Yikes: RFK Jr.’s Rich Running Mate Just Added $8 Million to His Effort

THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

The New Republic

News, Politics

4.4 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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This week, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s running mate, Nicole Shanahan, dropped a bomb: She announced a donation of another $8 million to his campaign. That’s substantially more than her initial $2 million, and suggests much more is coming. Which is a reminder: It’s still very plausible that RFK Jr. will get on the ballot in many of the swing states that will decide the election. We talked to veteran Democratic strategist Stephanie Schriock, who explains why Shanahan’s wealth suggests it’s time to take the RFK Jr. spoiler threat very, very seriously. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:21.8	Greg Sargent. This week, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s running mate, Nicole Shanahan dropped a bomb.
1:29.6	She said she had just given another $8 million to his campaign. That's substantially more than the two million she is given to date, bringing the total to around 10 million. Which is a reminder. It's still very, very plausible
1:36.4	that RFK will end up on the ballot in many of the swing states that will decide the presidential
1:41.4	election, if not all of them. And this comes amid signs in the polling that RFK is an unpredictable factor,
1:48.9	one who could very well serve as a spoiler who helps Trump win the White House.
1:53.7	So today we're talking to Democratic strategist Stephanie Shriak,
1:57.6	who is closely tracking the RFK phenomenon and can help us make sense of these
2:01.8	latest developments. Good to have you on, Stephanie. Thank you, Greg. Great to be here.
2:07.6	Okay, so Nicole Shanahan is a 38-year-old Silicon Valley investor who was formerly married to Google's
2:14.0	co-founder. She gave RFK's campaign $2 million just after he announced her as his running
2:19.7	mate, and now she's added another $8 million. It looks like a lot of this money will go into
2:25.0	organizing and collecting signatures to get RFK on the ballot everywhere. So what do you think? I mean,
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