Former independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he plans to do swing state rallies with former President Trump, continuing his presence on the campaign trail in an effort to ensure the GOP nominee gets back into the White House.
Kennedy, who suspended his independent White House run late last month, said he would be campaigning in battleground states, particularly those where he might end up staying on the ballot.
“We’re planning a Make America Healthy Again tour where we’re going to visit almost all of those states,” Kennedy said during his Wednesday appearance on NewsNation’s “The Hill.”
“So I will be doing rallies in each of those states over the next 61 days,” he continued. “We want to, if we’re going to accomplish the mission that I set out to accomplish when I got into this campaign — end the censorship, end surveillance, get out of Ukraine war and unravel the war machine and the chronic disease epidemic.”
“The only way to do that is to get President Trump in the White House and me into Washington. So we’re going to pull out all the stops to make sure that happens.”
Kennedy was tapped by Trump, alongside former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (Hawaii), both former Democrats, to be a part of his transition team shortly after they endorsed the ex-president.
After halting his presidential run, Kennedy threw his support behind Trump but stressed during the public announcement in Arizona that his name will remain on the ballot in most states. The environmental lawyer said he would look to remove his presence in swing states to avoid being a spoiler.
A judge in Michigan ruled Tuesday that Kennedy must remain on the presidential ballot there. Wisconsin, another key state, declined to remove his name. North Carolina’s board of elections said it was too late for the candidate to withdraw his name. Kennedy filed a lawsuit to reverse that decision.
The environmental lawyer, who initially launched his White House bid as a Democrat, has ramped up his criticism of Vice President Harris, the Democratic Party nominee, saying she is not “a worthy president” and criticizing her for her lack of media appearances since replacing President Biden at the top of the party’s ticket.
Kennedy said Wednesday that he will likely do rallies with Trump and his other campaign surrogates while spreading some messages he himself campaigned on earlier this year.
“We haven’t worked out the entire schedule, but certainly I’ll probably do rallies with him and with other surrogates where President Trump. We’re hoping, we’re co-planning these rallies that make America healthy again, rallies and … drain the swamp,” Kennedy said.
“And we expect the Trump campaign to show up at the rallies, too,” he added. “So we’re going to — yeah, I will be campaigning side by side with the president and with members of his family and with other members of his campaign.”
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