CNN commentator and GOP operative Scott Jennings cautioned former President Donald Trump against openly embracing Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who suspended his independent presidential campaign on Friday and endorsed the Republican nominee.
In a presser announcing the suspension, Kennedy bizarrely insisted he could still become president if Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris tie in the Electoral College. Afterward, Trump thanked Kennedy in a separate press conference.
On CNN’s The Situation Room, Ana Navarro called Kennedy’s move “one of the tackiest things I’ve ever seen in politics.”
Navarro noted that Kennedy had complained that Harris refused to meet with him and that the political scion sold his endorsement to “the highest bidder.” The anti-vax Kennedy is reportedly angling for a position in a second Trump administration, particularly in the Department of Health & Human Services.
“I think a campaign that’s already wrestling with the label of ‘weird’ bringing in a guy who’s had to deny that he ate …