“We talked not about the things that separate us — because we don’t agree on everything — but on the values and the issues that bind us together,” Kennedy explained.
Kennedy also posed several rhetorical questions to the audience: “Don’t you want a president who’s going to get us out of the wars and who’s going to rebuild the middle class in this country? Don’t you want a president who’s going to protect America’s freedoms? And who’s going to protect us against totalitarianism?”
Earlier in the day, during a separate event in Las Vegas, Trump reiterated his commitment to eliminating taxes on tips for service workers, a policy that Democratic nominee Kamala Harris embraced after he announced it.
“In our case, we mean it,” Trump said. “Somebody I know just copied it. You know that’s not going to happen.”
Kennedy’s campaign suspension leaves Trump and Harris as the two major candidates moving forward to the general election in November. While Kennedy has endorsed Trump, he still encouraged his supporters to vote for him in states where his name remains on the ballot.
