Florida Gov. DeSantis says if he's elected president, he’d be open to Democratic presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for a position in his administration with either the FDA or the CDC.
July 26, 2023, 10:47 PM UTCFlorida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Wednesday that if he’s elected president, he’d be open to considering Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for a position in his administration with either the Food and Drug Administration or the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.in an interview with the OutKick’s Clay Travis, who asked him about Kennedy as a possible running mate.
DeSantis signaled that he was uninterested in that possibility, noting that Kennedy would be out of step with much of the GOP base on some issues, like climate change. But DeSantis said he and Kennedy were aligned on medical issues, including their criticism of Dr. Anthony Fauci, who was the government’s top infectious disease expert“If you’re president, you know, sic him [Kennedy] on the FDA if he’d be willing to serve, or sic him on CDC. But in terms of being veep — if there is, you know, 70% of the issues that he may be averse to our base on. ... That just creates an issue,” DeSantis said.
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