Democrat Governor Backs RFK Jr. for US Health Secretary Position

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis is supporting Robert F. Kennedy Jr. after the latter was announced by President-elect Donald Trump as the nominee for U.S. health secretary, although Polis later backtracked on his praise for Kennedy’s work on vaccines. Polis, a Democrat, wrote in a Nov. 14 post on social media platform X that he’s excited about the appointment. Kennedy “helped us defeat vaccine mandates in Colorado in 2019 and will help make America healthy again by shaking up” the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Polis 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.”...