Former Hawaii congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard said in a statement that presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asked her if she would serve as his running mate, but she declined. ABC News report.
“I have met Mr. Kennedy several times and we have become good friends,” Gabbard said in a statement, according to the newspaper. “He asked me if I would be his running mate for vice president. After careful consideration, I politely declined.”
ABC News reported that a person close to President Kennedy said, “Yes, there were talks, but they didn’t go well.”
“We spoke to a lot of people,” the person said, according to the newspaper. “Tulsi is a rock star no matter what.”
Last week, President Kennedy announced Nicole Shanahan as his running mate.
kennedy launched He ran for the Democratic presidential nomination last year, but was later switched to an independent candidacy by the White House.
Gabbard, who? provided A Democratic Congressman from early 2013 to early 2021, he ran in the Democratic presidential primary during the last election cycle, but ultimately fell off And he supported Joe Biden.
In 2022, Gabbard announced that she would be leaving the Democratic Party. “I am calling on all common-sense, independent-minded Democrats to join me in leaving the Democratic Party,” she said. Said In video. She claimed the party was controlled by an “elite cabal of warmongers driven by a vile wokeness.”
she Book “For Love of Country: Leave the Democratic Party Behind” is scheduled for release at the end of April.
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