Keller: Joe Biden, Donald Trump Right To Be Worried About RFK Jr.

By Jon Keller, CBS Boston

March 28, 2024

BOSTON - Who is Nicole Shanahan, introduced this week as independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s running mate? "A brilliant scientist, technologist, a fierce warrior mom," said Kennedy.

Another key qualification he didn't mention - she's a multi-millionaire who appears willing to spend big on this campaign. Shanahan put up $4 million out of her pocket to fund a controversial Super Bowl ad transposing Kennedy's face on an old John F. Kennedy campaign commercial.

That move infuriated members of the Kennedy family, some of whom have been pushing back hard against Bobby's candidacy, posing recently for a group photo at the White House in support of President Joe Biden and making it clear they think the campaign's a sham. As JFK's grandson Jack Schlossberg put it in a widely circulated video: "He's trading in on Camelot, celebrity, conspiracy theories and conflict for personal gain and fame."

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