Democrat presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. responded to speculation that he could become former President Donald Trump’s 2024 running mate in a statement issued on Wednesday.
While Kennedy has given interviews to Trump-friendly media outlets in recent days, the nephew of former President John F. Kennedy tried to distance himself from Trump.
“Just to quell any speculation, UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES will I join Donald Trump on an electoral ticket. Our positions on certain fundamental issues, our approaches to governance, and our philosophies of leadership could not be further apart,” Kennedy, a prominent critic of childhood vaccines, wrote on Twitter.
He did not elaborate further on how he differs from Trump. But in a Twitter post on Wednesday, Kennedy alleged that the Trump administration sold weapons to Ukraine in 2017, but he also said that his predecessor, former President Barack Obama, also provided billions of dollars to the Ukrainian military “amidst a steady barrage of hostile actions toward Russia.”…