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ROOKE: Looks Like Trump Has Plans To Flip The Script On Kamala’s Big Week

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With the countdown to Nov. 5 quickly approaching, both candidates are vying to stay on top of the narrative race.

That’s hard to do for former President Donald Trump this week while Vice President Kamala Harris enjoys wall-to-wall coverage from sympathetic media at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago. Still, Trump reportedly has a plan to end the week with the focus on him, and if it’s true, it’s brilliant.

Reports circulated on Wednesday that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had decided to withdraw from the presidential race and endorse Trump. Shortly after the rumors spread, Kennedy released a statement on his presidential website announcing that he would address the nation in a live-streamed press conference on Friday to discuss “the present historical moment and his path forward.”

PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA - AUGUST 6: Democratic presidential candidate, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and Democratic vice presidential nominee Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz walk out on stage together during a campaign event on August 6, 2024 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Harris ended weeks of speculation about who her running mate would be, selecting the 60 year old midwestern governor over other candidates. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA – AUGUST 6: Democratic presidential candidate, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and Democratic vice presidential nominee Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz walk out on stage together during a campaign event on August 6, 2024 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Harris ended weeks of speculation about who her running mate would be, selecting the 60 year old midwestern governor over other candidates. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Trump and Kennedy will both be in Phoenix, Arizona, on Friday. Nothing would erase the last five days of DNC speeches and momentum more from Americans’ minds than the optics of having a former Democratic presidential candidate currently running the most prominent third-party candidacy in history drop out to endorse a Republican. (Taxpayer-Funded Group Offers $30,000 To New Homebuyers — As Long As They Aren’t US Citizens)

Kennedy has a unique perspective on Democrats, being one his entire life. He initially ran as a primary opponent against President Joe Biden. Still, members from his own party worked against him (Biden even went as far as denying him a Secret Service protection detail) to prevent him from being successful. (ROOKE: Despite The Manufactured Hype, The Kamala Train Is Derailing)

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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – MARCH 30: Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks at a Cesar Chavez Day event at Union Station on March 30, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. The 70-year-old candidate is pushing Latino outreach in a long shot Independent bid in the 2024 presidential race. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

When Kennedy dropped out of the primary race to run for president as an independent, his polling showed he took votes almost equally from Democrats and Republicans. But now, with Biden out and Harris the Democratic nominee, he was siphoning more support from Trump than Harris. Having Kennedy drop out and endorse him would help Trump with the polling and controlling the narrative.

If Kennedy stands on stage with Trump in Arizona on Friday and tells Americans that they should be voting for the man the establishment hates, the one they all claim will end our democracy, it will be a moment too big for even the Harris sycophants in regime media to ignore. They’ll have to cover it. No one will be talking about the DNC. The nation will be focused on Trump and Kennedy. Harris will be an afterthought on the biggest week of her political career.

Every time Trump seems to be knocked down to the point of failure, he stands right back up, yelling, “FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!”

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