Donald Trump Will Announce More Democratic Supporters—RFK Jr.

In an interview appearance on Fox News Sunday, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that former President Donald Trump will make a “series of announcements about other Democrats who are joining his 2024 campaign.”

On Friday, Kennedy Jr. dropped out of this year’s presidential race as an independent candidate and endorsed Trump, the GOP presidential nominee, instead of Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee. Later that night, Kennedy Jr., a former Democrat, joined Trump on stage at a campaign rally in Glendale, Arizona. When introducing him, Trump called Kennedy Jr. “a man who has been an incredible champion for so many of these values that we all share.”

At the conclusion of his in-studio interview with host Shannon Bream on Sunday, Kennedy Jr. said that he’s “going to be campaigning actively” for the Republican nominee. He continued that “[former] President Trump is going to make a series of announcements about other Democrats who are joining his campaign. I want to America healthy again, and so does [former] President Trump.”

When reached for comment by Newsweek, Trump’s spokesperson Steven Cheung said, “Stay tuned!” regarding Kennedy Jr.’s remarks about new Democratic support on Fox News Sunday.

Newsweek has emailed the Kennedy Jr. and Harris campaigns Sunday afternoon for comment.

Kennedy Jr., son of the late U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy and nephew of the late President John F. Kennedy, initially filed candidacy papers for the Democratic nomination in April, but later switched to running as an independent candidate.

Meanwhile, multiple members of the Kennedy family have denounced his Trump endorsement, with some calling it a “betrayal,” while others have said it left them “disgusted.” Some of his siblings referenced that their father, a human rights lawyer, would be disappointed in Kennedy Jr.’s decision.

In a Sunday Los Angeles Times opinion piece titled, “Ignore my brother Bobby,” Max Kennedy wrote that he was “heartbroken” over the endorsement and believes his late father “would have despised Donald Trump.”

Kennedy Jr.’s comments to Bream, teasing future Democratic support, were met with applause on social media from some supporters of Trump’s Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement.

Charlie Kirk, the founder of conservative nonprofit Turning Point USA, wrote on X, formerly Twitter, “RFK Jr tells Shannon Bream that President Trump is preparing to make a series of announcements that other Democrats are about to join his campaign. The Unity Party to defeat the Democrat oligarchs is underway.”

Nick Sortor, an independent journalist who regularly appears on right-wing news outlets and podcasts, wrote on X, “NEW: RFK Jr. just told Fox News that he will be “actively campaigning” with President Trump, and that other democrats will be coming forward to endorse him This is HUGE! 🔥MAGA is unifying America!”

However, former GOP New Hampshire state Representative Melissa Blasek did not approve of the “unity” as much as her conservative cohorts.

“Just what we need. Another democrat party. Listen I like RFK. But this isn’t how you change the trajectory. This is how you decline at a slightly slower rate,” she wrote on X.

Kennedy Jr. was vocally critical of the Republican nominee until announcing his support for Trump.

During the Fox News Sunday interview, Bream confronted Kennedy Jr. on reports that there were negotiations between him and Trump for a position in his administration if he wins in November in exchange for an endorsement from Kennedy Jr.

Kennedy Jr. denied this arraignment and said, “There’s been no commitments. But I met with [former] President Trump, with his family, with his close advisers, and we just made a general commitment that we were going to work together.”

There were also reports that Kennedy Jr. sought a meeting with Harris to discuss a possible role in her administration if he supported her and she won.

When asked by Bream about those reports, he said: “I reached out to them on the same basis that I reached out to [former] President Trump. And I actually talked to other presidential candidates…about figuring out ways that we could end the polarization and the hatred and the vitriol…”