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Nicole Shanahan

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Nicole Shanahan
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Nicole Shanahan ran for vice president on a ticket with presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (I) in the 2024 presidential election. Kennedy selected Shanahan as his running mate on March 26, 2024. Kennedy withdrew from the presidential race on August 23, 2024.[1] To read more about Kennedy's campaign, click here.

Shanahan was a patent attorney and entrepreneur. She served as the president of the Bia-Echo Foundation, which invested in helping older women have children, criminal justice, and environmental issues.[2][3]

Biography

Shanahan grew up in Oakland, California. She was raised in a single-parent household by her mother, who immigrated to the United States from China.[4] Shanahan received bachelor's degrees in Asian Studies, economics, and Mandarin Chinese from the University of Puget Sound in 2007.[4][3]

She began her career working as an intellectual property paralegal and patent specialist before receiving a law degree from the Santa Clara University School of Law in 2014. After graduating, Shanahan founded ClearAccessIP, a tech company that works in patent analytics and intellectual property asset management. She sold the company in 2020.[5]

As of 2024, she servde as the president of the Bia-Echo Foundation, which invested in helping older women have children, criminal justice, and environmental issues.[2][3]

Elections

2024

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (I) selected Shanahan as his running mate on March 26, 2024. Kennedy began his campaign for the 2024 presidential election on April 5, 2023. Kennedy withdrew from the presidential race on August 23, 2024.[6] Click the links below to read more about the 2024 presidential election:


Presidential election, 2024
 
Candidate/Running mate
%
Popular votes
Electoral votes
✔
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Donald Trump/J.D. Vance (R)
 
49.8
 
77,303,568 312
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Kamala D. Harris/Tim Walz (D)
 
48.3
 
75,019,230 226
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Jill Stein (multiple running mates) (G)
 
0.6
 
861,164 0
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr./Nicole Shanahan (Independent)
 
0.5
 
756,393 0
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Chase Oliver/Mike ter Maat (L)
 
0.4
 
650,138 0
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Claudia De La Cruz/Karina Garcia (Party for Socialism and Liberation)
 
0.1
 
165,191 0
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Cornel West/Melina Abdullah (Independent)
 
0.1
 
81,084 0
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Peter Sonski/Lauren Onak (American Solidarity Party)
 
0.0
 
41,853 0
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Randall Terry/Stephen E. Broden (Constitution Party)
 
0.0
 
41,290 0
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Shiva Ayyadurai/Crystal Ellis (Independent)
 
0.0
 
28,399 0
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Richard Duncan/Mitchell Preston Bupp (Independent)
 
0.0
 
12,805 0
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Joel Skousen/Rik Combs (Constitution Party)
 
0.0
 
12,786 0
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Jay Bowman/De Bowman (Independent)
 
0.0
 
5,971 0
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Christopher Garrity/Cody Ballard (Independent)
 
0.0
 
5,294 0
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Joseph Kishore/Jerry White (Socialist Equality Party)
 
0.0
 
4,650 0
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Rachele Fruit (multiple running mates) (Socialist Workers Party)
 
0.0
 
4,118 0
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Mattie Preston/Shannel Conner (Godliness, Truth, Justice)
 
0.0
 
2,857 0
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Lucifer Everylove (no running mate) (Unaffiliated)
 
0.0
 
2,653 0
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Blake Huber/Andrea Denault (Approval Voting Party)
 
0.0
 
2,196 0
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Michael Wood/John G. Pietrowski (Prohibition Party)
 
0.0
 
1,144 0
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Vermin Supreme/Jonathan Realz (Independent)
 
0.0
 
914 0
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Laura Ebke/Trisha Butler (Liberal Party)
 
0.0
 
859 0
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William P. Stodden/Stephanie H. Cholensky (Socialist Party)
 
0.0
 
364 0
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Robert Wells Jr./Tony Jones (Independent)
 
0.0
 
359 0
  Other write-in votes
 
0.2
 
235,673 0

There were no incumbents in this race The results have been certified.

Total votes: 155,240,953

0 states have not been called.


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Footnotes

  1. ↑ YouTube, "LIVE: RFK Jr. says he’s suspending his presidential bid," August 23, 2024
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Reuters, "RFK Jr to pick lawyer Nicole Shanahan as VP in 2024 bid, WSJ reports," March 26, 2024
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 LinkedIn, "Nicole Shanahan," accessed March 26, 2024
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Politico, "55 Things You Need to Know About Nicole Shanahan," March 26, 2024
  5. ↑ IP CloseUp, "ACQUISITION OF CLEARACCESS IP BY SPANGENBERG’S IPWE COULD BE A HARBINGER OF CHANGE IN THE PATENT SPACE," April 30, 2020
  6. ↑ YouTube, "LIVE: RFK Jr. says he’s suspending his presidential bid," August 23, 2024
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