The Hill Reports: There is nothing remotely normal or conventional about this presidential election. Alice in Wonderland would feel right at home bouncing about between the fantastical issues plaguing the Biden and Trump campaigns. For the current president, voters worry about Biden’s age, perceived cognitive issues, his son Hunter’s legal and perception problems, growing policy failures, and a country and world going more sideways by the day. For the previous president, it’s hard for some voters to unsee the FBI raid on Trump’s home in Florida, his mug shot, multiple indictments by Democratic prosecutors and district attorneys, trial dates and the greater “lawfare” campaign being purposefully amplified by some in the media.  With that as background, it is no surprise that approximately 70 percent of voters indicate they do not want Biden or Trump as their next president. Enter — stage middle — Robert F. Kennedy Jr.  RFK Jr. has a higher favorability rating than both Biden and Trump. He is also the favorite of voters under 35 years old, as well as independents, and is gaining rapidly among minorities — three constituencies that Kennedy now has a chance to grow substantially thanks to his selection yesterday of Nicole Shanahan as his running mate. The 38-year-old Shanahan has a remarkable life story. She grew up on welfare, is Asian American, a lawyer, the California-based founder and president of Bia-Echo Foundation — a nonprofit that issues grants for issues including reproductive rights, equality, criminal justice reform and the environment — is a single mother to a daughter with autism and is the former wife of Google cofounder Sergey Brin. Read the full article here.   If you resonate with this message please subscribe to our newsletter to learn more.

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CNN Reports: CNN's Gary Tuchman speaks with Virginia Beach supporters of Robert Kennedy Jr., discussing why they plan to vote for him in the 2024 presidential election. If you resonate with this message please subscribe to our newsletter to learn more.

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Newsweek Reports: Nicole Shanahan, a patent attorney specializing in technology and the former wife of Google founder Sergey Brin, has been named Robert F. Kennedy Jr's. vice presidential running mate. "I want somebody who will look out for young people and not treat them as if they're invisible," Kennedy said in an interview with Newsweek. "She's just 38 years old; she comes from technology and understands social media." Kennedy made the announcement Tuesday at an event in Oakland, where Shanahan grew up in poverty with her mother, who emigrated from China, and her father, who had a substance abuse problem and suffered from mental disorders. Shanahan, a lifelong Democrat, told Newsweek she has grown disillusioned with the party over what she sees as a lack of progress on environmental issues and children's health, and because it has helped to rack up a $34 trillion national debt and has no strategy to secure the southern border. Read the full article here.   If you resonate with this message please subscribe to our newsletter to learn more.

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The Washington Post Reports: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announced Tuesday that tech lawyer and megadonor Nicole Shanahan would join his independent presidential ticket as his running mate, a move that would provide Kennedy with more ballot access as he pursues his long-shot bid for the White House. Kennedy, 70, announced his pick in her California hometown, miles from the hub of the technology industry. Shanahan, 38, has grown to prominence as a Bay Area lawyer with deep Silicon Valley ties and was previously married to billionaire Google co-founder Sergey Brin. “I need someone with a spiritual dimension and compassion and idealism and, above all, a deep love for the United States of America,” Kennedy said. “I found all of those qualities in a woman who grew up right here in Oakland, daughter of immigrants who overcame every daunting obstacle and went on to achieve the highest ideals of the American Dream.” Read the full article here.   If you resonate with this message please subscribe to our newsletter to learn more.

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Time Magazine Reports: In 2024, there’s nothing like the Kennedy campaign—a bizarre, freewheeling effort that has capitalized on broad dissatisfaction with both President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump. Kennedy often polls in double digits, positioning him as potentially the most popular third-party candidate since Ross Perot in 1992—if he can manage to qualify for key state ballots. In a Wall Street Journal poll in December, almost 1 in 5 Americans said they would vote for a third-party candidate in 2024. "The one thing everyone in America can agree on is that they don't want this rematch between Trump and Biden," says Amaryllis Fox Kennedy, the candidate’s daughter-in-law, who took over as campaign manager last October, days after he abandoned his bid for the Democratic nomination to run as an independent. Read the full article here. If you resonate with this message please subscribe to our newsletter to learn more.

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Politico Reports: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s independent presidential bid is largely powered by a wave of new donors who aren’t political — or at least haven’t been in years. Kennedy’s deep ties with anti-vaccine and environmental activism coupled with his campaign’s dedication to new media is engaging people like Michelle Frank, a yoga studio owner who is not registered to vote but has already chipped a few hundred dollars to Kennedy’s campaign. “I haven’t voted in about over 15 to 20 years, actually,” Frank told POLITICO. After hearing Kennedy on a podcast, Frank hosted an aerial yoga class for local Kennedy supporters at her studio outside of Austin, Texas, attracting a small group of fellow political neophytes. She said one attendee came to the event because of the Super Bowl ad, paid for by the super PAC American Values 2024, that aired the week before. “Knowing that he has this great, this most pure intention like his uncle and his dad did. I feel like the purity and the intention is really what drew me to him,” she said. Irregular and first-time voters can help decide elections. They helped propel Trump to victory in 2016. And interviews with some of Kennedy’s recent backers reveal an electorate that’s both newly engaged with politics and turned off by a rematch between President Biden and former President Donald Trump. Read the full article here. If you resonate with this message please subscribe to our newsletter to learn more.

