Robert F. Kennedy Jr. blew a chance to be the most successful third-party presidential candidate since Ross Perot but could still be consequential if he swings the battleground states and therefore the election to his preferred candidate.

Kennedy suspended his presidential campaign on Friday and endorsed former President Donald Trump. As with everything involving Kennedy, he made it more complicated than that — he played up that he was “suspending,” not “ending” his long-shot independent bid and urged people to still vote for him in safe red and blue states.

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