Democratic Colorado Gov. Jared Polis praised President-elect Trump for nominating Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be the subsequent secretary of the Division of Well being and Human Providers.
In a prolonged social media publish on Thursday, Polis praised Kennedy for serving to Colorado “defeat vaccine mandates” in 2019 amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
“He helped us defeat vaccine mandates in Colorado in 2019 and can assist make America wholesome once more by shaking up HHS and FDA,” he wrote.Â
“I hope he leans into private selection on vaccines reasonably than bans (which I believe are horrible, identical to mandates) however what I’m most optimistic about is taking up huge pharma and the company ag oligopoly to enhance our well being,” Polis mentioned.
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Colorado Gov. Jared Polis speaks on stage in the course of the third day of the Democratic Nationwide Conference on the United Heart on August 21, 2024 in Chicago, Illinois. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Pictures)
Trump introduced his nomination of RFK Jr. for HHS secretary Thursday afternoon, igniting a firestorm of reward and critique.
In his announcement, Trump promised that, with Kennedy main the HHS, the company can be restored because the “Gold Normal Scientific Analysis.”
“For too lengthy, Individuals have been crushed by the commercial meals complicated and drug corporations who’ve engaged in deception, misinformation, and disinformation with regards to Public Well being,” Trump wrote. “Mr. Kennedy will restore these Businesses to the traditions of Gold Normal Scientific Analysis, and beacons of Transparency, to finish the Power Illness epidemic, and to Make America Nice and Wholesome Once more!”
Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump shakes arms with Impartial presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at a marketing campaign rally on the Desert Diamond Area, Friday, Aug. 23, 2024, in Glendale, Ariz. (AP Picture/Evan Vucci)
Kennedy launched his presidential marketing campaign as a Democrat after which ultimately endorsed Trump.Â
Kennedy additionally spoke throughout Trump’s historic Madison Sq. Backyard rally final month, the place he unleashed on the present state of the Democratic Get together.
“The Democratic Get together is the occasion of struggle. It is the occasion of the CIA. You had Kamala Harris giving a speech on the Democratic conference that was written by neocons. It was belligerent, pugnacious. It talked about domination of the world by america via our weapons of struggle. It is the occasion as we speak that desires to divide Individuals. It is a occasion that’s dismantling girls’s sports activities by letting males play girls’s sports activities,” he mentioned.Â
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“It is the occasion of Wall Road. It is the occasion of Invoice Gates, who simply gave $50 million to Harris. It is the occasion, and the Harris marketing campaign may be very proud that it obtained the endorsement of fifty former CIA brokers and officers and of John Bolton and of Dick Cheney.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. introduced ‘No Spoiler’ pledge for the upcoming elections at a marketing campaign cease. RFK Jr. introduced that solely he may defeat Donald Trump within the normal election in November and demanded that President Joe Biden step apart. (Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket by way of Getty Pictures)
This is not the primary time Kennedy was thought of for a Cupboard place for a presidential administration. Again in 2008, then President-elect Obama reportedly strongly thought of naming Kennedy to guide the Environmental Safety Company, Politico reported on the time.Â
Polis has been vital of a Trump presidency. He not too long ago joined forces with Illinois Gov. J.B Pritzker to co-chair a brand new coalition known as Governors Safeguarding Democracy.
The web site names “fast-moving disinformation campaigns” and “cyberthreats” as examples of “threats to our democracy.”
“Donald Trump goes to convey individuals into his administration who’re absolute loyalists to his cult of persona and never essentially to the regulation,” Pritzker mentioned, in accordance with the New York Instances. “Final time, he didn’t actually know the place the levers of presidency had been. I believe he in all probability does now. And so I believe that the risk stays nice.”
Left: Colorado Gov. Jared Polis speaks to members of the media within the spin room following the primary vice presidential debate on the CBS Broadcast Heart in New York, on Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024; Proper: Sick. Gov. J. B. Pritzker attends the Clinton World Initiative 2024 Annual Assembly at New York Hilton Midtown on Sept. 24, 2024 in New York Metropolis. (Left: Al Drago/Bloomberg by way of Getty Pictures; Proper: John Nacion/Getty Pictures;)
Throughout an look on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Polis mentioned of Trump, “we’re gonna work with him and his administration nonetheless we will for our state.”Â
Polis echoed his sentiments, writing on X that he appears ahead to “partnering with him to actually make America wholesome once more.”
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“He’ll face sturdy particular curiosity opposition on these, however I stay up for partnering with him to actually make America wholesome once more,” Polis added.Â
Fox Information Digital’s Greg Wehner and Alex Nitzberg contributed to this report.
