Robert F. Kennedy Jr. presidential campaign staff, 2024
Date: November 5, 2024  |
2024 • 2020 • 2016 |
Last updated September 19, 2023.
This page contains a select list of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s (D) national campaign staff. Staff are presented alongside their positions in the campaign, their most recent positions prior to the campaign, and their Twitter handles.
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- Overview of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s campaign
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Here are links to the candidates' staff pages:
- Joe Biden (D)
- Dean Phillips (D)
- Marianne Williamson (D)
- Ryan Binkley (R)
- Chris Christie (R)
- Ron DeSantis (R)
- Nikki Haley (R)
- Asa Hutchinson (R)
- Vivek Ramaswamy (R)
- Donald Trump (R)
Here are the links to staff pages for candidates who withdrew from the Democratic or Republican primaries:
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (D) (Kennedy withdrew from the Democratic primary and announced an independent presidential run on October 9, 2023.)
- Doug Burgum (R) (Burgum withdrew from the Republican primary on December 4, 2023.)
- Larry Elder (R) (Elder withdrew from the Republican primary on October 26, 2023.)
- Will Hurd (R) (Hurd withdrew from the Republican primary on October 9, 2023.)
- Perry Johnson (R) (Johnson withdrew from the Republican primary on October 20, 2023.)
- Mike Pence (R) (Pence withdrew from the Republican primary on October 28, 2023.)
- Tim Scott (R) (Scott withdrew from the Republican primary on November 12, 2023.)
- Corey Stapleton (R) (Stapleton withdrew from the Republican primary on October 13, 2023.)
- Francis Suarez (R) (Suarez withdrew from the Republican primary on August 29, 2023.)
Campaign staff in context
Campaign staff plays an important role in the presidential primaries. The makeup of a candidate's staff can signal the strength of their support from influential party activists and whether they are aligning with a particular faction or group within the party. Eric Appleman of Democracy in Action describes candidates' efforts to hire staffers as a "race for talent, both nationally and in key early states." He adds, "The goal is to assemble a team of top talent that can work together effectively to mobilize resources, boost the candidate and his or her message, and ultimately secure the party's nomination."[1]
Presidential candidates will typically have a national staff, which is overseen by a campaign manager and assisted by political consultants, senior advisors, professional polling firms, and key stakeholders such as interest group leaders and major financial supporters. They also build organizations in individual states that are overseen by state directors and staffed by party activists and political professionals well-versed in the particular politics of the area. Candidates often appoint elected officials and other important figures in their party's coalition as chairs of their national campaign and state-level campaigns.[1]
Kennedy campaign overview
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (D) is an author and lawyer. Kennedy announced his candidacy for the 2024 presidential election on April 5, 2023.[2] Kennedy withdrew from the Democratic primary on Oct. 9, 2023, and announced he would run as an independent.[3]
In his campaign announcement video, Kennedy said, "we will scale down the war machine and bring our resources home. We will rebuild our water systems, repair our roads, modernize our railroads, and clean up our environment. We will also clean up government and earn back the people's trust. We will end the secrecy, the censorship, and the surveillance."[4] In his announcement speech, Kennedy also criticized former President Donald Trump (R) saying, "the worst thing he did to this country, to our civil rights, economy, and middle class in this country is the [coronavirus] lockdown."[5]
National staff
The table below shows a partial list of national campaign staff members, including the campaign manager, senior advisors, political directors, communications directors, field directors, and the national press secretary. They are presented alongside their positions in the campaign, their most recent positions prior to the campaign, and their Twitter handles. To recommend additions, please email us at editor@ballotpedia.org.
- See also: Presidential election campaign managers and key staffers, 2024
| Robert F. Kennedy Jr. presidential campaign national staff, 2024 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Staff | Position | Prior experience | Twitter handle |
| Dennis Kucinich[6] | Campaign manager | 2021 mayoral candidate, Cleveland, Ohio | @Dennis_Kucinich |
| Stefanie Spear[7] | Communications director | Founder and CEO, Stellar Consulting | @StefanieSpear |
| Charles Eisenstein[8] | Senior advisor | Author | @ceisenstein |
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Democracy in Action, "Building Campaign Organizations (2019)," accessed May 10, 2019
- ↑ CNN, "Robert F. Kennedy Jr. files paperwork to run for president as a Democrat," April 5, 2023
- ↑ Associated Press, "Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will run for president as an independent and drop his Democratic primary bid," accessed October 9, 2023
- ↑ YouTube, "Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Presidential Campaign Launch Video," April 20, 2023
- ↑ C-SPAN, "Robert Kennedy Jr. Announces 2024 Presidential Campaign," April 19, 2023
- ↑ The Hill, "RFK Jr. appoints former progressive House Dem as campaign manager," May 18, 2023
- ↑ ABC News, "RFK Jr. says he’s not anti-vaccine. His record shows the opposite. It’s one of many inconsistencies," July 31, 2023
- ↑ Daily Beast, "Meet the Misfits Working to Elect RFK Jr.," August 26, 2023
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