Robert F. Kennedy Jr, scion of America’s storied political clan, suspended his long shot presidential bid on Friday and endorsed Donald Trump, injecting a new dose of uncertainty into the White House race.
“I no longer believe that I have a realistic path of electoral victory,” Kennedy, an anti-vaccine activist and conspiracy theorist who was polling in the low single digits, said at a press conference in swing state Arizona.
Kennedy, 70, condemned the selection of Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic standard-bearer without a primary contest and cited a long list of grievances against his former party that he said had led him to now “throw my support to president Trump.”
Kennedy’s independent candidacy featured a number of bizarre stories — including about suffering from a parasitic brain worm and depositing a dead bear cub in Central Park — and drew the opposition of most of his famous …