RFK Jr. Running Mate Unboxing: It's Sergey Brin's ex wife / Elon Musk paramour Nicole Shanahan

[Redban]

The fact that this guy is polling as well as he is tells you a lot about the state of American politics.

I guess most people don't know about him other than he's a Kennedy (even though is entire family backs Biden). And there's a decent junk of voters outside partisan Democrats and Republicans with a low appetite for a rematch. Nonetheless, I doubt he finishes above two or three percent of the vote (hopefully he gets out of the race before the election).

He's going to take more from Trump than Biden in the end so I wouldn't worry about it.

You know how everyone knows that's not true? ... you never see Republicans attack Kennedy, you don't see Republicans calling him names like anti-vax weirdo, you don't see Republicans dreaming that he'll finish under 3%, you don't see Republicans calling for RFK Jr to drop out.

But you see all of that from the Democrats. The DNC even has a whole division focused specifically on trying to sabotage RFK Jr, Stein, and the others by legal actions and public messaging. The RNC isn't trying to pull off those stunts

[President Johnson]

https://nypost.com/2024/03/27/opinion/rfk-jr-s-progressive-vp-pick-nicole-shanahan-will-doom-bidens-re-election/

RFK Jr.’s progressive VP pick Nicole Shanahan will doom Biden’s re-election

On Tuesday, Kennedy made himself more lethal to Biden by naming as his running mate the well-divorced California attorney and tech investor Nicole Shanahan.

Shanahan, who calls herself a “progressive through and through,” is the radical-left millennial ex-wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, who divorced her after she was rumored to have had an affair with Elon Musk. (Shanahan and Musk deny it.)
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For most of her adult life, Shanahan has contributed to radical-left causes and candidates that have brought California to utter ruin.

She donated $700,000 to support Measure J, a post-George Floyd Los Angeles County criminal justice initiative that defunded law enforcement and diverted local revenue to “alternatives to incarceration.”

We all know how well that turned out.

She gave $150,000 to support George Gascón’s 2020 bid for LA district attorney despite his disastrous record in the same job in San Francisco.

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Lest anyone think Shanahan is truly “independent,” she donated $25,000 to Biden’s 2020 victory fund after having initially supported Pete Buttigieg and Marianne Williamson for that year’s Democratic nomination.

Imagine actually believing she makes a difference. Lmao.

[Progressive Pessimist]

https://nypost.com/2024/03/27/opinion/rfk-jr-s-progressive-vp-pick-nicole-shanahan-will-doom-bidens-re-election/

RFK Jr.’s progressive VP pick Nicole Shanahan will doom Biden’s re-election

On Tuesday, Kennedy made himself more lethal to Biden by naming as his running mate the well-divorced California attorney and tech investor Nicole Shanahan.

Shanahan, who calls herself a “progressive through and through,” is the radical-left millennial ex-wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, who divorced her after she was rumored to have had an affair with Elon Musk. (Shanahan and Musk deny it.)
...
For most of her adult life, Shanahan has contributed to radical-left causes and candidates that have brought California to utter ruin.

She donated $700,000 to support Measure J, a post-George Floyd Los Angeles County criminal justice initiative that defunded law enforcement and diverted local revenue to “alternatives to incarceration.”

We all know how well that turned out.

She gave $150,000 to support George Gascón’s 2020 bid for LA district attorney despite his disastrous record in the same job in San Francisco.

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Lest anyone think Shanahan is truly “independent,” she donated $25,000 to Biden’s 2020 victory fund after having initially supported Pete Buttigieg and Marianne Williamson for that year’s Democratic nomination.

Garbage take. Any progressives who have a problem with Biden would also recoil at a Silicon Valley type.

[Tekken_Guy]

The fact that this guy is polling as well as he is tells you a lot about the state of American politics.

I guess most people don't know about him other than he's a Kennedy (even though is entire family backs Biden). And there's a decent junk of voters outside partisan Democrats and Republicans with a low appetite for a rematch. Nonetheless, I doubt he finishes above two or three percent of the vote (hopefully he gets out of the race before the election).

He's going to take more from Trump than Biden in the end so I wouldn't worry about it.

You know how everyone knows that's not true? ... you never see Republicans attack Kennedy, you don't see Republicans calling him names like anti-vax weirdo, you don't see Republicans dreaming that he'll finish under 3%, you don't see Republicans calling for RFK Jr to drop out.

But you see all of that from the Democrats. The DNC even has a whole division focused specifically on trying to sabotage RFK Jr, Stein, and the others by legal actions and public messaging. The RNC isn't trying to pull off those stunts

Not true

RFK Jr.'s independent run for president draws GOP criticism and silence from national Democrats:
https://apnews.com/article/rfk-jr-presidential-campaign-independent-2024-30d940109c4956de9c81f332ec418463

[TodayJunior]

Well…. This oughta be good. Hahaha

[quesaisje]

The main importance of the Shanahan pick is any difference her money makes in terms of ballot access. After that, it's that she doesn't bring the heft of political experience or celebrity. This isn't someone who will inspire more people to take RFK Jr.'s effort seriously.

You can make the case for a marginal effect because she automatically alienates voters who have a higher propensity for preferring Trump to Biden, but the Post is getting hysterical about it.

[Eraserhead]

The fact that this guy is polling as well as he is tells you a lot about the state of American politics.

I guess most people don't know about him other than he's a Kennedy (even though is entire family backs Biden). And there's a decent junk of voters outside partisan Democrats and Republicans with a low appetite for a rematch. Nonetheless, I doubt he finishes above two or three percent of the vote (hopefully he gets out of the race before the election).

He's going to take more from Trump than Biden in the end so I wouldn't worry about it.

You know how everyone knows that's not true? ... you never see Republicans attack Kennedy, you don't see Republicans calling him names like anti-vax weirdo, you don't see Republicans dreaming that he'll finish under 3%, you don't see Republicans calling for RFK Jr to drop out.

But you see all of that from the Democrats. The DNC even has a whole division focused specifically on trying to sabotage RFK Jr, Stein, and the others by legal actions and public messaging. The RNC isn't trying to pull off those stunts

Why would Republicans call him an "anti-vax weirdo" when many of them are also anti-vax weirdos? That's precisely why he'll take more votes from Trump than Biden by the time we get to election day.

[Dr Oz Lost Party!]

Well.

Any comment from our website's resident liberal voter expert, Redban?

https://twitter.com/kaysteiger/status/1773371116637110278?s=20

[AltWorlder]

Shanahan confirmed - but buyer beware, says that guy from Turning Point USA:
https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1772644758491636176

lmao amazing, so she really fits the RFK Jr. mold of being incredibly crackpot on health issues but also a standard liberal on others. Just a weird grab bag that satisfies nobody's purity test, except for the other health issue crackpots.

[Comrade Funk]

Wow, RFK sounds terrible. Makes Biden look like an Obama-tier orator in comparison.

Pretty classic spasmodic dysphonia. 

Larry would put the kibosh on that ruse