Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Sets Friday Press Conference to Discuss Future of His Campaign

Posted on by August 21, 2024

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., will hold a press conference in Phoenix, Arizona, on Friday, August 23, to discuss his campaign.  There is some expectation that he will withdraw.  The conference is at 2 p.m. eastern time.

If he does withdraw, he is free to leave his name on state ballots, or he is free to ask the states to remove his name.

Ross Perot withdrew on July 17, 1992, but he did not ask any state to remove his name from the ballot.  In fact he asked them not to remove him.  He re-entered the race on October 1, 1992, and appeared on the ballot in every state.

There have been presidential candidates on the ballot who had never even asked to be on the ballot, but because other persons or parties put them on the ballot, and the candidate did not ask to be removed, the name appeared on the ballot.  Examples are Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus in 1960, General Douglas MacArthur in 1952, Senator Harry Byrd in 1956, and Ron Paul in 2008.

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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Sets Friday Press Conference to Discuss Future of His Campaign — 52 Comments

  2. Most of Kennedy’s voters were 2020 Biden voters. They were desperate to not vote for Biden so they said they would vote for Trump if Kennedy was not in the race. The reason why they chose Kennedy over Trump is because they are very reluctant to switch to Trump. Since Harris took over the ticket, those voters mostly went back to the Democrats. The remaining Kennedy voters are probably people that would most likely vote for Trump if Kennedy dropped out.

    The current hope is that Trump offered Kennedy, an environmentalist lawyer, a job as the head of the Environmental Protection Agency. If so, Kennedy dropping out and endorsing Trump would probably push Trump over the edge if the debate doesn’t do that first. If Democrats are insane and throw Trump in jail over the New York case, the Democrat party is going to be curb stomped in November. Trump has never been convicted before and jailing a first time offender is almost unheard of for such a minor white collar crime like this, especially since they are artificially upgraded. Throwing you political opponent IN JAIL right after a debate that Trump is favored to win is NOT going to be a good look. The 34 felony convictions are also based on 3 POTENTIAL laws that Trump was never tried or convicted of breaking.

    Fingers crossed that Kennedy and Trump came to an agreement.

  4. When are the deadlines for when it’s too late to be taken off the ballot even if he asks to be?

  5. No, it is not safe to assume anything about New York litigation. But if he withdraws his appeal will be dropped.

  6. RFK endorsing Trump would be the ultimate (deserved) F U (karma) to Harris/Democrats because anti-democracy Harris/Democrats (NOT TRUMP) are actively trying to kick him off of like every state ballot. Why would RFK endorse the anti-democratic people/party that are actively trying to kick him off of like every state ballot?

    Also, it seems like Perot actually had a chance of winning in 1992 if he never dropped out. I’m sure he dropped out because he was harassed so much, but it’s interesting that he re-entered the race after that.

  7. Interesting he picked Phoenix Arizona at 2 PM on Friday instead of New York or California ! Want a good guess why ? At 4 PM only 2 hours later Trump has a planned rally only about 5 miles away from where Bobby will speak

  10. What goes around comes around. RFKjr got down in the mud for his buds in the Jackass Party in 2004. That was the President Campaign where John Kerry Surrogate Terry McAuliffe called up Ralph Nader and threatened stating “you stay out of MY 13 states”! Whose 13 states ? RFKjr would going to pen a New York Times OPed Piece excoriating Nader. When you lie with dogs you get up fleas. How does it feel Francis ?

  11. @Observer: Withdrawal deadline, as Winger will confirm, is state-by-state, and is largely driven by the timeline to print paper ballots in states that use optical scans, or advance time before early voting in states that are touchscreen only, for testing of computers. This sets aside that all states have paper ballots for absentee voting by mail, etc.

  17. Funny dropping out on Friday in Arizona and just today Secretary of State confirms he made the Arizona ballot

  20. Progressive Leftist–You are right about Perot. At the very least he would have deadlocked the 1992 race.

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  23. “There is some expectation that he will withdraw.”

    Unlikely. Though not quite as unlikely as him endorsing either Trump or Harris.

    The same clowns saying he will endorse Trump to keep Harris out of office, are also saying he will sell his endorsement to Harris in exchange a cabinet position. Zero credibility.

    Kennedy isn’t that stupid. As a free agent, he might be a useful cabinet appointment to consolidate support after the election. But if he sells out and endorses either Trump or Harris, he will be of no use as a cabinet member for either of them, because he’d already have shown to be unreliable. It would be political and character suicide for him, and he’s smart enough to know it.

  26. Harris rebuffed RFK because she doesn’t want to deal with a corrupt, crazy jerk.

    Trump is receptive to a corrupt, crazy jerk because he’s one, too.

    Trump is open to a quid pro quo deal because bribery and corruption are, like, his whole thing.

