A sign of desperation…
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. attempted to reach out to Vice President Harris about a Cabinet position if she wins the White House in November.
According to a Democrat official, Harris was less than enthusiastic about the proposal and firmly rejected RFK Jr.
“No one has any intention of negotiating with a MAGA-funded fringe candidate who has sought out a job with Donald Trump in exchange for an endorsement,” Democratic National Committee spokesperson Matt Corridoni told The Hill in a statement.
After the outreach effort, the independent candidate bashed Harris on social media platform X, saying he would not endorse her.
“VP Harris’s Democratic Party would be unrecognizable to my father and uncle and I cannot reconcile it with my values,” he wrote in a lengthy Thursday X post.
“I have no plans to endorse Kamala Harris for President. I do have a plan to defeat her,” Kennedy added later in the post.
This isn’t the first time RFK Jr. has reached out to a political campaign in hopes of scoring a future White House Administration role. In July, Trump reportedly rejected a very similar proposal from RFK Jr.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. held talks with Donald Trump’s team about a potential endorsement and job in the former president’s second administration, according to a report from The Washington Post.
The Post’s Josh Dawsey and Michael Scherer, citing four people familiar with the situation, reported on Monday that conversations about a Kennedy Jr. endorsement began shortly after the attempted assassination of Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania earlier this month.
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“I have a lot of respect for President Trump for reaching out to me. Nobody from the DNC, high or low, has ever reached out to me in 18 months. Instead they have allocated millions to try to disrupt my campaign,” Kennedy Jr. said.
According to the report from the Post, there were “concerns” among Trump advisors that Kennedy Jr. could be too problematic.
“President Trump met with RFK and they had a conversation about the issues just as he does regularly with important figures in business and politics because they all recognize he will be the next president of the United States,” a Trump spokesperson said.
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