It’s been over a week since RFK Jr. announced billionaire Nichole Shanahan as his running mate, and contrary to conventional wisdom, the RFK Jr. campaign is reeling in the days after their splashy announcement.
- March 28: Just two days after RFK Jr. announced Shanahan as his running mate during an Oakland rally, Politico reported she called IVF procedures “one of the biggest lies being told about women’s health” and that she is the financial backer for groups that tout medically-dubious steps for women to conceive, like exposure to sunlight.
- March 29: The day before he was set to host a Cesar Chavez-themed campaign event on the late activist’s birthday, Chavez’s family sent a letter to RFK Jr. asking him to stop using their father’s name and image to promote his campaign.
- April 1: During an interview on Outfront with Erin Burnett, RFK Jr. claimed President Biden is a bigger threat to democracy than Trump, who led a violent insurrection to overturn an election he knew he lost. The events of January 6th led to the deaths of at least seven people.
- April 2: In an interview with Andrew Cuomo, RFK Jr. tried to walk back his statement that Biden was a bigger threat to democracy than Trump and claimed that the interview had been cut to make him look “crazy.”
- During the same interview, RFK Jr. said he didn’t think a Trump presidency would kill democracy.
- April 2: During an interview on Fox & Friends, RFK Jr. tried sweeping his running mate’s IVF comments under the rug by repeating anti-IVF messaging and telling hosts, “it’s the domination by the pharmaceutical industry of that technology and some of the bad science that she’s talking about that needs to be addressed.”
- In February, RFK Jr. told the Washington Post he hadn’t read the Alabama Supreme Court ruling and refused to say when life begins.
- April 4: NBC News revealed new reporting that RFK Jr.’s campaign sent an email calling violent insurrectionists “activists” who have been “stripped of their Constitutional liberties.”
- Last year, Kennedy told The Washington Post he would consider pardoning Jan. 6 defendants.
On top of a mountain of bad press for the Kennedy campaign, many are whispering about the near-radio silence from Shanahan after the campaign’s splashy rollout over a week ago. Shanahan hasn’t been made available for major interviews and doesn’t show up on the campaign’s online event schedule.
Published: Apr 5, 2024 | Last Modified: Apr 8, 2024