Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said a conviction could help Donald Trump’s election prospects.

Kennedy breaks away from his family’s Democratic roots and is running as an independent to face Trump and President Joe Biden, who are presumed to be the Republican presidential candidates. He noted that his team’s internal research shows he would beat either Trump or Biden in a head-to-head contest in the presidential election, but that if he were to drop out of the race, more than half of his supporters would vote for Trump instead. .