Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suspended his independent presidential campaign and endorsed former President Donald Trump at a rally in Arizona on Friday. Trump gave him a dramatic welcome , complete with pyrotechnics and the walk-on song My Hero.

Democrats , who spent more than a year and millions of dollars arguing the presence of the conspiratorial scion of one of the American establishments most prominent families was a direct threat to their electoral hopes, are now insisting the Trump campaigns song wont turn out to be prophetic.

But with Vice President Kamala Harris at the top of the ticket and Kennedys numbers cratering with Democratic-leaning voters, its not clear their efforts wont end up helping Trump in an election likely to come down to a few thousand votes in just a handful of states.

On Monday, Kennedy told right-wing radio host Glenn Beck that his internal polling showed a large majority of his supporters would vote for Trump if he were not in the race. Kennedy dropped out in order to avoid spoiling Trumps bid against Harris, he told Beck.

The likelihood was that my presence in the race would get Vice President Harris elected, Kennedy said.