    Scum attracts scum, just like Ballot Access News.

  27. Nuña knows plenty about clownery, being the biggest clown car commenter on this site.

    Ready to eat your words Friday? I’ll be here with the plate of crow.

    Your reasons why he won’t drop out are nonsensical, or better, to use a legal-type word: Nugatory.

  28. So can the Natural Law party of Michigan, Alliance Party in South Carolina and the Reform Party in Florida and Mississippi pick new candidates or is it to late?

  29. “So can the Natural Law party of Michigan, Alliance Party in South Carolina and the Reform Party in Florida and Mississippi pick new candidates or is it to late?”

    Interesting question. Can these minor third parties keep a Presidential candidate on the ballot who has withdrawn, contrary to that candidate’s wishes?

  32. He probably whined like a little bitch because people were rightfully calling out his trolling.

  34. @Dungfly

    I’ve never tried crow, though I hear it tastes quite okay. With how little meat is on them, I just never really saw the point. But if you provide a nice, clean, healthy, grain-fed crow bred in captivity, then I am willing to give it a shot.

    In all seriousness though, are YOU ready to eat your nugatory (again congratulations on following my advice to invest in a thesaurus) clown-car antics tomorrow?

    How about we make it interesting:
    -If Kennedy endorses Trump on Friday, I am willing to promise not to post on IPR again for four whole years. Thus allowing you to go on spreading your fascist misinformation and antisemitic conspiracy theories there without getting called out. I never post under any other name, and I’m not about to start, so you don’t need to worry about that.
    -If Kennedy endorses Harris on Friday – which is even more unlikely – I will make the same promise, but regarding BAN instead of IPR.
    -If Kennedy drops out of the race on Friday without endorsing either Trump or Harris, you stop posting under any of your sock puppets on either IPR or BAN – your get to pick which – for four years.
    -If Kennedy does not drop out of the race on Friday, you delete that shit stain you call your blog completely – no backups from which to restore it – and refrain from relaunching for four years.

    Deal? I bet you are too much of a dishonest pussy to put your money where your mouth is, let alone to hold up your end of the deal when you inevitably lose.

  35. Trump just sent the media a message that a very special guest will be at his rally tomorrow in Glendale Arizona. Considering Bobby is speaking two hours before Trump and only 10 miles away can anyone doubt Kennedy is the very special guest ?

  36. My bet is he’ll suspend his campaign and ask supporters to vote for trump where he is not on the ballot.

    I would hope is that if he withdraws or suspends, he will offer his ballot lines to other needy campaigns where that is feasible. I would particularly like to see him appeal the NY ruling and offer his ballot line to Stein.

  37. @Dungfly

    Charles posits an interesting contingency: Kennedy endorsing Trump without dropping out of the race. In that case both terms come into force: I refrain from posting on IPR for four years and you delete your “blog”.

    You obviously need to take me up on my offer before Kennedy’s presser. After all, we can’t have you deciding retroactively, now can we? 😏 I’ll give you until Friday noon EDT (9 AM PDT) to post an unambiguous confirmation in this thread.

  38. What the hell ! After 110,000 people signed petitions to get Bobby on the ballot in Arizona. The ballots were turned in last Friday. On Tuesday Bobby was announced as qualified for the ballot in Arizona by the Arizona Secretary of State. Then this Thursday Bobby advised the Secretary of State to remove his name from the Ballot in Arizona ! All the work the people of Arizona did for him might come back to bite him

  39. BOBBY g,

    There us a good reason that Bobby did what he did. Do not be hard on Bobby.

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  45. Time to start eating your fucking crow, Nuña https://x.com/IsaacDovere/status/1827049068788339153

    Oh, and he may not withdraw by name, but it’s an even bigger clown car to claim that he’ll endorse Trump, but no formal withdrawal means he’s not actually empirically withdrawing.

    Keep getting stupider with your motivated reasoning, loser.

  46. In essence, Brainworm Bobby’s endorsement of Trump is like a campaign “suspending active operations” but not withdrawing when anybody with a brain, rather than Nun of a Brain, knows this means they’re actually withdrawing.

  47. We don’t give a shit $tock. Go clean up the vomit from the elevator you fucking retard.

  49. Shut up troll is $tock, trying to get around the fact Richard Winger banned him from posting.

  51. @Dungfly

    Sorry, what was that? I can’t quite hear you over all that crow in your mouth. I think you are trying to say that when push came to shove you were too insecure in your nugatory clown car antics accept my challenge? And that you know what to move goal posts to somehow try and retroactively change your predictions to be less wildly inaccurate?

