Aaron Rodgers and Jesse Ventura could not do for him what she can.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has named a 38-year-old Silicon Valley lawyer and tech entrepreneur with virtually no political experience as his vice-presidential running mate. The lawyer, Nicole Shanahan, had until now been best known as Google co-founder Sergey Brin’s ex-wife and as the funder of Kennedy’s ultra-expensive and controversialthat Shanahan, the daughter of an immigrant who grew up reliant on welfare, could represent young people and “the working poor who feel forgotten.
The news ended speculation over Kennedy’s pick fueled by Kennedy’s own campaign. On March 12, the New York Timesthat Kennedy’s two leading choices were Jesse Ventura and Aaron Rodgers, two sports-world celebrities known for promoting conspiracy theories. The campaign also teased potential running mates in former Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, an independent; former Massachusetts Sen.
Shanahan is the founder and president of something called the Bia-Echo Foundation, a private foundation that, according to her LinkedIn, invests in “reproductive longevity & equality, criminal justice reform and a healthy & livable planet.” The foundation launched a “Center for Reproductive Longevity and Equality” dedicated to funding reproductive health research and solutions.
She gave Kennedy’s campaign the maximum allowable donation of $6,600 in May. Then, when Kennedy left the Democratic Party in October and carried on as an independent, she expressed some disappointment. But according to the Times, she changed her mind early in 2024, after seeing “pockets of silent support all over the place,” and poured $4 million into the Super PAC behind the Kennedy Super Bowl ad.
The news doesn’t really make much of a difference for Kennedy’s chances of winning—he still polls a distant third: According to a newKennedy would nab 9 percentage of the electorate. But that poll also found that Kennedy’s campaign makes a difference: Adding third parties into the equation would give Trump an additional point lead over Biden, leaving them 43 to 38. Shanahan’s presence on the ballot might not give Kennedy’s campaign as much star power as someone like Rodgers, who has 4.
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