Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to 'address the nation' about dropping out of the 2024 election in same city as another presidential candidate

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will 'address the nation' Friday about his path forward in the 2024 race. 

Kennedy will speak in Phoenix, Arizona - one day after the Democratic National Convention wraps up in Chicago.

Also in Phoenix that day - former President Donald Trump, who Kennedy's running mate, Nicole Shanahan, said the independent is thinking about endorsing. 

Trump has been courting a Kennedy endorsement for weeks and the two spoke by phone in the aftermath of the assassination attempt on the ex-president. 

On the flip side, the Democrats have scorned Kennedy, who had previously been one of their own. 

When Kennedy tried to touch base with Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign - attempting to barter a Cabinet gig for an endorsement and a pledge to drop out of the race - a DNC spokesperson publicly said no thanks.

'No one has any intention of negotiating with a MAGA-funded fringe candidate who has sought out a job with Donald Trump in exchange for an endorsement,' Democratic National Committee spokesperson Matt Corridoni told DailyMail.com. 

Shanahan appeared on an episode of Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory Tuesday and said she and RFK Jr. have two options - they could stay in the race and hope to get 5 percent of the vote to officially start a new political party.

'But we run the risk of a Kamala Harris and Walz presidency,' the former Democrat said. 'Because we draw votes from Trump or we draw somehow more votes from Trump.'

'Or we walk away right now and join forces with, with Donald Trump and and, you know, we walk away from that and we explain to our base why we're making this decision,' she added. 'Not an easy decision.' 

Shanahan explained that some of the Democratic Party's moves to prevent her ticket from playing a 'spoiler' role in the election turned her off from ever supporting them.

'The DNC made that impossible for us. They have banned us, shadowbanned us, kept us off stages, manipulated polls, used lawfare against us, sued us in every possible state,' she claimed. 'They even planted insiders into our campaign to disrupt it and to create actual legal issues for us.' 

'The extent by which the sabotage they've unleashed upon us, it's mind-blowing. We are still learning news ways they have sabotaged us,' Shanahan continued. 

The Democrats have filed a number of lawsuits to keep the Kennedy-Shanahan ticket off the ballot. 

A spokesperson for the party has charged again and again that Kennedy's entire camapign was meant to give Trump a leg up.

Trump, on the other hand, was heard on the phone last month suggesting he could throw RFK Jr. a bone.

He reiterated that point during an interview with CNN Tuesday. 

'Certainly,' he responded when asked if there was a role for RKF Jr. in a Trump 2.0 administration. 

'I like him and I respect him,' Trump continued. 'He's a brilliant guy. He's a very smart guy. I've known him for a very long time. I didn't know he was thinking about getting out, but if he is thinking about getting out, certainly I'd be open to it.'  

Shanahan said on Impact Theory that the ex-president 'has taken genuine, sincere interest in our policies around chronic disease.'

'He takes it seriously. For that reason, I think it behooves us to sit and see if we can actually make some change,' the vice presidential candidate added.

The 38-year-old said that Kennedy would do an 'incredible job with HHS' and then butchered what the acronym stood for. 

'Human Health Services,' she told Bilyeu. 

It's the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.