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Independent presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr.’s running mate has donated $8 million to the campaign to bolster ballot access in the lead-up to November.
Attorney Nicole Shanahan, whom Kennedy picked as his vice president in March, gave another $8 million last month to assist the campaign’s efforts in getting on the ballot in all 50 states.
The Silicon Valley attorney announced the donation while speaking at a comedy show in Tennessee.
“This isn’t just about funding our own campaign,” she said in a statement following the Tennessee fundraising event, which was hosted at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville.
“We want to liberate presidential elections from the grip of the existing two-party duopoly, and revitalize American democracy.”
Shanahan, who has slowly ramped up her campaigning, previously donated $2 million to the campaign just one day after being tapped by Kennedy in late March.
She has previously supported Kennedy’s White House bid with direct campaign donations, according to Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings, and also gave $4 million to help fund the Super Bowl ad released by American Values 2024, an outside group backing the independent candidate.
Kennedy’s independent campaign intends to be on the ballot in all 50 states before Election Day and hopes to have its candidate on the debate stage with President Biden and former President Trump.
