The Trump campaign confirmed that on Tuesday Robert F. Kennedy Jr.who ran as an independent until he suspended its campaign last weekand Tulsi Gabbarda former progressive Democrat who endorsed Trump on Monday, has been named to his transition team.
“As President Trump’s broad coalition of supporters and supporters expands across partisan lines, we are proud to have added Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard to the Trump/Vance Transition Team,” said Brian Hughes, senior adviser to Trump. campaign. “We look forward to having their powerful voices on the team as we work to restore America’s greatness.”
Kennedy and Gabbard will serve as honorary chairs of the transition team.
Trump also named his sons Donald Trump Jr. and Eric, along with vice presidential candidate Late. JD Vance in Ohio, to serve as honorary chairman of the team. Linda McMahonthe former head of the Small Business Administration under Trump, and Howard Lutnick, CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, are also co-chairing the transition.
Kennedy, who had been a lifelong Democrat, told Tucker Carlson on Monday that he had been asked to join the transition team. He appeared with Trump at a splashy event on Friday after he suspended his campaign. He said three issues convinced him to leave the Democratic Party and “to give my support to President Trump”: free speech, the war in Ukraine and what he called “the war on our children.”
Trump before is described Kennedy as one of the “most liberal lunatics to ever run”.
Gabbard, who pursued her own 2020 presidential bid as a Democrat, announced Monday that she is endorsing Trump. The former Democratic representative appeared with Trump at Arlington National Cemetery on the 3rd anniversary of the Abbey Gate bombing at Kabul airport during the evacuation of Afghanistan and later at a campaign stop in Detroit, Michigan.
Gabbard has also helped Trump prepare for his upcoming debate against Vice President Kamala Harris.
The New York Times first reported that Kennedy and Gabbard had joined the transition team.