Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s running mate, Bay Area lawyer Nicole Shanahan, admitted on a podcast released Tuesday that they’re thinking about dropping out of the presidential race and endorsing former President Donald Trump.
Shanahan appeared on an episode of Tom Bilyeu’s Impact Theory 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.’
The Washington Post reported last week that Kennedy had tried to get in touch with Harris to see if she’d be interested in giving him a Cabinet gig in exchange for an endorsement.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s running mate, Bay Area lawyer Nicole Shanahan, admitted on a podcast released Tuesday that they’re thinking about dropping out of the presidential race and endorsing former President Donald Trump
The Democrats said publicly they have no interest in bartering with Kennedy, whose famous family members endorsed President Joe Biden and now Harris.
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.
Independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (left) had a phone conversation last month with former President Donald Trump (right), where it was clear Trump was courting him for a potential endorsement. Democrats, on the other hand, have no interest
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.
She added later in the podcast that she hasn’t been personally engaged in the conversations with the Trump campaign.
‘I am not in talks with Trump, I want to make that clear,’ she said.
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.
During the sit-down, Shanahan – whose claim to fame before entering politics was being the ex-wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin – also hinted at what her next move could be: running for governor of California.
The Oakland native said she’d be ‘happy to support somebody great to run for California governor so we can nip this dynastic lineage in the butt.’
‘I would consider running as well,’ she said.