Robert F. Kennedy Jr. picks operating mate, lawyer Nicole Shanahan
38-year-old lawyer and philanthropist Nicole Shanahan was introduced as Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s operating mate.
A New York state marketing campaign guide for impartial presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. stated her precedence for the 2024 election is preserving President Joe Biden from 270 electoral votes — whether or not Kennedy wins or not.
“The Kennedy voter and the Trump voter, the enemy, our mutual enemy is Biden,” stated the guide, Rita Palma, referring to Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump. “Whether you assist Bobby or Trump, all of us oppose Biden.”
Palma seems in a video dated April 5 and shared by others on X, previously Twitter, outlining her concept in an handle to New York Republicans.
Her objective, as she describes, is to maintain Biden from reaching the minimal variety of electoral votes wanted to win the White House. And if no candidate reaches that necessary threshold, the choice would transfer into the arms of the GOP-controlled House.
“So we’re rid of Biden both method,” Palma stated.
In describing her hiring course of with the Kennedy marketing campaign, Palma claimed that the marketing campaign was conscious of and signed off on her messaging.
Amaryllis Fox, Kennedy’s marketing campaign director, stated in a statement on X that Palma has no involvement in “electoral technique” and was not too long ago employed as a poll access guide liable for scheduling volunteer shifts throughout an upcoming signature assortment drive.
“As an impartial motion, our supporters, volunteers, and discipline organizers come from all sides of the political spectrum and their causes for supporting Bobby are as disparate as their backgrounds,” Fox wrote.
She added that the video of Palma was not taken at a marketing campaign occasion.
“Palma was talking as a personal citizen and her statements on no account mirror marketing campaign technique, the only intention of which is to win the White House with votes from former Trump and Biden supporters alike,” Fox wrote.
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The Biden marketing campaign has criticized Kennedy as a spoiler candidate, pulling assist from the Democratic president in his bid for reelection.