Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, who previously criticized Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for backing policies that could bring back deadly diseases, took to social media Thursday to laud Donald Trump‘s decision to name Kennedy as the next secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
The Democratic governor said he was “excited” by Trump’s nomination, despite Polis touting the day before the creation of the Governors Safeguarding Democracy organization as a playbook for other governors to push back against Trump’s right-wing administration.
“[RFK Jr.] helped us defeat vaccine mandates in Colorado in 2019 and will help make America healthy again by shaking up HHS and FDA,” Polis continued in his X post. Although Polis said he hopes Kennedy “leans into personal choice on vaccines rather than bans,” the vaccine conspiracist has strongly advocated for…
