RFK Jr. is planning to drop out of the 2024 presidential race and endorse Trump [ Vaughn Hillyard, Dasha Burns, Katherine Koretski and Alec Hernández | Aug. 21, 2024 | NBC News] (www.nbcnews.com)

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JD Vance, Trump's running mate, told NBC News in an interview that "there's been a lot of communication back and forth" between the two campaigns.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. intends to end his independent presidential campaign and endorse former President Donald Trump, according to two sources familiar with the plans.

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[-] BillDaCatt@lemmy.world 31 points 2 months ago

RFK's campaign was never about any kind of message or policy issue or even actually trying to win.

His goal in all of this was to exploit his family name to try to bleed off some of the votes from Biden to help Trump win. Now that Biden has dropped out and Harris has taken his place, Trump is getting worried that RFK might actually get more Trump votes than Harris votes. That's okay, I was never going to vote for either RFK or Trump.

[-] Cephalotrocity@biglemmowski.win 13 points 2 months ago

Now if only all the third party progressive candidates were as smart as a dude with brain worms.

[+] jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.world -45 points 2 months ago

For some, genocide is a deal-breaker.

Jill Stein and others will continue to fight for long terms goals of breaking the duopoly.

[-] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago

Are you suggesting Trump would support the genocide any less?

[+] jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.world -26 points 2 months ago

The duopoly supports genocide; Trump is a part of the duopoly.

Jill Stein does not support the genocide; she is openly anti-genocide.

[-] toastynugs@sh.itjust.works 29 points 2 months ago

Jill Stein is a spoiler candidate. I supported her in 2016 and regretted it. The green party only exists to siphon votes from dems. They have no down ballot candidates. Basically they exist because of GOP and Russia support.

[-] Kabloink@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Whatever happened to the millions of dollars Jill Stein collected in 2016 to investigate and challenge the election?

[-] toothpaste_sandwich@feddit.nl 1 points 2 months ago

What is Harris' stance on Palestine, anyway? Has she said much about it?

[-] iN8sWoRLd@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

Weirdo to join Weird party. News at 11.

[-] DMBFFF@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Now it's just Oliver, Stein, and West.

(and what will RFK Jr do when Harris wins?)

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