People closely aligned with former President Donald Trump reportedly tried to recruit the former Democratic presidential candidate as his running mate.
The New York Post, citing sources close to Trump familiar with the matter, said that people close to the former president have suggested that he could be his running mate in the presidential election against independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy. It was reported that he had made a “prior request” about sex. 2024 presidential election.
“Trump operatives expressed interest in Kennedy early on, but it was all premature,” a person familiar with the matter told the outlet, adding that in April 2023, “Bobby was the next candidate for Kennedy. That's what happened right away when I announced that I was going to make a statement like that.” run for the White House.
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People close to former President Donald Trump have reportedly made “preliminary overtures” to independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy about potentially running as Trump's running mate in the 2024 presidential election. There is. (Getty Images)
“Anything can happen. I would never write it off,” the source added.
Kennedy, 70, originally ran for president as a Democrat last year. However, amid a conflict with the Democratic National Committee, which fully supports President Biden in the 2024 election, Biden announced in October that he would run for the White House instead.
A person who has made large donations to both the Trump and Kennedy campaigns said that efforts to endorse Kennedy as President Trump's running mate are still active among Trump insiders. he told the same media.
“It's just behind the scenes at this stage. You may see it pick up a little bit more as it progresses,” the donor said. “Bobby can bring new people to the polls.”
Fox News Digital reached out to the Trump and Kennedy campaigns but did not immediately receive a response.
Earlier this week, Trump and RFK took sides on the ongoing southern border crisis in Texas.
President Kennedy said it was “right” for Texas to secure its border, even as he deemed the Biden administration's policies a failure.
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President Kennedy said earlier this week that it was “right” for Texas to secure its border, even as he deemed the Biden administration's policies a failure. (Hans Gutknecht/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images)
“A country without borders is not a country at all,” he wrote in a post to X.
President Trump said all Americans should support Texas' “common sense steps” to “stop the invasion, close the border and quickly launch the largest domestic deportation operation in history.” “We will work with Lone Star Governor Greg Abbott and other border states to achieve this goal.” . ”
President Trump said on his platform, Truth Social, that “those people accepted by Biden will be sent home, so they shouldn't feel safe.”
Republicans won the primaries in both Iowa and New Hampshire, and Trump is expected to become the Republican presidential nominee. Speculation has been rife in recent weeks about who the former president would choose as his running mate.
Earlier this month, President Trump said at an Iowa City Hall event hosted by Fox News that he knew who his running mate would be.
Former U.S. President and 2024 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at City Hall in Des Moines, Iowa, on January 10, 2024. (Kamil Krzazinski/AFP via Getty Images)
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Asked who his running mate will be in 2024, President Trump said, “I can't really say. I mean, I know who it's going to be.”
It is unclear who that person will be, and few political observers seem to have a good idea who President Trump is supporting as his running mate.
“I'm going to do the show again someday,” Trump said, prompting host Martha McCallum to “give me a hint.”
FOX News' Paul Steinhauser contributed reporting.
