On Friday, independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. effectively ended his bid for the presidency by suspending his campaign and beginning the process of withdrawing his name from the ballots in several critical swing states.

In his speech, Kennedy, a lifelong Democrat from a famously Democratic family, who initially launched his campaign in the Democratic primary, brutally and at length excoriated the Democratic Party and its selected but not elected nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris, according to CNN.

Kennedy ultimately walked away from the political party he had called home since he was a child, denied its current nominee his support, and instead issued his endorsement of the Republican nominee, former President Donald Trump, whom he later joined on stage at a rally in Arizona.

How terrible is the Democratic Party? Let Kennedy explain

Kennedy began the speech to end his independent campaign by noting his long familial history with the Democratic Party, how he had initially sought that party's nomination, and how that party then worked in a multitude of ways to betray and sabotage his independent efforts, especially the monumental task of achieving ballot access in all 50 states.

"In the name of saving democracy, a Democratic Party set itself to dismantle it," Kennedy said in his address to the nation. "Lacking confidence that its candidate could win a fair election at the voting booth, the DNC waged continual legal warfare against both President Trump and myself."

"Each time that our volunteers turned in those towering boxes of the signatures needed to get on the ballot the DNC dragged us into court, state after state, attempting to erase their work, and to subvert the will of the voters who had signed those petitions," he continued. "It deployed DNC-aligned judges to throw me and other candidates off the ballot and to throw President Trump in jail."

"It ran a sham primary that was rigged to prevent any serious challenge to President Biden. Then, when a predictably awful debate performance precipitated a palace coup against President Biden, the same shadowy DNC operatives appointed his successor, also without an election," Kennedy said. "They installed a candidate who was so unpopular with voters that she dropped out in 2020 without winning a single delegate."

Media censorship and collusion; suspending his campaign; discussions with Trump

Kennedy also devoted a portion of his speech to justifiably holding the Democrat-aligned and highly biased mainstream media accountable, both for its acquiesence to VP Harris' refusal to hold a press conference or unscripted interview as well as for its collusion with the Democratic Party in constantly censoring and smearing him.

"What most alarms me isn’t how the Democratic Party conducts its internal affairs or runs its candidates. What alarms me is the resort to censorship, media control, and weaponization of the federal agencies," he said. "When a U.S. president colludes with, or outright coerces, media companies to censor political speech, it’s an attack on our most sacred right of free expression. And that’s the very right upon which all of our other constitutional rights rest."

Shortly after that, Kennedy revealed that he was suspending but not terminating his campaign and explained how, in order to not spoil the race and risk victory for Harris, he was removing his name from the ballots in 10 crucial battleground states, though he would remain an option for voters in deep blue and red states where the election's outcome is essentially already known.

He also spoke of how, almost immediately after the attempted assassination of former President Trump, a mutual advisor connected the two candidates and how, despite serious disagreements on many things, they agreed to join forces and collaborate on the issues where they found common ground.

Rather damningly, Kennedy noted, "Following my first discussion with President Trump, I tried unsuccessfully to open similar discussions with Vice President Harris. Vice President Harris declined to meet or even to speak with me."

Kennedy to be a part of a second Trump administration

NBC News reported that just a few hours after Kennedy's speech in Phoenix, Arizona to effectively suspend his campaign and endorse former President Trump's re-election bid, he traveled to nearby Glendale and joined Trump at a campaign rally, where he was met with high praise from the Republican nominee and resounding applause and cheers from the crowd of Trump's supporters.

It was noted during that rally that Kennedy would likely be featured in a prospective second Trump administration in potentially a couple of different but important roles, the first being head of a special assassination commission, given the murders of Kennedy's father and uncle, as well as in charge of issues related to food safety and the chronic diseases that plague the American populace.