Former President Donald Trump has added former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard and independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — who just last Friday suspended his campaign in key swing states to support Trump — to his transition team.
According to a Tuesday report from The New York Times, Gabbard and Kennedy will join Trump’s sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, as well as Senator JD Vance (R-OH) as “honorary co-chairs” of his transition team, the group that will aid in the former president’s efforts to fill out his new administration if he wins re-election in November.
“I’ve been asked to go on the transition team, you know, and to help pick the people who will be running the government,” Kennedy confirmed the decision during an interview that aired on Monday.
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Trump campaign senior adviser Brian Hughes told the NYT that the former president was pleased to have the two former Democrats on board, saying that the campaign was “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 as we work to restore America’s greatness.”
Gabbard had previously endorsed Trump in the race against President Joe Biden but reiterated that support on Monday after joining him to pay her respects to the 13 service members who lost their lives in the botched Biden-Harris administration withdrawal from Afghanistan.
“I am proud to stand here before you today, whether you’re a Democrat, Republican, or an independent, if you love our country as I do, if you cherish peace and freedom as we do, I invite you to join me in doing all we can to save our country and elect President Donald J. Trump and send him back to the White House to do the tough work of saving our country and serving the people,” she said.
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Gabbard has long been a harsh critic of the Democratic National Committee, claiming that it routinely favors certain candidates while suppressing others. She left a position within the DNC in order to endorse Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the 2016 Democratic primary.
Kennedy said he would remove his name from the ballot in key swing states and encourage his supporters to vote for Trump. He argued that the Democratic Party had turned its back not only on him but on the voters when they ousted Biden from the 2024 ticket and replaced him with Vice President Kamala Harris without a vote from the people.
