Posted on 03/13/2024 2:53:34 PM PDT by thegagline
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will announce his choice of running mate on March 26 in Oakland, Calif., his campaign revealed Wednesday.
The heads-up comes one day after the 70-year-old told the New York Times that New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers and former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura were “at the top of his list” to be his No. 2.
Other prominent figures approached as VP possibilities include former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and 2020 presidential candidate and 2021 New York mayoral candidate Andrew Yang — all of whom apparently declined, according to The Times.
*** Rodgers was an early supporter of Kennedy, posting a “kennedy2024” hashtag on social media as early as April 2023, and the two men were pictured hiking together last month. The NFL star has been a vocal critic of the COVID-19 vaccine, an issue that is a pillar of Kennedy’s campaign.
Ventura introduced Kennedy at an event in Arizona last month and has a similar third-party background, winning the 1998 Minnesota gubernatorial election as a member of the Reform Party — the only Reform candidate to achieve high office. *** A HarrisX poll released Monday showed Kennedy polling at 12% in a hypothetical matchup with Trump (41%), Biden (35%) and two other minor candidates. Independent Cornel West and the Green Party’s Jill Stein both got 1% each.
RealClearPolitics polling average data shows Kennedy at 12.4% in the same five-way race, with Trump at 41.1%, Biden at 38.4%, West at 2.4% and Stein at 1.8%.
The longshot presidential candidate is facing an uphill battle to get on the ballot in every state as an independent, with the campaign saying it will cost them $15 million. ***
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He doesn’t want to run an effective third party ticket. He wants to screw up the election, just like Perot. Runoffs would fix that crap.
I want this election to be forced into the House of Representatives.
Agreed. Imagine auditing the DOD, dismantling the Fed, and prosecuting those who bought us Operation Warp Speed. Julian Assange would be pardoned, the FBi and the CIA would no longer be spying on us. Our military would be brought home. Etc etc
Rodgers will get picked whether he runs or plays football.
I figured he would go with Tulsi Gabbard.
“RFK Jr. is turning himself into a bit of a joke. Sad that.”
Did you think he made sense before?
RFK, Jr.: Climate Skeptics ‘Should Be at the Hague with All the Other War Criminals’ https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3206882/posts
RFK, Jr. wants me jailed … as a war criminal https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3211190/posts
RFK Jr.: Hog farmers bigger threat than Osama https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2178592/posts
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Wants To Jail His Political Opponents https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3206573/posts
Lessons in civility from RFK, Jr. https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3509601/posts
Robert Kennedy Jr. Blames Reagan For 9/11 [for rolling back CAFE standards in 1986] https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1855875/posts
RFK Jr. spreads blame for environmental woes in New Bedford speech https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1913559/posts
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Blames Fairness Doctrine Abolishment for Conservatism Popularity https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2479527/posts
RFK, Jr: ‘We have so much to learn from Cuba’ https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3243628/posts
RFK Endorses AOC’s Green New Deal, Calls for Climate Taxation https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4187998/posts
Watch RFK, Jr. lose it at climate change march when confronted about his hypocrisy https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3206578/posts
Andrea Mitchell Applauds RFK Jr.’s ‘Impassioned Plea’ for Obama to Stop Keystone Pipeline by Fiat https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3120692/posts
RFK Jr. Slams “Right-Wing Control of American Media” https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2967445/posts
RFK Jr: Right-Wing Controls American Media, Fox News Has Divided US to a Point not Seen Since Civil War https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2967311/posts
RFK jr: Sen. Inhofe is a “Call Girl” for Big Oil (But it’s OK to say it, he’s a Democrat after all) https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2855976/posts
Robert Kennedy, Jr.’s ‘Green’ Company Scored $1.4 Billion Taxpayer Bailout https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2808401/posts
RFK Jr. Claims Air America Was More Popular Than Conservative Radio https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2740193/posts
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Endorses Charlie Crist, Attacks Tea Party (Video) https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2606809/posts
RFK, Jr. 15 months ago: Global warming means no snow or cold in DC https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2446226/posts
Robert Kennedy Jr.: right-wing hosts spread hate https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2271218/posts
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr: Innocent ACORN Defrauded by ACORN Workers https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2109548/posts
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: ‘There Is No Liberal Media’(video barf!) https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2021728/posts
Kennedy Calls Skeptical Politicians ‘Traitors’ and ‘Corporate Toadies’ https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1864440/posts
RFK Jr. Says AGW Skeptics Should Be Silenced https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1864945/posts
Video: Stossel Takes Robert F. Kennedy Jr. On For Traitor Remark https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1864510/posts
RFK Jr. Calls Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck Lying ‘Flat Earthers’ https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1863207/posts
RFK (Robberbaron F. Kennedy) Jr. vs. Mike Gallagher on Energy Independence https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2033812/posts
The Incredible Shrinking Credibility of RFK, Jr. https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1644744/posts
RFK Jr.: Bush, Barbour to Blame for Katrina https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1473838/posts
RFK Jr: You know, my uncle was also shot amid a climate of right-wing hate https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2655920/posts
Flashback - Palin’s Big Oil infatuation [End of snow forever in DC] https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3387273/posts
RFK Jr says Donald Trump has ‘discredited the American experiment’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7903551/Robert-Kennedy-Jr-says-Donald-Trump-discredited-American-experiment.html
I still think that is most probable. She is wasting her time with Trump and has endorsed RFK Jr in the past so it would be difficult to run against him now.
I think Kennedy just thew those names out to see what would happen, he’s too serious and been around politics way too long to pick any light weights for the VP slot. All this does is get the MSM in a frenzy, nothing more.
Sinema — if she’s not just fed up with all politics.
Kennedy and Manchin would probably disagree too much about coal.
Gabbard — might take a back seat to a major party candidate, but taking one to Bobby Jr. wouldn’t make much sense.
Yang — he does bring his gang with him, but I don’t know how much the rest of the country would like him. Too nerdy.
If the Green Party is having a convention, Kennedy could mount a bid to get their nomination as well.
He’s playing this to drum up support for the campaign. Call it cheap publicity but all is fair the media has screwed him when most people don’t even know he is running.
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