Vice President Harris’s campaign spokesperson says the campaign isn’t worried about the possibility that independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will drop out and endorse former President Trump, saying their message “isn’t for” him, but rather for voters who are on the fence about a second Trump term.
“I think our message, frankly, isn’t for RFK,” Michael Tyler said Thursday on MSNBC. “It’s for the voters who are looking for a place to go in this campaign.”
Tyler, speaking from the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, touched on the rumors that Kennedy will drop out of the race Friday and endorse Trump.
Kennedy’s long-shot campaign is waning after President Biden dropped out of the race, and Harris has surged in the polls since entering it.
“I think that him dropping out fully cements … that this election is going to be a choice between Vice President Harris, who’s fighting for the American people, [and] Donald Trump, who, as I said earlier, is simply fighting for himself,” Tyler said in comments highlighted by Mediaite.
Nicole Shanahan, Kennedy’s running mate, strongly implied on a podcast earlier this week that the campaign could come to an end and Kennedy would support Trump.
Sources close to the independent candidate told The Hill that Kennedy is inching closer to suspending his presidential bid. He will deliver remarks Friday in Arizona, the same day Trump will also be in the critical battleground state.
The Harris campaign has tried to project confidence. Tyler said that throughout Kennedy’s campaign, he has “been propped up by MAGA donors” and been parroting “MAGA talking points.”
“I don’t think it would be any surprise if he were to drop out and endorse Donald Trump,” he said.
Tyler made a pitch for Harris’s campaign to independent voters.
She is the candidate who is “actually going to fight for more opportunity for them.” She is someone for voters who “want government to get the hell out of the way of their own personal decision,” he said.
“There’s a home for you in Kamala Harris’s campaign,” Tyler said.