Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Friday that he will remove his name from the ballot in 10 swing states as he puts his independent presidential campaign on hold and supports former President Donald Trump.

Kennedy’s campaign this week called for his name to be removed from ballots in Arizona and Pennsylvania. At his press conference, Kennedy encouraged voters who do not live in battleground states to vote for him anyway.

North Carolina is considered a swing state; polls show a neck-and-neck race between Vice President Kamala Harris and Trump.

Kennedy is running in North Carolina as a candidate of the new We the People Party.

Ryan Rabah, vice chairman of Kennedy’s We the People North Carolina party and one of her attorneys, said Friday before Kennedy’s press conference that he had no knowledge of Kennedy’s plans to remain on the ballot here.

In an email, Board of Elections spokesman Pat Gannon said the office had not heard from We the People about its presidential candidate. As of Friday afternoon, about 30 of the state’s 100 counties had already begun printing ballots, Gannon wrote.

“Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been nominated by the We The People Party as that party’s candidate for President and is scheduled to appear on the ballot. That party has not informed the State Board of any plans to change its nomination,” Gannon wrote.

“If We The People officially withdraws its nomination, the State Council would have to consider whether it is practicable to remove its name from the ballots and then reprint the ballots.”

Kennedy founded We the People in his fight to gain ballot certification in North Carolina and several other states. The move was controversial. North Carolina Democrats sued the state’s Board of Elections over the decision to allow We the People to be registered as a new party, arguing that it was merely a means of getting Kennedy, who was actually an independent candidate, onto the ballot.

It is easier to form a new party in the state than to give an independent candidate access to the elections nationwide.

Just last week, a Wake County judge rejected Democrats’ attempt to disqualify Kennedy from the election.

Kennedy said during his press conference on Friday that he did not want to be a spoilsport and would ensure Harris’s victory if he remained on the ballot in the swing states.

On Friday afternoon, Kennedy’s sister called the Trump endorsement a “betrayal of the values ​​that our father and our family hold dear.” Kerry Kennedy said in a statement on Platform X that the family supports a better vision full of hope. “We believe in Harris and Walz.”

It is unclear what impact Kennedy’s decision will have on the race. Recent national polls showed Kennedy losing ground and his support has dropped to single digits.

So far, 73 voters from North Carolina have registered as members of the We The People party.

Kennedy’s campaign did not go well. He did not make it onto the ballot in all 50 states and he ran out of money. His campaign’s most recent financial report shows cash on hand of about $4 million and debts and loans of about $3.5 million.