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https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/20/rfk-jr-campaign-trump-alliance-shanahan.html
The independent presidential campaign of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is considering abandoning his quest for the White House to "join forces" with Republican nominee Donald Trump, Kennedy's running mate Nicole Shanahan says in a new interview.
Shanahan said the campaign is also considering remaining in the contest to try to win more than 5% of the popular vote and "establish ourselves" as a third-party alternative to the Republican and Democratic parties, and build on that ballot access for the 2028 election.
"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 said in the interview on the Impact Theory podcast.
"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 told interviewer Tom Bilyeu.
"Not easy, not an easy decision," she added.
If Kennedy and Shanahan quit the election contest, it is not clear if their would-be voters would necessarily go to Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio. But some polls show the Democratic nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris, would be stronger against Trump in swing states when Kennedy is included as a candidate, as opposed to when Kennedy is not an option.
Earlier in the interview, Shanahan said, "I did not put in tens of millions of dollars to be a spoiler candidate."
"I put in tens of millions of dollars to win, to fix this country, to do the right thing," she said. "We don't want to be a spoiler."
"We wanted to win. We wanted a fair shot," Shanahan added.
Bilyeu in a post on X said the interview was filmed Monday.
A spokeswoman for Kennedy's campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Shanahan's interview, which came days before Harris is set to formally accept the Democratic presidential nomination in Chicago with her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.
Kennedy last year abandoned his efforts to win the Democratic nomination.
His late father, New York Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, was assassinated in June 1968 after winning the Democratic presidential primary in California.
