Trump reacts to possible support for RFK Jr.

Donald Trump welcomed the prospect of an endorsement from Robert F. Kennedy Jr. amid growing speculation that the independent presidential candidate might soon drop out of the race.

During a telephone interview on Fox & Friends On Thursday morning, the former president said: “As you know, he’s a different guy, a very smart guy and a very good person.”

“If he would support me, that would be an honor for me. It would be a great honor for me. He really has his heart in the right place.”

Numerous reports indicate that Kennedy will abandon his presidential bid and endorse Trump on Friday. Both men are scheduled to be in Arizona that day. Kennedy, who has been a Democrat for most of his life, is seeking a deal with Trump, proposing to support the Republican in exchange for a Cabinet post in a possible Trump administration, ABC News reports.

The Kennedy team declined to comment.

Trump told CNN this week that he would be “open” to giving Kennedy a job in his administration if he dropped out of the race and supported him.

To Fox & Friends On Thursday, Trump called Kennedy a “respected” person and said the nephew of former President John F. Kennedy had been undermined by his former party. He compared Kennedy’s problems to the pressure Democrats put on Biden to get him to withdraw his re-election bid. “What they did to him is the same thing they did to Biden,” Trump noted.

“Women love some of his policies, and I guess some don’t like some of his policies,” Trump said.

In a video posted on X (formerly Twitter) on Wednesday, Kennedy said he wanted to “bring unity” to the nation.

“America is lucky that it is not in a civil war right now, but we are in a kind of cold civil war. What is this experiment we call America? Let’s look back and remember who we are and how our greatest leaders – like Abraham Lincoln – behaved in the face of civil war.”

Kennedy’s campaign team announced Wednesday that he would outline “his path forward” in Phoenix on Friday afternoon.

His running mate, Silicon Valley lawyer Nicole Shanahan, discussed in an episode of Effect theory Podcast released on Tuesday.

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