Cheryl Hines, Kennedy Household React After RKF Jr. Suspends Marketing campaign, Helps Trump

The announcement went down on Thursday in Arizona, the place he mentioned, “In my coronary heart, I now not imagine that I’ve a practical path of electoral victory within the face of this relentless, systematic censorship and media management.”

“So I can not, in good conscience, ask my employees and volunteers to maintain working their lengthy hours, or ask my donors to maintain giving once I can not truthfully inform them that I’ve an actual path to the White Home,” he continued, earlier than clarifying, “I’m not terminating my marketing campaign I’m merely suspending it and never ending it. My title will stay on the poll in most states.”

He added he’ll “now throw my help to President Trump.”

Shortly after the announcement, RFK Jr.’s spouse, Curb Your Enthusiasm actress Cheryl Hines, issued her personal assertion on-line.

“The choice has been made to droop my husband’s, Robert Kennedy Jr.’s, presidency and I would like to increase a honest, deeply heartfelt thanks to each one that has labored so tirelessly and lovingly on his marketing campaign,” she shared.

“They’ve completed feats that have been mentioned to be unattainable. They’ve gathered over one million signatures, greater than any candidate in historical past, and have achieved poll entry throughout the nation regardless of the roadblocks and lawsuits which have been introduced in opposition to them for the only real function of holding Bobby off of the ballots so nobody would even have the chance to vote for him,” her assertion continued. “I deeply respect the choice Bobby made to run on the precept of unity. Over the past yr and a half, I’ve met some extraordinary folks from all events — Democrats, Republicans, and Independents. It has been my expertise that the overwhelming majority of all events are really good individuals who need the most effective for our nation and for one another. It has been an eye-opening, transformative, and endearing journey.”

She didn’t tackle her husband’s endorsement of Trump.

Kennedy’s household, nevertheless, did — and, unsurprisingly, made it clear they are not on the identical web page.

“We wish an America stuffed with hop and sure collectively by a shared imaginative and prescient of a brighter future, a future definted by particular person freedom, financial promise and nationwide pleasure,” siblings Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Courtney Kennedy, Kerry Kennedy, Chris Kennedy and Rory Kennedy mentioned in a joint assertion.

“We imagine in Harris and Walz. Our brother Bobby’s determination to endorse Trump right this moment is a betrayal of the values that our father and our household maintain most pricey. It’s a unhappy ending to a tragic story,” they concluded.

Jack Schlossberg — son of Caroline Kennedy, grandson of JFK and cousin to RFK Jr. — additionally made his disappointment clear.

“By no means been much less shocked in my life. Been saying it for over a yr — RFKjr is on the market, works for Trump. Bedfellows and loving it,” he wrote to X. “Kamala Harris is for the folks — the simplest determination of all time simply bought simpler.”