RFK Jr.’s polling suggests his support could decisively tip the election in Trump’s favour
RFK Jr.’s stunning endorsement of President Trump could decisively win the election for Trump, according to CNN’s Erin Burnett.
On CNN on Friday night, Burnett considered the potential impact of Kennedy’s endorsement on the election, on the basis of the latest polling information.
“The latest swing state polls show Kennedy with 5 or 6% of the vote,” Burnett said.
“Now you might say, that’s not a big deal. Actually, if that’s the case, it is huge. It is everything.”
CNN’s Erin Burnett reacts to RFK’s endorsement of Trump: “The latest swing state polls show Kennedy with 5 or 6 percent of the vote. Now you might say, that’s not a big deal… Actually, if that’s the case, it is HUGE — it is everything” pic.twitter.com/773wMXdjqG
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RFK Jr.’s decision to drop out of the election race has been nothing short of electrifying.
In a speech delivered on Friday, RFK Jr. said that his decision to join forces with Trump was motivated by their alignment on key issues.
He added that although there are “still issues and approaches upon which we continue to have very serious differences,” he and Trump are “aligned with each other on other key issues, like ending the Forever Wars, ending the childhood disease epidemics, securing the border, protecting freedom of speech, unravelling the corporate capture of our regulatory agencies, getting the US intelligence agency is out of the business of propagandizing and censoring and surveilling Americans, and interfering with our elections.”
RFK Jr. also revealed that he had attempted to speak with Kamala Harris before making his decision, but he was rebuffed.
“Vice president Harris decline to meet or even speak with me,” he said.
Later on Friday, RFK Jr. joined Trump on stage in Arizona, making a spectacular entrance with pyrotechnics, to the strains of the Foo Fighters’ song “My hero.”
As the two men stood on stage together, Trump praised RFK Jr. for his decades of work on environmentalism and health, and said that he would establish a presidential commission into chronic diseases, something he promised to do when RFK Jr. first announced his candidacy in 2023.
“Nobody’s done more” than RFK Jr. to “advocate for the health of our families and children,” Trump said.
“Millions and millions of Americans who want clean air, clean water, and a healthy nation have concerns about toxins in our environment and pesticides in our food. That’s why today I’m repeating my pledge to establish a panel of top experts working with Bobby to investigate what is causing the decades-long increase in chronic health problems and childhood diseases,” he added.
