Robert F. Kennedy Jr. drops Donald, Pro Bitcoin Candidates Unity

America's most popular libertarian candidate has thrown his political support behind Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election.

His endorsement puts two of the three leading presidential candidates in the same political group who openly support bitcoin.

Why RFK supported Trump

Kennedy said the Trump campaign offered him a position in the Trump administration. He said he received a call from the Trump campaign and later met with the former president and his family days after the assassination attempt on Trump in July.

Kennedy said he was surprised that he and Trump agreed on so many political issues. “The main reasons why I left the Democratic Party and ran as an independent, and now the main reasons why I'm giving my support to Trump: free speech, the war in Ukraine and the war on our children,” he said.

“More than anything, I feel a moral obligation to use this opportunity to save millions of American children,” he said, referring to the new opportunity he has with Trump to tackle the nation's chronic disease epidemic.

Kennedy said the withdrawal was part of his pledge not to be “disruptive” in the election. The campaign's internal polling showed that his turnout could split the vote in ways that would hand Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party — a party he says has no interest in fighting the nation's health crisis.

Modern Democratic Party

That party, he says, is not the Democratic Party that his father or uncle John F. Kennedy knew.

“At that time, the Democrats were the champions of the Constitution, of civil rights,” he said. Resist tyranny, censorship, colonialism, imperialism, and unjust wars… It has become part of war, censorship, big pharma, big technology, big money.

Kennedy said he would only take his name off the ballot in battleground states, while voters in heavily blue states still had a chance to vote for him.

Trump will hold an event in Glendale, Arizona on Friday, where his campaign says a “special guest” will be present.

Following Kennedy's endorsement, Trump's odds of winning the polls remain at 51 percent to Harris' 46 percent. However, the price of Bitcoin rose 5.34% to $63,661 – a reflection of the current influence of Bitcoin in US election politics.

The Biden administration's hostile stance on digital assets has made Trump the preferred election option among crypto leaders. Unlike the Republican Party, the Democratic Party's election platform made zero mention of Bitcoin or crypto.