Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to announce his choice of running mate on March 26 in Oakland, California, his campaign said Wednesday.
The warning comes a day after a 70-year-old man said: new york times New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers and former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura were “at the top” of No. 2 candidates.
Other celebrities approached as vice presidential candidates include former Democratic Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), 2020 presidential candidate and 2021 New York City mayoral candidate Andrew These include Mr. Yang, but according to the Times, all of them apparently declined. .
But the paper said Mr. Rogers and Mr. Ventura “welcome” the former Democratic congressman’s pleas, and a campaign representative told the Post late Tuesday that they were on the “short list” of vice presidential candidates. I admitted that there was.
Mr. Rogers has been an early supporter of Mr. Kennedy, posting the hashtag “kennedy2024” on social media in April 2023, and last month he was photographed hiking with the two. It was getting worse.
The NFL star has been a vocal critic of the coronavirus vaccine, a mainstay of Kennedy’s campaign.
Mr. Ventura, who introduced Mr. Kennedy at an event in Arizona last month, has a similar third-party background and is the only one to hold high office, winning the 1998 Minnesota gubernatorial election as a Reform Party member. He became a reformist candidate.
Kennedy initially ran as a Democrat against President Biden before announcing his independent candidacy, but polls show him as the leading third-party candidate in the field, ahead of Biden and Donald Trump. He consistently has a double-digit lead over the president.
a HarrisX poll released on Monday The poll showed Kennedy at 12% in a hypothetical matchup with Trump (41%), Biden (35%) and two other minor candidates. Independent Cornel West and Green Party member Jill Stein each won 1%.
In the same five-way race, Mr. Kennedy has 12.4%, Mr. Trump has 41.1%, Mr. Biden has 38.4%, Mr. West has 2.4% and Mr. Stein has 1.8%, according to average data from RealClearPolitics polls.
The most likely presidential candidate faces an uphill battle to get on each state’s ballot as an independent, and his campaign says his campaign will cost $15 million.
Kennedy’s campaign claims he is only eligible to vote in four states: Hawaii, Nevada, New Hampshire and Utah, but efforts are continuing in other states, including battleground states Arizona, Georgia, Michigan and North Carolina. It is being
Press Secretary Stephanie Spear told the newspaper in November that Kennedy would need to make a vice presidential decision “sooner rather than later” because some states require candidates to choose a running mate before registering to vote. told.
