Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will announce his running mate at an event later this month, his campaign announced Wednesday.
The announcement will take place on Tuesday, March 26th at 11am PDT in Oakland, California. Kennedy is making tickets to the event available for purchase for a $24 campaign donation, but children can attend for free.
For $500, attendees can attend an “exclusive post-announcement reception” and receive event “memorabilia.”
“This historic event reaffirms the Kennedy campaign’s core principles of restoring the middle class, ending the epidemic of chronic disease, rolling back the war machine, and unraveling the corporate capture of government,” the campaign said in a press release. It will happen,” he said.
The event took place amid a flurry of rumors over the past few days about Kennedy’s selection as the president’s running mate.
On Tuesday, the Kennedy campaign confirmed to The Hill that its top running mate candidates include New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers and former professional wrestler and Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura.
President Kennedy has approached both men about running on his ticket, and both men say they “welcome the offer.” According to the New York Timesfirst broke the news on Tuesday.
Kennedy has spoken with Rodgers, also a vaccine skeptic, “quite consistently” over the last month, and has been in touch with Ventura since meeting at a campaign event last month, the Times reported.
Kennedy still has other candidates on his “shortlist,” his campaign confirmed to The Hill. Other potential candidates include former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (I-Hawaii), Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), and former presidential candidate Andrew Yang.
Kennedy initially launched a Democratic presidential bid, but is now seeking national voting rights as an independent candidate. President Kennedy said that while he is no longer ideologically aligned with the Democratic Party, he is also completely inconsistent with the Republican Party.
He has already collected enough signatures to be on the ballot in the battleground states of New Hampshire, Utah, Hawaii and Nevada.his Super PAC also says It has enough support to be on the ballot in Georgia, Arizona and South Carolina.
Kennedy’s third-party candidacy could steal voters away from both President Biden and former President Trump — the threshold needed to secure enough delegates for both parties’ nominations on Tuesday. However, Democrats are especially concerned about Kennedy’s candidacy.
Trump leads with 41.4% support, followed by Biden with 38.7% and Kennedy with 11.1%, according to The Hill/Decision Desk Headquarters three-way national polling average.
The gap between Mr. Trump and Mr. Biden narrowed in the binary election, with Mr. Trump leading Mr. Biden by 1.6 points from 45.9% to 44.33%.
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