Former President Donald Trump is a huge fan of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., now that the former environmental lawyer, talk show host, and conspiracy theorist has abandoned his independent presidential campaign and thrown his support behind Trump. In fact, Democratic strategist Paul Begala speculated Monday on CNN, Trump could be thinking about swapping him in as running mate.
It wasn't immediately clear if that was possible. But, Begala, said, it wouldn't be for lack of Trump's dissatisfaction with his current running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), who has become one of the least popular running mates in modern history.
"So Paul, last time you were here with James [Carville] and you predicted that Trump could [dump] J.D. Vance as his running mate," said anchor Erin Burnett. "Two days ago, Trump actually shared a post on social media and the post had a photo of him with Kennedy, and it was the words were, 'We're the strongest anti-establishment ticket in American history.' And you are honing in on the word 'ticket' and not just saying that he could replace Vance, but to — he could replace him with Kennedy."
"Watch your back, J.D.," said Begala bluntly.
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"Yeah, I watched that whole thing and look, Bobby Kennedy had a parasitic brain-eating worm in his head and the worm died of starvation, okay," Begala continued. "So I just think that we ought to give him like a lot of leeway because I think he's a bit eccentric."
"I don't think he adds much to Trump, honestly," said Begala, noting that the two of them already attract the same basic kinds of anti-vaccine conspiracy theorists. "But Bobby Kennedy started this race about 20 percent. He's about 2 now. So on current trajectory, by Election Day, he'll be about negative six. He's a diminishing asset, but I think Trump really likes him and J.D. Vance has really not — I think he's on milk cartons now. We just don't see him."
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