Technology has been a lifelong passion
for my future vice president is important
because I also wanted a vice president
who shares my indignation
about the participation of big tech
as a partner in the censorship
and surveillance
and the information warfare
that our government
is currently waging
against the American people.
And that's
why I'm bringing on someone
with a deep inside knowledge
of how big tech uses
AI to manipulate the public.
I want to partner
with strong ideas
about how to reverse
those dire
threats to democracy and to our freedoms.
I managed to find
a technologist at the forefront of AI.
She has spent the last decade
relying on neural networks,
artificial intelligence
and cutting edge science
to identify abuses in our government.
She understands that
the health of every American
is a national security issue
and a national security risk.
Her work has proven time
and again that health drives our economy,
and it is the foundation
of our mental health,
our national happiness,
our ability to lead the world
in innovation and prosperity and peace.
I also wanted someone who is an athlete
who could help me inspire Americans
to heal, to get them back in shape.
And I'm happy to report
that my vice president is an avid surfer
who attended
who attended school
on a softball scholarship.
I want right here in Oakland.
I want someone who is battle tested,
able to withstand criticism
and the controversy
and all the government
agencies slanders and perjury is
thrown against
anyone who
embarks on a presidential campaign.
I wanted an advocate
who has seen corruption
of our regulatory agencies firsthand,
who shares my indignation about the way
it allows regulated industries
to commoditize our food, our wildlife
and our children.
I wanted someone who
would honor the traditions our nation,
as a nation of immigrants
who also understands that to be a nation,
we need to secure our borders.
I,
I wanted a partner
who is a gifted administrator,
but also possesses the gift of curiosity,
an open inquiring mind,
and the confidence
to change even her strongest opinions
in the face of contrary evidence.
I wanted someone
with a spiritual dimension and compassion
and idealism, and above all, a deep love
for the United States of America.
And I
found all of those qualities in a woman
who grew up right here in Oakland,
the daughter of immigrants
who overcame every daunting obstacle
and went on to achieve the highest ideals
of the American dream.
So that is why I'm so proud to introduce
to you
the next vice
president of the United States,
my fellow lawyer,
a brilliant scientist, technologies
a fierce warrior mom, Nicole and
oh, I'm going to tell
you a little bit about before
we bring her out.
We're going to see a video
and a close personal story
began in Oakland.
She was the daughter
of impoverished immigrants.
She grew up on food stamps and welfare
in the city,
beset by many,
many other unique challenges,
all of which
she overcame
her very, very American journey,
took her to a career as a patent attorney
and as a Silicon Valley tech entrepreneur
and as a Stanford University fellow.
Like many of us, Nicole assumed
our government
was working for our people,
and our defense
and intelligence agencies wanted peace,
that public health agencies
wanted us to be healthy at the USDA,
supported wholesome foods
and family farms
at the EPA would stand up for clean air
and clean water
at the Fed, wanted prosperous America,
that the Democratic Party
was on the side of the middle class.
The working poor and Main Street
small businesses
that scientists were incorruptible
and that
the science was a search
for an exalted search for the truth,
and that the President
of the United States
could always be counted on to defend
free speech.
I too, used to believe those things.
Do you remember those days?
And she'll tell you that
she now understands
that the defense agencies
work for the military industrial complex,
that health agencies work for Big pharma
at the USDA, works for Big AG,
and the processed food cartels at
the EPA is in cahoots with the polluters,
that the scientists can be mercenaries,
that government officials
sometimes act as censors,
and that the Fed works for Wall Street
and allows millionaire bankers down
on Main Street and the American worker.
And that's why Nicole and I both left
the Democratic Party.
Our values didn't
change, but the Democratic Party did
the things that we love
are still the same.
We love our families,
our children, and our faith.
We love clean air and clean water
and productive soils and good food.
We love the wilderness
and our purple mountains, majesty.
And above all, we love our country.
We
we want America
to live up to her highest ideals.
We want her
to be an exemplary nation again,
a global leader in freedom,
opportunity and responsible government.
We want America to be a peacemaker,
a moral authority.
We want our children to grow up as I did,
and a country
for which they feel love and pride.
We want them to feel safe
and have every opportunity
for dignity, prosperity and community.
We want them to have confidence
in their futures.
We want them to have the best education.
We want America to be friendly to farmers
and entrepreneurs.
We want America to honor its
veterans and its teachers.
We want
scientists to stand
up for science and for truth.
And we want our government
to defend our right to free speech.
Nicole
and I share all of these values.
And you know what?
Despite the artificially
orchestrated divisions,
nearly all Americans
share the same values we do.
And I'm grateful
that Nicole
has put her self-interest aside
and made the momentous
and very, very difficult decision
to embark with me
on this extraordinary crusade
to win back our country.
And
I was most importantly looking
you were listening to robert
f kennedy
Jr announcing his running mate,
Nicole Shanahan.
He is there in Oakland, California,
where Shanahan grew up.
He is Boris
trying to get on the ballot in 23 states
where it is mandatory that he has a vice
presidential candidate.
So as they try to collect signatures
and get on those ballots,
that is that is why he's announcing
so early.
This is typically early
in the veepstakes process.
Yeah, absolutely.
He mentioned that he was looking for
someone who had a passion for health,
for healthy food,
good soils, someone who had indignation
that he shares against big tech,
a passion
for freedom of speech,
as he spouted
several dubious claims
during his speech specifically
about federal agencies.
Others sprinkled in there as well.
No mention of the fact
that he needs a vice president
to get on the ballot in November
and also her very deep pockets.
She spent about $4 million
helping him to get the Super Bowl
ad on the air.
That was evocative
of his family of of JFK
when he ran in the 1960s.
He did mention his father giving a story
about the importance
of listening and enacting public policy.
Nevertheless, RFK Junior
there making his announcement
as Nicole
Shanahan becomes
his running mate,
a third party candidate who has gathered
significant support in some key states,
a CNN poll had him in the mid-teens
in the battleground states
of Pennsylvania and Michigan last week.
So something to watch for there.