RFK Jr. picks Oakland’s Nicole Shanahan as his running mate for third-party presidential bid

by Dan McMenamin, Bay City News March 26, 2024March 27, 2024

Independent 2024 Presidential candidate, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Vice-Presidential candidate Nicole Shanahan appear in an undated campaign photo. Shanahan, an Oakland environmental attorney, is a Bay Area native and former spouse of Google founder Sergey Brin. (Kennedy/Shanahan campaign/Kennedy24.com via Bay City News)

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is running for president in the 2024 election as an independent, announced Tuesday at a rally in Oakland that he has selected attorney Nicole Shanahan to be his running mate as vice president.

Kennedy — the son of former U.S. Sen. Robert Kennedy and nephew of President John F. Kennedy — is an environmental lawyer who is among the candidates competing with incumbent President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump in the November election.

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Dan McMenamin, Bay City News

Dan McMenamin is the managing editor at Bay City News, directing daily news coverage of the 12-county greater Bay Area. He has worked for BCN since 2008 and has been managing editor since 2014 after previously serving as BCN’s San Francisco bureau reporter. A UC Davis graduate, he came to BCN after working for a newspaper and nonprofit in the Davis area. He handles staffing, including coaching of our interns, day-to-day coverage decisions and management of the newswire.

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