Last Updated on January 30, 2025
Robert F. Kennedy Junior’s 2024 independent-ticket running mate Nicole Shanahan vows to use her considerable wealth to launch primary challenges to U.S. senators who might be tempted to block Kennedy’s confirmation as President Trump’s Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary.
“If they represent your state, they need to hear from you,” Nicole Shanahan said in a video shortly before Kennedy’s first Senate confirmation hearing this week.
“The two candidates I helped elect, Senator Raphael Warnock and Senator John Ossoff, please know I will be watching your votes very closely. I will make it my personal mission that you lose your seats in the Senate if you vote against the future health of America’s children,” Shanahan warned.
“And more than that, I also want to say to Senators Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham, Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins, Bill Cassidy, Thom Tillis, James Lankford, Cory Booker, John Fetterman, Bernie Sanders, and Catherine Cortez Masto: This is a bipartisan message and it comes directly from me. While Bobby may be willing to play nice, I won’t. If you vote against him, I will personally fund challengers to primary you in your next election. And I will enlist hundreds of thousands to join me,” Shanahan vowed.
“Big Pharma and Big Ag have exploited us for far too long. It ends now. You’re either on the side of transparency and accountability or you are standing in the way. The choice is yours,” Shanahan said.
