At a campaign rally held Tuesday in Oakland, California, Kennedy welcomed Shanahan to his independent ticket and an uphill bid to win the white House.
Shanahan, 38, joined Kennedy as a running mate even though she dropped her support for him earlier this year when he decided to run as an independent, according to a Fox News story.
Robert Knight, a columnist for The Washington Times, tells AFN he can’t figure out what Kennedy was thinking by selecting a Democrat donor.
“She's not going to win any votes for him,” Knight predicts. “The real left-wingers like her are going to vote for the Biden ticket.”
If Kennedy’s campaign was hoping to peel off libertarian-minded Trump voters and far-left Biden voters, Knight says the selection of Shanahan fails to woo either of those voting blocks to his side.
“Now he's placed himself squarely in the Looney Tune left-wing camp with this nominee,” Knight says.
