Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Won’t Be on Pennsylvania’s List After Trump Endorsement

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will not be on the November presidential ballot in Pennsylvania, a Common Pleas Court judge ruled last week.

The independent presidential candidate announced Friday in Phoenix that he is suspending his campaign and endorsing former President Donald Trump in the race against Vice President Kamala Harris.

Kennedy, a longtime environmental lawyer and anti-vaccine activist, said Friday he would remove himself from the ballot in 10 battleground states but encouraged voters to support him in other states. His lawyers filed paperwork in Pennsylvania before Kennedy took the stage Friday asking to be removed from the ballot.

Commonwealth Court On Friday afternoon, Judge Lori Dumas granted Kennedy’s request.

Both Republicans and Democrats feared that Kennedy would sway the results by taking so many votes from Trump or Harris that the election would be handed to the other side — especially in key battleground states like Pennsylvania.

Kennedy, the son of the tardy Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and nephew of the tardy President John F. Kennedy, said Friday he thinks they are right.

“If I had stayed on the ballot in the states where the outcome was uncertain, I probably would have conceded the election to the Democrats,” Kennedy said.