    So far all I’ve seen is NTB claiming Kennedy will not drop out of the race but has requested his name to be removed from ten states’ ballots and asked people in those states not to write him in. It doesn’t say whether or not he told them to vote for Trump (or Harris) instead, which would be an endorsement, but then I haven’t had time to watch his statement yet – nor to read anything besides NTB’s article, for that matter, so perhaps he did?

  52. I just watched Kennedy’s press conference @ https://rumble.com/v5c1j2l-kennedy-to-address-the-nation.html

    “My name will remain on the ballot in most states. If you live in a blue state, you can vote for me without harming or helping president Trump or vice-president Harris. In red states the same will apply. I encourage you to vote for me. And if enough of you do vote for me, and neither of the major party candidates win 270 votes, which is quite possible – in fact, today our polling shows them tying at 269-269, then I could conceivably still end up in the White House in a contingent election. But in about ten battleground states, where my presence would be a spoiler, I’m gonna remove my name – and I’ve already started that process – and urge voters not to vote for me.”

    So not only is he not dropping out of the race, he is encouraging voters outside of ten battleground states to vote for him come November. That’s a nice big helping of crow all over your face, dungfly.

    Also, the notion that this House of Representatives would ever elect Kennedy in a contingent election is delusional.

    “Three great causes drove me to enter this race, in the first place, primarily. And these are the principle causes that persuaded me to leave the Democratic Party, and run as an independent, and now to throw my support behind president Trump. The causes were free speech, the war in ‘Ukraine’ and the war on our children.
    […]
    President Trump says that he will re-open negotiations with president Putin and end the war overnight, as soon as he becomes president. This alone would justify my support for his campaign. Last summer it looked like no candidate was willing to negotiate a quick end to the ‘Ukraine’ war, to tackle chronic disease epidemics, to protect free speech: our constitutional freedoms, to clean corporate influence out of our government, or to defy the neocons and their agenda of endless military adventurism. But now one of the two candidates has adopted these issues as his own to the point that he has asked to enlist me in his administration. I’m speaking of course of Donald Trump.
    […]
    I’ve made the heart-wrenching decision to suspend my campaign and to support president Trump.”

    That sounds like an endorsement alright. So it’s my turn to eat crow.

    I knew Kennedy was both dishonest – he’s a politician and a Kennedy, after all – and to some extent stupid – despite all scientific evidence to the contrary, he is mindlessly hysterical about the “anthropogenic climate change” hoax and blindly believes modern “autism” “diagnoses” are no less reliable than they used to be. But I didn’t believe him capable of flamboyantly committing character and career suicide on such a grand scale.

    When has Trump ever demonstrated any interest in tackling Big Pharma rather than propping it up, or in protecting the freedom of speech and other constitutional freedoms of anyone besides himself, or in removing corporate influence from government rather than switching up which corporations get to influence government?

    Not a good look, Bobby, not good at all. This is what I meant by saying it was far too late for Kennedy to “explain to our base why we’re making that decision”. This only makes Kennedy look more like Trump, and therefore also like Harris, i.e. worse.

    He speaks of a Trump appointment. But having sold out to Trump by (partially) endorsing him, he will not be able to keep it. If he “publicly” or “furiously” disagrees with Trump, as he says he will be able to, then he will be kicked out immediately.
    If he doesn’t and is a good little yes-man, then he will be kicked out as soon as his unpopularity with the former supporters he sold out and his unpopularity with Trump’s sycophants jabbed up-the-wazoo, start negatively effecting the Trump administration. Or as soon as Trump needs a scapegoat for something. Or as soon as Trump just grows tired of him. Whichever comes first really.

    “He told me president Trump was anxious to talk to me about chronic disease and other subjects, and to explore avenues of cooperation. He asked if I would take a call from the president. President Trump telephoned me a few minutes later and I met with him the following day. A few weeks later, I met again with president Trump and his family members and close advisers in Florida. In a series of long and tense discussions, I was surprised to discover that we are aligned on many key issues. In those meetings he suggested that we join forces as a unity party. We talked about Abraham Lincoln’s team of rivals. That arrangement would allow us to disagree publicly and privately, and furiously if need be, on issues over which we differ, while working together on the existential issues upon which we are in accordance.
    […]
    Following my first discussion with president Trump, I tried unsuccessfully to open similar discussions with vice-president Harris. Vice-president Harris declined to meet or even to speak with me.”

    So, if Kennedy is to be believed, Trump approached him to discuss cooperating – not vice versa – and he then approached Harris to give her the same opportunity. And Trump’s offer of an appointment was made before any discussion of Kennedy’s partial endorsement, and was not contingent upon it – ergo, no quid pro quo. That’s another “YUGE” portion of crow for dungfly.

    Thank you for letting me sample some of your crow, dungfly, but the lions’ portion is all yours. It’s a shame you didn’t have the balls to take me up on my offer.

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