A dozen environmental groups issued a sharp rebuke Friday of independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., an environmental lawyer who led the green group Waterkeeper Alliance until 2020 and has promised to be the “best environment president in American history.” Kennedy “is not an environmentalist,” reads the letter, whose signees included the Sierra Club, … Read more
Presidential campaigns are notoriously brutal. The bruising schedule. The bad coffee. The time away from home. The never-ending need to hit up donors for money. The attack ads. The ever-present possibility that it could all be for nothing. You know what’s probably also not fun? When a large portion of your family publicly endorses your … Read more
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who’s running for president as an independent candidate, suggested in a statement that the prosecutions of rioters who violently attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, might be politically motivated, a view that echoes that of former President Donald Trump and his allies. The statement came a day after Kennedy … Read more
Earlier this week, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that his 2024 running mate will not be Aaron Rodgers or Jesse Ventura, but Silicon Valley lawyer (and Sergey Brin ex) Nicole Shanahan. What is there to know about Kennedy’s VP pick? For starters: At a time when in vitro fertilization is under serious threat, she’s a … Read more
ORLANDO, Fla. — Robert Saleh expects Aaron Rodgers to be in Florham Park this fall and not on the campaign trail. Saleh spoke at the NFL’s owners’ meetings on Monday for the first time since it was reported that Rodgers, the Jets quarterback, was the potential pick of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for his running … Read more
Independent presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr. has yet to confirm a running mate but said on Tuesday that he would never choose someone “based on how much money they have.” “We, our campaign is one of the principal priorities of our campaign is bringing young people into politics and addressing the deprivation that is now … Read more
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) launched billboards in Michigan on Friday, hitting independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over his aligned Super PAC, American Values 2024, receiving donations from a former President Trump mega-donor, the committee first told The Hill. The committee is launching four billboards in Grand Rapids, Mich., as Kennedy kickstarts his tour … Read more
Will Andrew Yang join Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s ticket as the third-party hopeful’s VP? Probably not, but that apparently hasn’t stopped Kennedy from trying. Puck News reports that at the end of January, Kennedy called Yang and asked if he would want to be his number two. According to the outlet, Yang was “noncommittal on … Read more
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has added a new hire to his presidential campaign staff: Del Bigtree, who, per The Daily Beast, has the distinction of being known as “one of the country’s leading anti-vaxxers,” which makes a lot of sense given RFK Jr.’s views on vaccines, like that “There’s no vaccine that is safe and … Read more
