Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Picks Running Mate, NOT Aaron Rodgers

It will’ve been higher than an episode of “Veep” … sadly, Vice President Aaron Rodgers will not be coming to a ballot close to you — Robert F. Kennedy has picked his operating mate, and it is NOT the 4-time NFL MVP!

Throughout a marketing campaign occasion in Oakland on Tuesday, RFK Jr. introduced Northern California-based legal professional Nicole Shanahan, 38, would anchor the Impartial’s ticket.

In fact, RFK Jr. was contemplating two different high-profile choices … together with 40-year-old Rodgers, a future first-ballot Corridor of Famer, who the 70-year-old confirmed was near the “top” of his shortlist. Mike Rowe and Jesse Ventura had been additionally thought of.

Finally, Robert selected to go in one other route, and it is not a shocker.

Kennedy’s been linked to Shanahan, who was as soon as married to Google co-founder Sergey Brin, since earlier this yr when she made an enormous $4 million donation to fund, partially, a 30-second Tremendous Bowl advert selling the environmental legal professional’s marketing campaign.

It wasn’t the primary time Shanahan donated to a political marketing campaign. She made a number of contributions to Democratic candidates over time, together with Joe Biden in 2020. Robert initially launched his marketing campaign as a Democrat, however switched events late final yr after he stated social gathering bigwigs tried to dam him from difficult the present POTUS within the primaries.