Posted on 01/27/2025 3:58:32 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Robert F Kennedy Jr’s allies fear that he has failed to convince enough senators to confirm him as Donald Trump’s top health official, according to people familiar with the matter.
Kennedy, known as RFK Jr, was holding last-minute meetings with Democrats and Republicans ahead of two days of questioning by the Senate’s finance and health committees later this week, three people said. He has met more than 60 senators since his nomination. “There’s more anxiety now than ever,” said a person close to Kennedy. “This is a big week: if the vote were today it would be iffy. We really need to solidify momentum this week to overcome all the negativity there’s been.”
Opposition to Kennedy’s nomination has emerged from influential conservative voices, including The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board and Americans Advancing Freedom, a group co-founded by former vice-president Mike Pence that has expressed concern about the former Democrat’s support for abortion rights.
“What’s weird with RFK is the sheer volume of maybes that we need to watch and see where they come down — he is undoubtedly one of the two most endangered nominees,” said Chris Meekins, a Washington policy analyst for investment bank Raymond James.
Republican Senators Mitch McConnell, Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski are considered obvious candidates to oppose Kennedy’s nomination. All three voted against Trump’s defence secretary nominee Pete Hegseth last week when he secured senate confirmation with just a single tiebreaking vote cast by vice-president JD Vance.
But Kennedy’s support for abortion rights and his push to shake up the food industry and biomedical research funding were also potential sources of Republican opposition, people in his camp acknowledge. Pro-life senators including James Lankford, Republican senators such as Todd Young and Thom Tillis who are historically close to the pharmaceutical industry...
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‘Rats hate Apostates.
Not one friggin Democrat will support a life-long Democrat? What a sick next of vipers our ‘elected’ leaders are... this is why they went all out to steal 4-5 Senate seats folks.
Actually, that makes it even worse. They're more likely to vote for an actual Republican (as long as you're not Hegseth or Kavanaugh).
That’s not it.
They all love Big Pharma $$. Rats and GOP, no difference.
Washington D.C. is a terrible cancer
He’s going to have to agree to uphold a very pro-life platform. If he doesn’t - then he’s toast, as he should be in that circumstance.
Can he just get him in on a recess appointment?
If democrat Senators don’t vote to confirm RFK and Tulsi they will be exposed as the party of big pharma and the military industrial complex. They will alienate even more democrat-voting Americans.
I don't think they care.
Because they are beholden to big pharma that’s why
“ Not one friggin Democrat will support a life-long Democrat?”
Good observation.
I thought Fetterman said he’d vote for Kennedy...
“ He’s going to have to agree to uphold a very pro-life platform. If he doesn’t - then he’s toast, as he should be in that circumstance.”
What is his commitment to this?
Do you know? I don’t know.
I’m not sure. Like those who wouldn’t say they were voting for Trump before the election but did anyway, I wonder if more than a few Democrats are wondering how they will explain a vote against the scion of one of America’s legendary democrat families when re-election time comes around.
If the democrats vote him down(with gop help) do you really think it will hurt us?
Think about all the Kennedy democrats out there that became Reaganite’s.
They eat their own. This will put it all out in the open.
There is no such thing as “Republican” and “democrat” anymore. Just patriots and communists.
If anyone was waiting for further evidence to that statement, here’s Exhibit A.
please join me in extra prayer for this one.
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...the benefits of vote/election fraud are many....
The Financial Times is as bad or worse than the NY Slimes.
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