Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has added Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who suspended his independent presidential campaign last week, and former Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard to his transition team. Gabbard also formally endorsed Trump on Monday.
“As President Trump’s broad coalition of supporters and endorsers expands across partisan lines, we are proud that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard have been added to the Trump/Vance Transition team. We look forward to having their powerful voices on the team was we work to restore America’s greatness,” senior Trump campaign adviser Brian Hughes said in a recent statement.
Kennedy suspended his independent campaign last Friday, announcing at a press conference that he would withdraw his name from the ballots in ten battleground states, where his presence could have benefited Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris. While urging his supporters to back Trump in these key states, Kennedy encouraged them to vote for him in other areas where his name remains on the ballot.
Gabbard, who left the Democratic Party to become an independent two years after her time in Congress, endorsed Trump at a campaign event on Monday. Appearing together in Detroit at the annual meeting of the National Guard Association, Gabbard commended Trump for his stance on war, contrasting it with the policies of the Biden administration.
“This administration has us facing multiple wars on multiple fronts and regions around the world, and closer to the brink of nuclear war than we ever have been before,” Gabbard said. “This is one of the main reasons why I’m committed to doing all that I can to send President Trump back to the White House.”
Gabbard previously spoke at a Mar-a-Lago fundraiser for Trump in March. Around that time, Trump indicated that Gabbard was among the potential candidates on his short list for a vice-presidential nominee.
Stewart Flood:
Lowest devil worshipper? So you’re saying or implying Trump is Satan, or that there are a bevy of Satanists employed by Trump?
Of course you don’t think TDS exists if you’re afflicted. You’re completely correct about transition team grift. You’re completely wrong about everyone who would be in the administration being already chosen. Trump makes decisions at the last minute. He has constant staff churn because he constantly changes his mind about the decisions he already made. If he was Satan, or Jesus as the other side of the TDS coin implies if not says, he’d be a lot more organized. He’s not.
Trump has things he’s good at, like giving voice to the resentments a lot of people feel over a whole bunch of kinds of crap that has been going on long enough that anything else seems abnormal to a lot of people. He has things he’s bad at, like managing anything of any sort.
Your idea of an extremely planned satanic conspiracy bears no resemblance to any Trump operation I or anyone I know has ever seen. It’s just not how any Trump organizations ever operated, from real estate to brand management to show business to politics and government. He’s 78 years old and has been mismanaging organizations of various sorts for half a century ., why would his modus operandi suddenly become dramatically different than it always was?
“That’s for “somebody” who somehow hasn’t commented here yet, but a week ago was doing his best to spin, at least at BAN.”
Sorry, I don’t know who you’re talking about. Lately, commenting at BAN is swamped by troll(s) who reflexively claim that everyone who isn’t them is some dude named Robert Stock whose name I’ve only ever seen there (and rarely actually posts, mostly comments about than by him) and or a communist, retard, troll, etc.
Most of the comments, if not by actual retards or communists, are by trolls pretending to be. Others either are or pretend to be Nazis and racists. They’re probably young men who can’t get laid, since any time a woman’s name comes up whether as a commenter or subject of discussion, there are idiotic sexual comments about her appearance, alleged promiscuity, and or being a man pretending to be a woman.
Then there’s AZ, which appears to either be a bot or someone doing their absolute best to impersonate one, and all the people that can’t refrain from reflexive responses to it. Since it doesn’t engage in actual human conversation, why would anyone but a troll or idiot repeatedly engage it?
The signal to noise ratio there is too low to engage.
Gadfly,
Whether brain worm / dead bear dude dropped out is, a la f***book, “complicated.” He has suspended active campaigning, but what active campaigning was he doing before he suspended? I’ve caught him and Miss Nicole more frequently while channel surfing at the extended stay since he suspended than in any equivalent time span since maybe April or May.
He remains on the ballot in most of the states where he managed to get on, and is simultaneously applying or suing to get on the ballot and get off the ballot, depending on the state.
Kennedy managed to figure out what “no” labels didn’t – how to run a potus campaign which spends multiple millions of “dollars” on nothing but ballot access lawyers , ballot access contractors and (I’m guessing) fundraising contractors, even after having actually nominated a ticket. The only difference with “no” labels is that last part.
All that spending, family name, net worth of running mate and ballot access fruits of that spending earned him some media coverage, which was mostly spent on those same topics. There was and will be no actual campaign to speak of. There were no issue ads being broadcast anywhere that I saw. I don’t expect to see any either. He failed to qualify for major party debates and refused to participate in minor/independent debates even when opportunities were presented. If there were any public speeches where other attendees outnumbered press, I missed it. I don’t expect that to change either.
