“Curb Your Enthusiasm” star Cheryl Hines isn’t thrilled with reports that her husband, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is considering ending his presidential bid and endorsing Donald Trump Friday.
ABC News reported Kennedy plans to voice support for the Republican Party nominee Friday when he makes an announcement about his campaign’s future. According to The Hill’s Senior Political Correspondent, a source inside Kennedy’s campaign said Hines doesn’t want her husband to endorse Trump.
While Kennedy is only polling around 5% as an independent candidate, that’s more than Harris‘ lead on Trump in most polls. It’s not known how many Kennedy supporters would follow his lead should he join forces with the 78-year-old GOP candidate.
Trump has indicated there could be a place for Kennedy in his administration.
“It would be so good for [me] and so good for you,” Trump said in a recorded phone call to Kennedy last month.
Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump walks toward the stage to speak at a rally at the Brick Breeden Fieldhouse at Montana State University on August 9, 2024 in Bozeman, Montana. (Photo by Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images)
The pair shares a fanbase with a predilection for conspiracy theories on topics including vaccines, which appears to be one of the “many” issues on which Kennedy and Hines agree to disagree.
When the couple hosted a 2021 holiday party during the pandemic, invitations called for attendees to be vaccinated, even though Kennedy is a COVID vaccine skeptic. He said the wording on the invitation was Hines’ idea.
And when Kennedy, 70, compared vaccine mandates to the Nazi Holocaust — a comment he later hedged — Hines, 58, felt a need to distance herself from his words.
“My husband’s opinions are not a reflection of my own,” she posted on social media. “While we love each other, we differ on many current issues.”
The pair married in 2014.
While the Kennedy family is deeply rooted in Democratic politics, RFK Jr. recently denounced the party that put his uncle John F. Kennedy in the White House in 1961. Numerous members of his own family have voiced opposition to his “dangerous” candidacy.
