CNN anchor calls RFK Jr. endorsing Trump 'huge' based on swing state polls: 'It is everything'

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CNN anchor Erin Burnett had a message for naysayers who are shrugging off former President Trump's "huge" endorsement from former independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Kennedy rocked the political landscape on Friday by announcing he was suspending his campaign and backing the Republican nominee despite having been a lifelong Democrat.

"The latest swing state polls show Kennedy with five or six percent of the vote," Burnett told viewers Friday evening.

"And so, when you think about it overall, and they say 'Well, that's not a big deal.' Actually, if that is the case in swing states, it is huge. It is everything. It is more than the margin between Harris and Trump in some of those same states," she added.

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Burnett cited a recent New York Times/Siena College poll showing Kennedy with 6% support in Arizona and Nevada and 5% in Michigan, North Carolina and Pennsylvania.

Kennedy joined Trump at a rally in Glendale, Arizona, where the former candidate received a hero's welcome.

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Kennedy, the nephew of President John F. Kennedy and son of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, both of whom were assassinated, initially launched his presidential bid as a