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Last week, independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. introduced his running mate, Nicole Shanahan. Shanahan has never served in government in any form and has no qualification to be president should the need arise, but she was formerly married to Google co-founder Sergey Brin and the divorce left her extremely wealthy. This is why Kennedy picked her, despite her being totally unqualified.
Now it has come out that Shanahan wasn't Kennedy's first choice. Before popping the question to Shanahan, Kennedy popped it to former representative Tulsi Gabbard and she said no. Gabbard refused to explain why she refused the potential bucket of warm liquid. She did say the two of them met multiple times to discuss the offer, but in the end, she wasn't interested. Was Gabbard the only other one Kennedy asked? He's not talking.
Gabbard used to be a Democrat and even ran in the Democratic presidential primary in 2020, but she is way out of step with the Democratic mainstream and got nowhere. She later left the Party, just as Kennedy did. Gabbard's name often appears on pundits' list of veepable women. We're not convinced that makes sense. She doesn't bring in any demographic or state and she doesn't have any expertise on some subject that would be useful in a presidential administration. (V)