Former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has appointed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard to his transition team. This team will assist Trump in choosing personnel and crafting policy for a potential second term in the White House.
“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,” Trump campaign senior adviser Brian Hughes said in a statement.
“We look forward to having their powerful voices on the team [as] we work to restore America’s greatness,” Hughes added.
Robert Kennedy Jr., who recently exited the presidential race, and Tulsi Gabbard, a former Democratic congresswoman from Hawaii, have recently expressed support for Trump. This development follows Kennedy’s past experience with Trump’s name-calling and Gabbard’s separation from the Democratic Party after her own 2020 presidential campaign.
Kennedy, an environmental lawyer, has become a prominent critic of vaccine mandates over the past two decades, promoting widely debunked claims that childhood vaccinations cause autism and criticising what he describes as the “corporate capture” of the federal government by pharmaceutical companies.
On August 24, Kennedy Jr. suspended his presidential campaign and endorsed former President Donald Trump, according to the New York Times. He announced his withdrawal from the ballot in battleground states during a speech in Phoenix, accusing the Democratic Party of “abandoning democracy” and engaging in “continued legal warfare” against both him and Trump.
Meanwhile, Gabbard, a former US congresswoman who left the Democratic Party in 2022, has publicly endorsed former President Donald Trump for the upcoming November presidential election, as reported by The Hill.
“This administration has us facing multiple wars on multiple fronts in 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 am committed to doing all that I can to send President Trump back to the White House, where he can once again serve us as our commander-in-chief,” she added.
Notably, Gabbard’s 2020 presidential campaign in the Democratic primary was unsuccessful. Following the end of her campaign, she left Congress, departed from the Democratic Party, and participated in events such as the Conservative Political Action Conference, as reported by The Hill.