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Posted on 02/02/2026 12:36:54 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Devotees of the health secretary’s Make America Healthy Again movement say they oppose the Louisiana senator’s reelection.
Bill Cassidy seemed aware of the political peril when he decided, a year ago, to challenge Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s skeptical views about vaccines.
“My phone blows up with people who really follow you and there are many who trust you more than they trust their own physician,” the Louisiana Republican told Kennedy during his confirmation hearing, before reluctantly voting to make him health secretary.
Now, as Cassidy seeks a third term, Kennedy’s followers haven’t forgiven the senator for grilling Kennedy at that hearing or for criticizing his efforts as health secretary to cast doubt on vaccine safety. Add to that President Donald Trump’s decision last month to endorse challenger Rep. Julia Letlow in the race, and Cassidy is in a fight for his political life.
“Cassidy, within the MAHA movement, is pretty well despised,” said Jeff Hutt, the former spokesman for the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) super PAC who worked on Kennedy’s 2024 presidential campaign.
Cassidy’s fate may have been sealed way back in 2021 when he voted to convict President Donald Trump after the House impeached him for inciting the riot at the Capitol that Jan. 6.
But Cassidy’s tensions with Kennedy over the last year have further imperiled his prospects to a degree that his massive war chest and the power of incumbency may not be able to surmount.
Since Cassidy last cruised to reelection in 2020, Louisiana has emerged as a stronghold of the growing MAHA movement. Republican Gov. Jeff Landry has publicly aligned himself with Kennedy’s agenda, state lawmakers have sponsored bills to de-fluoridate tap water and ban some food dyes and artificial sweeteners from public school meals, and the state health department recently stopped encouraging mass vaccination.
Landry, whom Kennedy calls...
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Give Cassidy all of my COVID shots and boosters. All at once.
It’s not just Kennedy supporters.
I wonder if this MAHA PAC will donate to a good competitor who would run against cASSidy.
I would donate, if so.
Confusing headline....
I can’t wait to vote him out of office.
Politico is an instrument of the left, for sure, but sometimes, they have pertinent information:
I didn’t know that Rep. Julia Letlow lost her husband, the late Luke Letlow to COVID on Dec. 29th, 2020, shortly after he was elected to congress. Just something to take into account.
“Confusing headline....”
Yep.
Cassidy gave nary a peep when the Ass’t. Secretary of Health 4-star Admiral and pediatrician led us all to the snake bite trough.
Cassidy looks like the incarnation of Beavis. It’s a wonder anybody takes him seriously.
Cassidy was still donating to Democrats into his mid 40s. He is only a Republican because that is what it takes to win in Louisiana now.
Ah, yes. Gas station sushi, basically.
He had just been reelected a few months earlier, so the Bush/Romney establishment likely cynically advised him voters would forget by now.
In life one makes choices. Too many Senators are not used to accountability. With accountability comes consequences. Senator Cassidy may soon learn this lesson.
he was a real Democrat, still is.
I thought Kennedy’a followers were out to defeat him. Awkward headline.
You can add mine to yours.
My very smart MD told me not to get one.
My friend, however, got every shot and booster, then got covid four times. She’s overweight and eats too much junk food. Don’t think she even takes vitamins. A lot of C every day would have helped.
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