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Featured in The Hill: The Biden White House and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) — which some believe to be the enforcement arm of the Biden White House — have been aware of the presidential campaign of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. for some time. First, since April 2023, when he announced his run for president in Boston as a Democrat challenging the incumbent. Next, with his switch to an independent candidate on Oct. 9, 2023, at Independence Hall in Philadelphia. While aware of him, much of the Biden and DNC gameplan seemed to be either an attempt to ignore his budding candidacy or mock it in passing while falsely smearing Kennedy when possible. Now — and quite suddenly — that gameplan seems to have morphed into full attack mode against RFK Jr. Why? Team Biden and the DNC realize that the president seems to be losing more ground by the week. More than that, they also understand that presidential elections are won by shaving an eighth of a percent off of one district, a quarter of a percent off of one county and half of a percent off of one major city. To them, Kennedy’s razor surely appears to be getting larger and sharper by the day. Read the full op-ed here. If you resonate with this message please subscribe to our newsletter to learn more.

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Fox News Reports: 'The Five' co-hosts react to Democrats reaction to Robert Kennedy, Jr. running against President Biden. If you resonate with this message please subscribe to our newsletter to learn more.

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Axios reports: Independent presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. wants to engage Hispanic voters by using a version of his uncle JFK's historic "Viva Kennedy!" platform — a model that gave birth to the modern Latino vote. Why it matters: RFK Jr. is on the ballot in at least four states and is seeking access in others, such as Georgia and Arizona, where small political shifts among Latinos could swing a tight presidential election. About 36.2 million U.S. Latinos are eligible to vote this year. Hispanics are more diverse and politically independent than when President John F. Kennedy launched his historic outreach program in 1960. Driving the news: RFK Jr. will kick off a new Viva Kennedy! effort on March 30 in Los Angeles, says Rob Lucero, who is directing the effort. Read the full article here.

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CNN reports: In Randi Kaye’s election series for CNN, “The 53%,” she speaks with undecided women voters in Arizona about the issues that matter to them in the 2024 election. The women share their disappointment with the choice between Biden and Trump, as well as their interest in Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s independent run.  Watch the full clip here:

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NPR reports: With many Americans unhappy at the prospect of a rematch between President Biden and former President Donald Trump, voters may be more open than usual to third-party and independent candidates come fall. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is among the candidates hoping to appeal to voters looking for alternatives to Biden and Trump. But first, he actually needs to get on ballots, a complicated and expensive state-by-state undertaking. "I think it's sometimes overlooked the number of things you need," said Michael Arno, who runs a petition signature gathering company and has worked on ballot access for various independent candidates and the No Labels effort. "If you're going to run against the two major political parties, you have to operate like you're one of the two major political parties." Read the full article here. If you resonate with this message please subscribe to our newsletter to learn more.

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Last Real Indians reports: On Friday, March 8, the Coalition of Large Tribes (COLT) hosted Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to hear of his presidential campaign and to give tribal leaders a chance to question his commitment to Indian Country. More than 50 tribal leaders heard directly from Mr. Kennedy, where he shared his upbringing including his family’s relationships with Indigenous people and aspects of his campaign including his support to strengthen tribal sovereignty. Kennedy announced his candidacy as an independent for the President of the United States on October 9, 2023 and has since campaigned throughout the country. Friday’s meeting was Kennedy’s first official visit to speak with tribal leaders while running for the presidency. “I know there’s a lot of political leaders over the years that have come in front of Tribes and made promises of what they’re going to do when they get elected,” said Robert Kennedy Jr. in the beginning of his presentation. “I wanted to talk about my history of commitment to Tribal issues and Indians across the country.” Kennedy spoke of his family’s trips to the Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation, the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Hopi, and Navajo reservations while he was a child. “This was very much a part of my youth,” he said. “My father loved this country and loved American democracy and thought we should be a role model for the rest of the world, but he also believed the treatment of Indigenous people in this country—the Native Americans, the ones who above all others can call themselves American—that that was the original sin of our country.” “This inspired my life and has continued to in my adult years,” he said during Friday’s COLT meeting. “My father and my uncle, John F. Kennedy, Jr., would talk a lot about the Choctaws during the Great Irish Famine in 1848 when over a million Irish starved to death and my grandparents on both sides of my family were a part of the flood of Irish that left that year and came to Boston.” The Choctaws raised monies, $170, during the famine and sent to people in Ireland who were starving to death. “My father thought that was something we shouldn’t forget,” Kennedy said of his father. Read the full article here. If you resonate with this message please subscribe to our newsletter to learn more.

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