{"id":1960587,"date":"2023-06-29T16:15:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T20:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rfk-jr-defends-vaccine-stance-says-democratic-party-has-lost-its-way\/"},"modified":"2023-06-29T16:16:34","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T20:16:34","slug":"rfk-jr-defends-vaccine-stance-says-democratic-party-has-lost-its-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rfk-jr-defends-vaccine-stance-says-democratic-party-has-lost-its-way\/","title":{"rendered":"RFK Jr. supports vaccine stance, criticizes Democratic Party."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frfk-jr-defends-vaccine-stance-says-democratic-party-has-lost-its-way%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1960587&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Stands Firm on &#8220;Safe Vaccines&#8221; and Criticizes the Democratic Party<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. backed up his views on \u201csafe vaccines\u201d and said the Democratic Party is not what it used to be during a NewsNation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsnationnow.com\/politics\/2024-election\/rfk-jr-town-hall-vaccine-trump-russia-ukraine-democrat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">town hall<\/a> on Wednesday night.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kennedy fielded questions from the audience and moderator Elizabeth Vargas, host of NewsNation\u2019s \u201cElizabeth Vargas Reports,\u201d on a variety of topics, including the war in Ukraine and the state of the Democratic Party. One prominent moment from the event came when Dr. Tariq Butt, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/national-pro-life-group-launches-10m-ad-campaign-ahead-of-supreme-court-abortion-case\/\" title=\"National Pro-Life Group Launches M Ad Campaign Ahead of Supreme Court Abortion Case\">family medicine physician<\/a>, confronted the presidential contender on his controversial views on childhood vaccinations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI\u2019ve never been anti-vaccine, and I\u2019ve said that hundreds and hundreds of times but it doesn\u2019t matter,\u201d Kennedy said in response to Butt calling his stance \u201cdangerous.\u201d \u201cUsing a pejorative to describe me is a way of silencing me or marginalizing me,\u201d Kennedy said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kennedy, the founder of the nonprofit organization Children\u2019s Health Defense, said that he is a proponent of \u201csafe vaccines,\u201d though Vargas pointed out that \u201cnearly every\u201d scientific and medical organization says he is \u201cwrong\u201d on the issue and that vaccines are already safe.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udd25 Robert F. Kennedy Jr Debates a Family Physician on Vaccine Safety During the NewsNation Town Hall<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ffJIzffZUZ\">pic.twitter.com\/ffJIzffZUZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheChiefNerd\/status\/1674266437890744323?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 29, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI think virtually every American would agree with my stance on vaccines, which is that vaccines should be tested like other medicines. They should be safety tested,\u201d Kennedy told Butt. \u201cUnfortunately, vaccines are not safety tested, they\u2019re not.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cOf the 72 vaccine doses now mandated \u2014 essentially mandated, they\u2019re recommended but they\u2019re really mandated \u2014 for American children, none of them, not one, has ever been subject to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rfk-jr-defends-vaccine-stance-says-democratic-party-has-lost-its-way\/\" title=\"RFK Jr. supports vaccine stance, criticizes Democratic Party.\">pre-licensing placebo-controlled trial<\/a>,\u201d Kennedy claimed, prompting Vargas to interject, saying, \u201cYes they have.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kennedy pointed to a 2016 meeting with Dr. Anthony Fauci in which he requested a pre-licensing safety test from \u201cany vaccine.\u201d The presidential contender says he sued the Department of Health and Human Services to produce the documentation, but they never did.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThey said they could not provide a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-film-must-watch-explores-harms-of-aluminum-in-vaccines-and-potential-remedies\/\" title=\"New Film, Must Watch, Explores Harms of Aluminum in Vaccines, and Potential Remedies\">single safety study<\/a> for any vaccine that is on the childhood schedule \u2014 a pre-licensing safety study,\u201d Kennedy said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">During the town hall, Kennedy also expressed his displeasure with the modern state of the Democratic Party and refused to pledge to support the eventual Democratic nominee. He told Vargas he was running because he thinks his party has \u201clost its way.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI believe that the values that I\u2019m trying to promote are the exact values that my father and my uncle would have promoted,\u201d Kennedy said. \u201cOne of my purposes in running is to remind the Democratic Party of what we are supposed to represent, and what we\u2019ve always represented. \u2026 I want my party back.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">RFK Jr: &#8220;One of my purposes in running is to remind the Democratic Party of what we are supposed to represent, and what we&#8217;ve always represented \u2026 I want my party back.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4f0w5D88QA\">pic.twitter.com\/4f0w5D88QA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TPostMillennial\/status\/1674229146107658240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 29, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kennedy is polling at 15%, trailing President Biden, who sits at 62%, according to a Harvard CAPS-Harris <a href=\"https:\/\/harvardharrispoll.com\/key-results-june-3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">poll<\/a>. A CNN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/rfk-jr-remains-thorn-bidens-side-2024-polls-show-kennedy-holding-sizable-chunk-dem-voters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">poll<\/a> from earlier this year had Kennedy at 20% among Democrats, a strong performance against an incumbent president.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\"><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When asked whether he would support the eventual nominee, Kennedy said, \u201cOf course I\u2019m not gonna do that,\u201d adding that he\u2019d support the nominee if they were \u201cliving up to Democratic values.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a Democratic presidential candidate, expressed support for &#8220;safe vaccines&#8221; and criticized the changing nature of the Democratic Party during a NewsNation town hall. Kennedy addressed questions from the audience and moderator Elizabeth Vargas, host of &#8220;Elizabeth Vargas Reports,&#8221; covering a range of subjects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1530,"featured_media":1960588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1960587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1530"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1960587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1960588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1960587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1960587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1960587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}