Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced his vice presidential running mate on Tuesday, and while you can be easily forgiven for not knowing the name Nicole Shanahan, the selection is one that is a clear nod to Kennedy’s left-wing roots.

Shanahan is a wealthy lawyer from the liberal hub of San Francisco, California, who, according to Kennedy’s campaign site, has worked “on behalf of honest governance, racial equality, regenerative agriculture, and children’s and maternal health.”

“‘Healthy planet, healthy humans’ is how Nicole describes the throughline of her career, which has long been centered around people, health, and the environment,” Kennedy’s website says. “She is the founder and president of Bia-Echo Foundation, a private foundation that invests in innovative changemakers who are tackling some of the world’s greatest challenges — reproductive equality and longevity, criminal justice reform, a healthy and livable planet, and more.”

If there was any doubt that Kennedy, a product of the most famous family in the history of the United States, still had an affinity for the far-left politics that his family has championed in recent decades, the choice of Shanahan to join his ticket should eliminate it all.

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This is a woman who threw thousands of dollars behind President Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign and has joined billionaire George Soros in backing radical district attorneys such as George Gascon, the district attorney of Los Angeles who has made a career out of letting criminals out of jail.

This is not a ticket that any conservative should ever consider voting for, regardless of how one might feel about Kennedy’s willingness to call out the government overreach during the COVID-19 pandemic or however nice his call for a healthier country may seem. This is a man who will never be president, and if he were, he would lead an administration that would embrace the worst impulses of the far Left.