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Trump taps RFK Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard for presidential transition team
Former President Donald Trump has added his onetime campaign rival Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard to his presidential transition team, a spokesman confirmed Tuesday.
Both Kennedy and Gabbard endorsed Trump in the past week in his race against Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee.
“As President Trump’s broad coalition of supporters and endorsers expands across partisan lines, we are proud that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard have been added to the Trump/Vance Transition team,” Trump campaign senior advisor Brian Hughes said in a statement to CNBC.
“We look forward to having their powerful voices on the team as we work to restore America’s greatness,” Hughes said.
The transition team would make staffing and policy decisions if Trump beats Harris in the Nov. 5 presidential election. The New York Times first reported that the Republican nominee planned to tap Kennedy and Gabbard for the team.
Kennedy suspended his independent presidential campaign on Friday. Gabbard, who ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in the 2020 cycle and left the party in 2022, has reportedly been helping Trump prepare for a debate against Harris.
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RFK Jr.’s embrace of Trump came just a few months after both men had excoriated each other on the campaign trail. Trump had accused the Kennedy family scion of being a “Radical Left Lunatic,” while the then-third party candidate had assailed Trump as “unhinged.”
It was not immediately clear what specific roles Kennedy and Gabbard would play in the transition team.
“I’ve been asked to go on to the transition team you know to help pick the people who will be running the government,” Kennedy in a recent interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson said.
“And I’m looking forward to that.”
Gabbard did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The two new additions join a team that already includes Trump’s adult sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, as well as his running mate, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio.
Linda McMahon, the former president and CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. and the former head of the Small Business Administration under Trump, has also been named to the transition team.
Howard Lutnick, the chairman and CEO of the financial firm Cantor Fitzgerald, is also on the transition team.
Trump Media shares hit record low as race tightens for former US president
The stock is seen by some retail traders as a bet on whether Trump would win a second term as US president.
Shares of Trump Media & Technology Group (DJT), which is majority-owned by former United States President Donald Trump, have sunk to record lows following the Republican presidential candidate’s recent return to rival social media platform X and his dwindling lead in polls for the upcoming presidential election.
Trump Media shares dropped on Tuesday to as low as $21.33, down more than 4 percent. The stock finished down 3.7 percent at $21.42, marking the eighth consecutive session of losses.
Trump’s dwindling lead in the polls and election betting markets in recent weeks has also hit the stock, which has been seen by some retail traders as a bet on whether Trump would win a second term.
“I’ve always looked at Truth Social and DJT as a voting mechanism versus an investment mechanism,” said Lou Basenese, president and chief market strategist at MDB Capital in New York. “The valuation never made sense in relation to the fundamentals.”
Earlier this month, Trump Media – whose main asset is the Truth Social app – reported a quarterly loss of $16.4m and revenue of just $837,000. The company has a market value of about $4.3bn, down from more than $8bn earlier this year.
The stock had reached an all-time high of $79.38 during its Nasdaq debut on March 26 following a merger with blank-check company Digital World Acquisition Corp.
Trump is expected to be eligible to begin cashing out his nearly 60 percent stake – or 114.75 million shares – in his social media company when the insider lockup period expires next month.
“It’s always traded in line with his odds of winning or losing, and that’s what we’re seeing now that the race is tight and the probability of him winning has narrowed. And I think it’s hitting record lows also because you’re coming up against the insider lockup,” Basenese added.
Trump began posting on the X platform last week for the first time in nearly a year, coinciding with an interview with owner Elon Musk.
Trump in recent weeks has lost his sizeable lead in polls against Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic candidate.
With 78 days to go before the November 5 vote, contracts for a Harris victory are trading at 56 cents, with a potential $1 payout, on the PredictIt politics betting platform.
Trump contracts are at 46 cents, down from as much as 69 cents in mid-July.
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