The U.S. Secret Service (USSS) stopped protecting Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday, just a few days after he dropped out of the 2024 presidential run.

An official spokesperson for Kennedy told CBS News that the change was true. Kennedy had to go through a long process to get USSS cover in the first place. Earlier in the cycle, his first requests were turned down.

Before the July attempt on the life of former President Donald Trump, President Biden did not ask that Kennedy also get Secret Service protection.

“In light of this weekend’s events, the president has directed me to work with the Secret Service to provide protection to Robert Kennedy, Jr. Both prior to and after the events of this past weekend,” Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced shortly after Trump’s shooting, Fox News reported.

RFK Jr. told Fox News on Sunday that he was taking his name off ballots in key swing states to hurt Vice President Kamala Harris in November.

Kennedy dropped his unlikely independent run for president on Friday and backed former President Donald Trump. He said Democrats rigged the race against him and the voters, which was one of the reasons he asked to be taken off the Pennsylvania ballots.

During an interview on “Fox News Sunday,” host Shannon Bream asked Kennedy about his support for Trump. The now-former candidate said he will remove his name from ballots in states that Harris needs to win to secure 270 electoral votes in November.

Below is a transcript of the exchange, via Grabien:

BREAM: Have you all negotiated over or talked about a cabinet position, another position within a Trump government in exchange for your endorsement?

KENNEDY: No. There there’s been no commitments. But you know, I met with President Trump, with his family, with his close advisors, and we just made a general commitment that we were going to work together.

BREAM: What about the states where you’re trying to get off of a number of swing state ballots to say, I’m going to stay on a number of state ballots, but in these swing states, I’m going to try to withdraw myself and ask my supporters, or at least you’re telling them, think about supporting President Trump. Did you negotiate over which states you would try to withdraw from?

KENNEDY: Yeah, I mean, we all know which states they were. They’re basically 10 swing states where my presence in the race would have helped Vice President Harris and would have harmed President Trump. So I’m going to get off the ballot in other states, and then we’re going to stay on the ballot in 30 states. And, you know, I’m encouraging people to vote for me in those states, those are states –they’re all red or all blue states where their votes are not going to change the outcome of the race. And, and in the in the states where I would have been a spoiler, I’m going to get out. It was about 10 states.

A leading pollster revealed that RFK Jr. suspending his campaign and endorsing Trump is a nightmare scenario for Harris.

The independent candidate was only polling at around 5 percent nationwide but in a tight contest between the two main candidates, that minor percentage could be what decides the presidency, the New York Post reported.

“Most of Kennedy’s left-leaning support had already dispersed to Harris,” Cook Political Report senior editor and elections analyst Dave Wasserman said to The Post. “So this could represent a meaningful benefit for Trump.”

“We’re talking probably a fraction of a point in our survey from August in battleground states,” he said. “Forty-six percent of RFK supporters went with Trump in a two-way race, 26% went with Harris and Kennedy’s support had collapsed from 8% to 5% nationally.”

“Campaigns would spend hundreds of millions of dollars for a fraction of a point given how tight the margins are in these battleground states,” he said as he referenced the tiny margins in 2020, particularly in Arizona and Georgia.

“RFKs endorsement won’t move all his supporters to Trump,” he said. “We’re in a very volatile environment right now and it could remain that way through the election.”

Chris Lane, a pollster for Cygnal, said that “among swing voters who will ultimately decide this election, 16% indicated they were going to vote for RFK.”

“With margins in battleground states being razor-thin, that 16% could represent the difference between winning and losing a state,” he said. “If RFK encourages his supporters to vote for Trump, it could have a massive impact and change the calculus for both Trump and Harris, especially in battleground states.”

“Add in the fact that those 16% are more center-right than anything, and will ultimately add to Trump’s ballot share,” he said. “Our data shows 4:1, these swing voters were more likely to call themselves conservatives than liberals.”

And even anti-Trump pollster Frank Luntz said the RFK endorsement could decide the election.

“It’s probably worth about 1% for Trump and that 1% could be everything if it’s in the swing states. In the end, the reason why Kennedy was drawing 10, 12, even as high as 14% is because he was taking votes away from Joe Biden. Joe Biden’s gone. Kamala Harris has replaced him, and [RFK’s] vote collapsed down to about 4 or 5% and what’s left is a Trump vote,” the pollster said when he appeared on NewsNation after the endorsement and spoke to host Leland Vittert.

“Some of them are simply not going to participate in November. Roughly two to one, the ones who are remaining will vote for Trump over Harris and that’s worth a single percent and that single percent can make the difference in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin,” added Luntz.