Cheryl Hines, the actress wife of 2024 presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy Jr., said Thursday that she fully supported her husband’s White House bid.
The Curb Your Enthusiasm star was spotted at the airport and teased Kennedy’s event in Boston on Wednesday where he’ll officially announce his plans to run against President Joe Biden in the Democratic primary.
‘I support my husband 100 percent and I love my husband,’ the actress said in a brief Q&A as she walked to the security line. ‘It’s going to be fun,’ she said of the Boston campaign kick-off event.
Kennedy, a prominent anti-vaxxer, made his White House intentions known last week by filing a statement of candidacy with the Federal Election Commission.
He’s the son of the late Attorney General and Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, who was assassinated in California in 1968 during a run for the presidency. Kennedy is the nephew of President John F. Kennedy, who was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, in 1963.
Cheryl Hines, the actress wife of 2024 presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy Jr., said Thursday that she fully supported her husband’s White House bid
Curb Your Enthusiasm star Cheryl Hines with her husband, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who will announce a White House run Wednesday from Boston, Massachusetts
The Curb Your Enthusiasm star was spotted at the airport and teased Kennedy’s event in Boston on Wednesday where he’ll officially announce his plans to run against President Joe Biden in the Democratic primary
Hines was asked if Kennedy’s name would help him in his bid to oust Biden.
‘I think his body of work will get him everywhere he needs to go,’ she replied.
The actress laughed when asked if RFK Jr. was already thinking about running mates.
‘No,’ she said.
And said she needed to get to her aircraft when asked her thoughts about being first lady.
Hines has previously publicly distanced herself from some of her husband’s rhetoric as he’s become one of the most prominent vaccine skeptics in the United States.
He’s the founder of Children’s Health Defense, identified as one of the top sources of misinformation about vaccines.
In January 2022, Kennedy stood in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington and suggested COVID vaccine mandates were worse than what the Jews faced during the Holocaust.
‘Even in Hitler’s Germany, you could hide in the attic like Anne Frank did,’ Kennedy said.
He was promptly criticized, including from the Twitter account of the Auschwitz Museum, with some on the social media network asking Hines if she supported his comments.
‘My husband’s opinions are not a reflection of my own. While we love each other, we differ on many current issues,’ she noted.
She added that she agreed when one Twitter user said she should have said, ‘No one should compare anything to the horrors of the Holocaust. My husband was wrong to do so.’
While Hines supports her husband’s bid, other members of the Kennedy clan are not expected to do so.
In 2019, Kennedy’s brother and sister, Joseph P. Kennedy II and Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, and niece Maeve Kennedy McKean wrote an op-ed for Politico saying that RJK Jr.’ was ‘tragically wrong about vaccines.’
Biden also has a good rapport with members of the Kennedy family.
He appointed RFK Jr.’s nephew Joe Kennedy III to serve as Special Envoy for Northern Ireland after the former congressman mounted an unsuccessful bid for Massachusetts Senate.
Caroline Kennedy is Biden’s ambassador to Australia.
And en route to Ireland this week, Biden also gave RFK Jr.’s mother’s Ethel a call to wish her a happy 95th birthday.
But while Kennedy won’t likely get a lot of support from mainstream Democrats, he already got a nod from Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers, who indicated his support in an Instagram story Tuesday night.
Additionally, former Democratic presidential candidate and Rep. Dennis Kucinich is answering emails for Kennedy’s campaign.
The former Ohio congressman hinted at his support Thursday by sending out an email to his substack readers entitled, ‘We Need Another President Kennedy.’
