Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he believed Donald Trump’s conviction would only help the former president at the ballot box. The independent presidential candidate echoed many of Trump’s Republican allies who criticized the verdict as politically motivated.
He is not a Presidential candidate. He is a person who desperately wants to be described as a Presidential candidate. But actual candidates get a statistically significant portion of the votes cast.
He's being funded by the Republican party & some billionaires to stay in and poach votes from liberals and independents who want to punish Biden, but can't stomach voting for a convicted felon.