"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 dropped out of the presidential race, and Tulsi Gabbard, a former Democratic congresswoman from Hawaii, have both thrown their support behind Trump in recent days.
This comes after Kennedy was previously on the receiving end of Trump's signature name-calling, and Gabbard had distanced herself from the Democratic Party following her own 2020 presidential bid. Kennedy, an environmental lawyer, has emerged over the past two decades as a prominent opponent of vaccine mandates, promoting widely refuted claims that childhood vaccinations cause autism and railing against what he called the "corporate capture" of the federal government by pharmaceutical companies. On August 24, Kennedy Jr suspended his presidential campaign and threw his support behind former President Donald Trump, the New York Times reported.
He announced his plans in a speech in Phoenix, saying he was withdrawing his name from the ballot in battleground states. He accused the Democratic Party of "abandoning democracy" and engaging in "continued legal warfare" against him and Trump. Meanwhile, Gabbar.