NATIONAL REVIEW
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is weighing whether to exit the race and endorse former president Donald Trump, according to Kennedy’s running mate, Nicole Shanahan.
In a new interview on the Impact Theory podcast, Shanahan said the campaign is trying to decide whether to shutter or to try to win more than 5 percent of the popular vote to “establish ourselves” as a viable third-party alternative – though Shanahan said she doesn’t want to be a “spoiler candidate” by pulling votes from Trump.
“There’s two options that we’re looking at and one is staying in, forming that new party, but we run the risk of a Kamala Harris and Walz presidency because we draw votes from Trump, or we draw somehow more votes from Trump,” Shanahan told host Tom Bilyeu in an interview recorded Monday.
“Or we walk away right now and join forces with … Donald Trump and you know, we walk away from that and explain to our base why we’re making this decision,” Shanahan added, saying it is “not an easy decision.”
Shanahan accused the DNC of rigging the race against them. She said Clear Choice, a DNC-aligned PAC that was behind the lawsuit that got Kennedy disqualified the New York general election ballot, has “unfortunately turned us into a spoiler and we don’t want to be a spoiler.”
“We wanted to win. We wanted a fair shot,” Shanahan added. “The DNC made that impossible for us. They have banned us, shadow-banned us, kept us off stages, manipulated polls, used law-fare against us, sued us in every possible state — they’ve even planted insiders into our campaign to disrupt it and to create actual legal issues for us.”
