wanted a deal with Donald Trump in which he endorsed his Republican rival in exchange for a job in a potential Trump administration.
