This article was updated on August 23 at 1:06 p.m. PT.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. officially endorsed President Donald Trump.
“The three great causes that drove me down to this race in the first place, primarily, these are the principal causes that persuaded me to leave the Democratic Party and run as an independent. Now, to throw my support to President Trump, the causes were free speech, the war in Ukraine, and the war on our children,” Kennedy said.
He added that the “heart-wrenching decision to suspend my campaign and support President Trump” has caused “difficulties” for “my wife and my children and my friends, but I have the certainty that this is what I’ve meant to do.”
He noted that he is not “terminating my campaign. I am simply suspending it and not ending it. My name will remain on the ballot in most states.”
Prior to the announcement, a court filing suggested he planned to endorse Trump.
The Pennsylvania court filing also requests that Kennedy be removed from the state’s ballot.
The move comes as Kennedy withdrew from the presidential race in the state of Arizona.
