Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claimed again on Monday that Donald Trump’s team asked him to consider being the former president’s running mate, which a Trump adviser denied.
Kennedy’s claim, which he posted to followers on X, previously Twitter, comes after several attacks by Trump on Truth Social calling Kennedy “the most radical liberal” candidate in the presidential race.
Both Republicans and Democrats are racing to define Kennedy in the general election race before his campaign can define itself, with Trump’s side calling him too liberal and President Joe Biden’s team connecting him with Trump and the MAGA movement.
“President Trump calls me an ultra-left radical. I’m soooo liberal that his emissaries asked me to be his VP. I respectfully declined the offer,” Kennedy wrote on X.
Kennedy first said that Trump’s team had approached him about joining his ticket as vice president in January. “People from the team have reached out to me,” Kennedy said in an interview with News Nation.
Trump has privately floated the idea of picking Kennedy as vice president in recent months, though advisers dismiss the idea he would ever be picked. Trump is known to workshop ideas to a variety of aides and allies, even if they never come to fruition.
Chris LaCivita, Trump’s co-campaign manager, pushed back on Kennedy’s claim, calling him a “leftie loonie that would never be approached to be on the ticket..sorry!”Kennedy and…
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