Any in person outreach that occurred was strictly in the form of ballot access signature gathering, and little of that was done by his actual supporters – mostly nomadic mercenary petition subcontractors, as typical. Therefore, the vast majority of signers and would be signers didn’t even hear Kennedy’s name, much less his alleged ideas.
There were lots of “campaign volunteers,” but no real campaign structure. Volunteers were signed up, and maybe even given lists of things that they could do, but no real training on how, or follow up to see what if anything they actually did, incentives for performance (praise, recognition, tote bags, whatever) so most likely the vast majority did nothing and the vast majority of the rest did pretty much nothing.
None of this changed or seems likely to change.
So, define dropped out. You have to be in something to drop out of it. The new Mexico report or any other news source you might cite, regardless of the number of such copycat cites (how most reporter’s do most of their work these days – when they’re being below average lazy, they might reword it) isn’t any better at deciphering to what extent he did or didn’t drop out than BAN, IPR,or for that matter you or me.
It wasn’t much of a campaign to begin with, and many people correctly, as it turns out, inferred that its real purpose was to try to help Trump.
What changed when he quasi dropped out?
1) his ballot access lawyers in some states switched from trying to get on the ballot to trying to get off it, while continuing to trying to get on in others
2) a small handful of states took him off without lawyers having to be involved, while many more are keeping him on
3) “suspended” already non-existent campaign activity
4) got a small bump in coverage and maybe, maybe not donors as a result
5) admitted what many people thought, that the campaigns purpose was to try to help Trump, while denying that it has been the goal from the start
Is that dropping out or not? It depends on how you look at it .
Similarly: is Terry running for president or pretending to as cover for a strategy that does not appear to be working? Depends on vantage.
Do libertarians have a presidential ticket? They nominated one, and put it on the ballots in over 40 states now – more than I expected – but their national and state committees pretty openly support Trump by way of Kennedy much more than their own nominated ticket.
Such questions are not answered by media headlines. The people who write those reports are not experts, certainly not unbiased, don’t do investigation of any real sort, and aren’t mind readers. They’re generally lazy, busy with other priorities, fairly ignorant, and or highly biased, most often all of those.
Why would I comment here, when I have nothing to say about the article, nor the comments until now? Unlike yourself, I am not addicted to hearing myself speak.
Kennedy did not drop out of the race. And amount of wishful thinking on the part of uniparty mouthpieces and yourself will change that:
“My name will remain on the ballot in most states. If you live in a blue state, you can vote for me without harming or helping president Trump or vice-president Harris. In red states the same will apply. I encourage you to vote for me.”
Your prediction was wrong. Just like you were wrong about Kennedy seeking a quid pro quo from Trump and Harris. And just like I was wrong that Kennedy wouldn’t be stupid enough to endorse Trump. I am willing to admit that I was wrong, you clearly are not. Grow up.
And, after RFK “dropped out” … as has been reported by many news sites like this:
“Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. will remain on New Mexico’s general election ballot, despite dropping out of the presidential race.”
https://nmpoliticalreport.com/issues/elections/rfk-jr-will-remain-on-the-ballot-in-nm
That’s for “somebody” who somehow hasn’t commented here yet, but a week ago was doing his best to spin, at least at BAN.
May be a duplicate comment. This place is acting up for me again.
And, after RFK “dropped out” … as has been reported by many news sites like this:
“Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. will remain on New Mexico’s general election ballot, despite dropping out of the presidential race.”
https://nmpoliticalreport.com/issues/elections/rfk-jr-will-remain-on-the-ballot-in-nm
That’s for “somebody” who somehow hasn’t commented here yet, but a week ago was doing his best to spin, at least at BAN.
The transition team normally is the consolation prize – equivalent to a most liked award at a beauty contest. In a Trump administration, it is the booby prize. And it is also where Trump commits some of tye first of hus financial crimes against the people. Look at what they did in 2016, stealing money intended for the inauguration. As I recall, at least one of his fake organizations was shut down over it later. But with people like Kennedy and Gabard around, he now has new people that can take the fall for his crimes.
For all of Kennedy’s blathering about having a position in the administration, this is a do nothing assignment. Everyone who is going to work in the administration, from the lowest devil worshiper to the altar boys catering to trump’s every whim and carrying him diet coke on silver platters has already been chosen.
So yes, this is grifting.
Grifters gonna grift.