{"id":1983692,"date":"2023-07-26T21:05:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T01:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-says-no-to-rfk-jr-as-vp-pick-says-he-might-sic-kennedy-on-cdc-fda\/"},"modified":"2023-07-26T21:06:23","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T01:06:23","slug":"desantis-says-no-to-rfk-jr-as-vp-pick-says-he-might-sic-kennedy-on-cdc-fda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-says-no-to-rfk-jr-as-vp-pick-says-he-might-sic-kennedy-on-cdc-fda\/","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis rejects RFK Jr. as VP, hints at involving him against CDC, FDA."},"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\">26<\/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%2Fdesantis-says-no-to-rfk-jr-as-vp-pick-says-he-might-sic-kennedy-on-cdc-fda%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=1983692&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>Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Rejects Idea of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Vice President<\/h2>\n<p>Florida Governor and GOP presidential candidate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/ron-desantis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ron DeSantis<\/a> firmly dismissed the\u2064 notion of\u200b selecting \u2063Democrat contender \u2062Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as\u200b his running mate if he \u2062secures the\u2063 2024 Republican \u2062nomination.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis, who \u200bentered the race earlier this year, expressed\u200c his opposition to a DeSantis\/Kennedy Jr. ticket during an interview with Outkick\u2019s Clay\u200c Travis, despite Kennedy Jr.&#8217;s \u200bgrowing \u2064popularity among some conservative circles.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy \u200dJr., the nephew of the late President John \u200bF.\u2064 Kennedy, officially launched his 2024\u200b Democratic presidential campaign in April. He has vowed to dismantle the merger\u2063 of state \u200cand corporate power,\u200c gaining attention for his stance against vaccines \u2063and his criticism of the government&#8217;s handling of the COVID pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>However, despite \u200ctheir differing\u200c political affiliations,\u2062 DeSantis \u2062revealed that\u200d he\u2063 agrees wholeheartedly \u2063with Kennedy&#8217;s views on Dr. Anthony Fauci \u2062and the\u200d corruption within the health bureaucracy. These are issues \u2064that both candidates openly \u2063discuss in their respective\u200c campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Here&#8217;s\u2062 the issue: I&#8217;m aligned with him \u2062on [former presidential medical adviser Dr. Anthony] Fauci,\u2064 the corruption, and the health bureaucracy \u2064\u2014 100\u2063 percent,&#8221; DeSantis stated. &#8220;But, at the\u2064 end of the day, he&#8217;s more liberal, very liberal on some. I mean, he used \u2062to say, I don&#8217;t know if he still believes this, that if you\u2063 deny \u200dclimate \u2062change, you should go to jail, things like that. So, it&#8217;s like conservative voters, they would \u200dwant those positions flushed out. He opposed the affirmative action ruling [that said] you can&#8217;t racially discriminate \u2026 he would have wanted that to remain. So I just think at the end of the day, you need somebody that&#8217;s going to reflect \u2063the values of the broad coalition.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes, the medical stuff \u2014\u2063 I&#8217;m\u2063 very good on that. So that does appeal to me,\u200c but there&#8217;s a whole host of other things that \u2062he&#8217;d probably \u200cbe out of step with.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Republican presidential candidate Ron\u2064 DeSantis shoots down the \u2063idea of having Democrat Robert F. Kennedy Jr. be \u2063his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kim-reynolds-declares-parents-matter-in-sotu-response-speech\/\" title=\"Kim Reynolds Declares 'Parents Matter' in SOTU Response Speech\">vice-presidential pick<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There also seems\u200c to be the notion that he \u2063suggested RFK Jr. could lead the\u200b CDC or \u200cFDA \u200dbut that&#8217;s not what the transcript suggests:<\/p>\n<p>CLAY\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Huu8m96XsB\">pic.twitter.com\/Huu8m96XsB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) \u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealSaavedra\/status\/1684326972271235074?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July \u206326, \u200c2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Despite his rejection of Kennedy Jr. as \u200da <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fla-gov-ron-desantis-becoming-major-voice-for-gop\/\" title=\"Fla. Gov. Ron DeSantis becoming major voice for GOP\">potential vice president<\/a>, DeSantis did entertain the\u200b idea\u200d of appointing him to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/most-democrats-still-dont-think-the-covid-19-pandemic-is-over\/\" title=\"Most Democrats STILL Don\u2019t Think The COVID-19 Pandemic Is Over\">top federal health agency<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you&#8217;re president, sic him\u200b on the \u2062FDA [Food and Drug Administration] if he&#8217;d be willing to\u2064 serve. Or sic him on CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention],&#8221; DeSantis suggested. \u2064&#8221;But in \u200dterms\u200d of being veep, there&#8217;s 70% of the\u2064 issues that\u2063 he\u200d may\u200d be averse to our base on, you know, \u2062that just \u200ccreates an issue.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In recent months, \u200dDeSantis has been vocal\u200c in his criticism of \u200dfederal agencies,\u200b particularly targeting the CDC for imposing\u200b mandates \u2062on U.S. citizens during the height of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis reportedly met with Kennedy Jr. during the COVID pandemic and strongly criticized the federal government&#8217;s response\u2063 as &#8220;catastrophic,&#8221;\u2063 suggesting that complete dismantling of certain institutions \u200bmight not be severe enough.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There was \u200ca report \u200dthat \u2014 I had spoken with Bobby\u2062 Kennedy Jr., and he had said that &#8216;the governor said that you know, that we need to burn to \u2063the ground the\u2064 CDC&#8217;\u200c and\u200b all these things,&#8221; DeSantis clarified.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And I just want to be \u2064very clear, \u200cfull disclosure,&#8221; DeSantis continued. &#8220;I\u2063 was not \u2062that kind to CDC and NIH and any of \u200dthose [agencies]. Just for the record, just so your viewers don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m going\u2064 soft, but\u2064 I can&#8217;t \u200cthink of a more catastrophic response than how this country responded to\u2063 COVID, particularly at the \u2062federal level.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Governor and GOP presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis dismissed the notion of selecting Democrat contender Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as his running mate if he secures the 2024 Republican nomination. Despite being approached by Outkick&#8217;s Clay Travis, DeSantis, who joined the race recently, firmly rejected the idea of a DeSantis\/Kennedy Jr. partnership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":429,"featured_media":1983693,"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-1983692","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\/1983692","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\/429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1983692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1983693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1983692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1983692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1983692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}