Cheryl Hines, the actress wife of presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in 2024, said Thursday she fully supported her husband’s bid for the White House.
The Curb Your Enthusiasm star was spotted at the airport teasing Kennedy’s event in Boston on Wednesday, where he will 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 short Q&A as she walked to the security line. “It’s going to be fun,” she said of the Boston campaign kickoff.
Kennedy, a prominent anti-vaxxer, announced his intentions for the White House last week by submitting a statement of candidacy to the Federal Election Commission.
He is the son of the the late Attorney General and Senator Robert F. Kennedy, who was assassinated in California in 1968 during a run for president. Kennedy is the cousin of President John F. Kennedy, who was assassinated in Dallas, Texasin 1963.
Cheryl Hines, the actress wife of 2024 presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., said Thursday she fully supported her husband’s bid for the White House.
Curb Your Enthusiasm star Cheryl Hines with her husband, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who will announce a run at the White House from Boston, Massachusetts, on Wednesday
The Curb Your Enthusiasm star was spotted at the airport teasing Kennedy’s event in Boston on Wednesday, where he will 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 effort to oust Biden.
“I think his body of work will take him wherever 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 had to get to her plane when asked about her thoughts on being first lady.
Hines has previously publicly distanced herself from some of her husband’s rhetoric as he has become one of the most prominent vaccine skeptics in the United States.
He is the founder of Children’s Health Defense, identified as one of the leading sources of vaccine misinformation.
In January 2022, Kennedy stood before the Lincoln Memorial in Washington and suggested that the 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 immediately received criticism, including from the Twitter account of the Auschwitz Museumwith some on the social media network asking Hines if she supported his comments.
“My husband’s opinion is not a reflection of mine. Although we love each other, we differ on many current issues,” she noted.
She added that she agreed when a Twitter user said she should have said, “No one should compare anything to the horrors of the Holocaust. My husband was wrong to do that.’
While Hines supports her husband’s offer, 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. used to be ‘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 as special envoy to Northern Ireland after the former congressman made a failed bid for the Massachusetts Senate.
Caroline Kennedy is Biden’s ambassador to Australia.
And on his way to Ireland this week, Biden also called Ethel from RFK Jr.’s mother. to wish her a happy 95th birthday.
But while Kennedy probably won’t get much support from mainstream Democrats, he already got a nod from Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers, who showed his support in an Instagram story Tuesday night.
In addition, former Democratic presidential nominee and Representative Dennis Kucinich answers emails for Kennedy’s campaign.
The former Ohio congressman showed his support on Thursday by sending an email to his substack readers titled “We Need Another President Kennedy.”