Donald Trump has named his former rival, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and Tulsi Gabbard, a former Democrat who has also now endorsed him, to his transition team that would help the former president select personnel and develop policy for a possible 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.”
Kennedy, who initially attempted to run for president as a Democrat, dropped his independent bid last week and endorsed Trump.
“I’ve been asked to go onto the transition team and to help pick the people who will be running the government,” Kennedy said in an interview with Tucker Carlson that was posted on X on Tuesday.
Gabbard, a former congresswoman from Hawaii who ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020 before leaving the party in 2022, threw her support behind Trump on Monday, appearing with him at a National Guard Association event in Detroit.
The Republican’s absorption of Kennedy into the ranks of his campaign is a notable — if unsurprising — about-face for Trump after he and his team worked to discredit Kennedy as a “liberal lunatic” during the height of the independent candidate’s polling earlier this year.
Kennedy and Gabbard join a transition team that includes co-chair Linda McMahon, the founder and former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment who was the administrator of the Small Business Administration during Trump’s first term, and Howard Lutnick, the billionaire CEO of the Wall Street firm Cantor Fitzgerald who served as chair of the America First Policy Institute, a Washington-based conservative think tank. Trump’s running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, is an honorary chair, as are his sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump.
Trump taps presidential race drop-out RFK Jr. for his transition team
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