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{"id":5483,"date":"2025-01-29T18:19:17","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T18:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/bobby-may-play-nice-i-wont-rfk-jr-s-former-running-mate-threatens-senators-with-primaries\/"},"modified":"2025-01-29T18:19:17","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T18:19:17","slug":"bobby-may-play-nice-i-wont-rfk-jr-s-former-running-mate-threatens-senators-with-primaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/bobby-may-play-nice-i-wont-rfk-jr-s-former-running-mate-threatens-senators-with-primaries\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Bobby may play nice; I won\u2019t\u2019: RFK Jr.\u2019s former running mate threatens senators with primaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Nicole Shanahan, the philanthropist who was Robert F. Kennedy Jr.&#8217;s running mate last year, warned senators that a vote against his nomination as Health and Human Services secretary will result in a campaign to get them booted from office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile Bobby may be willing to play nice, I won\u2019t if you vote against him,\u201d Shanahan said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NicoleShanahan\/status\/1884402807312158781\" target=\"_blank\">video posted to X<\/a> Tuesday evening. \u201cI will personally fund challengers to primary you in your next election, and I will enlist hundreds of thousands to join me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shanahan name-dropped both Democratic and Republican senators in her message, including Sens. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/01\/24\/pete-hegseth-vote-mcconnell-006649\" target=\"_blank\">Mitch McConnell<\/a> (R-Ky.) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/01\/23\/congress\/murkowski-announces-shell-oppose-hegseth-00200264\" target=\"_blank\">Lisa Murkowski<\/a> (R-Alaska), who voted against Pete Hegseth\u2019s nomination as Defense secretary. <\/p>\n<p>She also called out Democratic Sens. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, saying she \u201ccut big checks\u201d to get the Georgia senators elected and will be watching their \u201cvotes very closely.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her message also tasked her followers to call and urge their senators to confirm Kennedy.<\/p>\n<p>Shanahan was the founder of a patent management firm. Her wealth reportedly stems from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2024\/03\/26\/nicole-shanahan-rfk-jr-2024-bio-00149015\" target=\"_blank\">her marriage to billionaire Google co-founder Serget Brin<\/a> and the pair divorced in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>She became Kennedy\u2019s running mate for his failed independent presidential bid after funneling millions into a pro-Kennedy Super PAC that helped fund a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/02\/11\/robert-kennedy-super-bowl-ad-00140903\" target=\"_blank\">February Super Bowl advertisement last year<\/a>. In the past, she has donated to notable Democratic politicians like Hillary Clinton in 2016 and former President Joe Biden in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy, who is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/01\/29\/congress\/senate-democrats-rfk-jr-hearing-00201229\" target=\"_blank\">appearing before the Senate Finance Committee<\/a> \u2014 with his confirmation uncertain \u2014 has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/politico-pulse\/2025\/01\/29\/rfk-jr-faces-senate-grilling-today-00201110\" target=\"_blank\">faced overwhelming scrutiny<\/a> over his anti-vaccine history and other unconventional health views since announced as Trump\u2019s health secretary pick. His cousin, Caroline Kennedy, also <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CBKennedy\/status\/1884294360109584589\" target=\"_blank\">recently referred to him<\/a> as a \u201cpredator.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicole Shanahan, the philanthropist who was Robert F. Kennedy Jr.&#8217;s running mate last year, warned senators that a vote against his nomination as Health and Human Services secretary will result in a campaign to get them booted from office. \u201cWhile Bobby may be willing to play nice, I won\u2019t if you vote against him,\u201d Shanahan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}