The running mate of independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said she was “on the same page” with conservative pundit Tucker Carlson on just about everything.
Nicole Shanahan spoke at an event in Kittery, Maine, last Thursday, where she recounted seeing him debate Democratic strategist James Carville in New York when she was 18 years old. She also said she spent the last four days in Maine and had some “incredible experiences.”
“And so I flew out there and, you know, being [a] young, idealistic Democrat, I really thought Tucker Carlson was the bad guy. And so I went out there and I stared at him in his red bow tie, and I was like, ‘You are not it! You know, you’re gonna lose this,’” she said.
“And here we are in 2024 and I’m sitting across from Tucker, and he and I are so on the same page in every single way,” she said, adding that they “are on the same page because we have left establishment thinking once and for all.”
Kennedy announced Shanahan, a tech attorney and entrepreneur, as his pick for vice president back in March. Like Kennedy, Shanahan has also expressed skepticism of vaccines, calling for more screenings of risks for vaccinations in an interview with The New York Times earlier this year.
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Carlson also questioned the use of vaccines and criticized the Biden administration at times for trying to increase vaccinations.
The Hill has reached out to the Kennedy campaign for further comment on Shanahan’s remarks.