Democratic Colorado Gov. Jared Polis praised President-elect Trump for nominating Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be the following secretary of the Division of Well being and Human Companies.
In a prolonged social media put up 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 will help make America healthy again by shaking up HHS and FDA,” he wrote.
“I hope he leans into personal choice on vaccines rather than bans (which I think are terrible, just like mandates) but what I’m most optimistic about is taking on big pharma and the corporate ag oligopoly to improve our health,” Polis stated.
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis speaks on stage through the third day of the Democratic Nationwide Conference on the United Heart on August 21, 2024 in Chicago, Illinois. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Photographs)
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 Standard Scientific Research.”
“For too long, Americans have been crushed by the industrial food complex and drug companies who have engaged in deception, misinformation, and disinformation when it comes to Public Health,” Trump wrote. “Mr. Kennedy will restore these Agencies to the traditions of Gold Standard Scientific Research, and beacons of Transparency, to end the Chronic Disease epidemic, and to Make America Great and Healthy Again!”
Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump shakes palms with Unbiased presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at a marketing campaign rally on the Desert Diamond Area, Friday, Aug. 23, 2024, in Glendale, Ariz. (AP Photograph/Evan Vucci)
Kennedy launched his presidential marketing campaign as a Democrat after which ultimately endorsed Trump.
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 Party is the party of war. It’s the party of the CIA. You had Kamala Harris giving a speech at the Democratic convention that was written by neocons. It was belligerent, pugnacious. It talked about domination of the world by the United States through our weapons of war. It’s the party today that wants to divide Americans. It’s a party that is dismantling women’s sports by letting men play women’s sports,” he stated.
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“It’s the party of Wall Street. It’s the party of Bill Gates, who just gave $50 million to Harris. It’s the party, and the Harris campaign is very proud that it received the endorsement of 50 former CIA agents 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 might 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 Photographs)
This is not the primary time Kennedy was thought-about for a Cupboard place for a presidential administration. Again in 2008, then President-elect Obama reportedly strongly thought-about naming Kennedy to steer the Environmental Safety Company, Politico reported on the time.
Polis has been vital of a Trump presidency. He just lately joined forces with Illinois Gov. J.B Pritzker to co-chair a brand new coalition known as Governors Safeguarding Democracy.
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“Donald Trump is going to bring people into his administration who are absolute loyalists to his cult of personality and not necessarily to the law,” Pritzker stated, in response to the New York Occasions. “Last time, he didn’t really know where the levers of government were. I think he probably does now. And so I think that the threat remains great.”
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: In poor health. 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 Photographs; Proper: John Nacion/Getty Photographs;)
Throughout an look on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Polis stated of Trump, “we’re gonna work with him and his administration however we can for our state.”
Polis echoed his sentiments, writing on X that he seems ahead to “partnering with him to truly make America healthy again.”
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“He will face strong special interest opposition on these, but I look forward to partnering with him to truly make America healthy again,” Polis added.
Fox Information Digital’s Greg Wehner and Alex Nitzberg contributed to this report.
