Last Updated on March 14, 2024
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is prepared to announce his running mate on March 26, as some names from his vice presidential shortlist are going mega-viral and infuriating establishment gatekeepers in the media.
“We wanted somebody who was aligned with my values, optimistic about our country and its potential and able to run the country at a moment’s notice,” stated insurgent candidate Kennedy, whose quest for 270 electoral votes is already the most successful challenge to the two-party system since Ross Perot ran as a Trumpian protectionist in 1992.
Kennedy plans to make the running-mate announcement in Oakland, California on Tuesday March 26.
The shortlist includes New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers, formerly of the Green Bay Packers, whose presence on the list sparked a media firestorm and an intense campaign to smear Rodgers for his history of questioning establishment narratives.
Longtime Dirty Jobs host and working-class champion Mike Rowe is also being considered, which is pretty interesting considering that Rowe has very high public favorability as a media personality.
Kennedy had running-mate conversations with Republican Senator Rand Paul and left-leaning political figures Tulsi Gabbard and Andrew Yang. Also on the list: independent former Minnesota governor and ex-professional wrestler Jesse “The Body” Ventura.
Trump and Kennedy have gone back and forth with quips directed at one another, after initially playing nice during primary season. Trump is trying to paint Kennedy as a left-wing extremist for Kennedy’s environmentalist views, while Kennedy is challenging Trump on the decisions that the Republican made during the 2020 Scamdemic, when the country reeled from record-high unemployment and so many people took mRNA needle injections into their bodies because politicians and the media told them to.
Will Trump and Kennedy see each other in a debate? Joe Biden’s team is not even committed to debating Trump, so we shall see.
Kennedy has vowed not to enact any gun confiscation as president (a promise the people must hold him accountable to). From a political standpoint, Kennedy’s comment that he wants to ban fracking is not going to help him out in the general election, and it’s a policy that would not help him in the high-stakes energy game known as the presidency of the United States.
As a relative political newcomer, Kennedy is still learning the ropes. Yet, as the latest iteration of a long-running populist dynasty in Massachusetts politics, Kennedy has savvy instincts.
Conservative media helped to promote Kennedy to weaken Biden in the Democrat primary, but when Kennedy ran independent the game changed and the Trump camp got nervous.
Kennedy parted ways with his Democrat campaign manager Dennis Kucinich, replaced him with his daughter-in-law Amaryllis Fox, and went viral with his “I Declare My Independence” slogan.
Kennedy is in the process of getting on the ballot in all 50 states, as he aspires to do. Kennedy believes that he can win the presidency with about 34 percent of the popular vote. There is some speculation that Kennedy could take the Libertarian Party’s nomination to help him with ballot access. Since Kennedy is the only viable independent candidate in the race, it would be a smart move for the Libertarian Party to consider such a deal.
I discussed the Trump and Kennedy showdown on a recent episode of The Campaign Show with Patrick Howley, which airs every morning on X and Banned Dot Video. Enjoy:
