RFK Jr. Is a Royal Pretending to Be a Commoner
He's trading on his family name, drawing millions from a banking heir to fund his campaign, and picked a wealthy running mate.
He’s just like you. Really.
Photographer: Thos Robinson/Getty Images North AmericaQuick. Name the presidential candidate who owes his political career to his last name. If you guessed Robert F. Kennedy Jr., you are correct!
Kennedy is running for president as an independent and claiming to be an outsider. But the political scion is trading on his name like any other good-ole-boy insider. He’s what the kids like to call a nepo baby. He hates “the system” yet kind of is the system, drawing millions from a conservative banking heir to fund his campaign. Oh, and he named another big donor, Nicole Shanahan, a tech millionaire (or billionaire by marriage), to be his running mate/piggybank. Talk about buying access. But yes, let’s decry the influence of money in politics!