{"id":2398512,"date":"2025-02-04T05:11:02","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T10:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pence-group-launches-anti-rfk-jr-ad-using-trumps-words-democrat-plant-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T05:12:04","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T10:12:04","slug":"pence-group-launches-anti-rfk-jr-ad-using-trumps-words-democrat-plant-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pence-group-launches-anti-rfk-jr-ad-using-trumps-words-democrat-plant-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Pence group launches anti-RFK Jr ad using Trump\u2019s words: &#8216;Democrat plant&#8217; &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fpence-group-launches-anti-rfk-jr-ad-using-trumps-words-democrat-plant-washington-examiner%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=2398512&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--><p>Robert \u2062F. Kennedy Jr.\u200d has been nominated by President \u2063Donald Trump for the\u200c position of \u2064Secretary of Health\u2064 and Human Services. However, his nomination is \u200d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mccaul-denounces-tubervilles-paralyzing-military-blockade-national-security-problem\/\" title=\"McCaul criticizes Tuberville&#039;s &#039;crippling&#039; military block...e: &#039;Threat to national security&#039;\">facing significant opposition<\/a>, notably from a new ad campaign launched by a group aligned with former \u2063Vice\u200c President Mike Pence. The campaign labels Kennedy as\u200d a &#8220;Democrat plant,&#8221; leveraging past statements from Trump that criticize Kennedy&#8217;s political alignment\u2064 and positions on health-related issues.<\/p>\n<p>The advertisement, set to\u2062 air on Fox News, accuses Kennedy of being a \u2064&#8221;radical \u2064left Democrat&#8221; \u2064and not a conservative, despite some perceptions to \u200bthe \u200bcontrary. This\u2062 campaign comes just ahead of a critical Senate Finance Committee vote on Kennedy&#8217;s nomination, highlighting a divide\u200b within the Republican Party concerning\u2064 his views, \u2062particularly on vaccinations and abortion rights. \u200d <\/p>\n<p>While Kennedy has condemned abortion\u2063 personally and stated that he would\u200b uphold the management&#8217;s \u2062policies rather than his own views if confirmed, his \u2064past support for abortion rights has raised concerns among conservative\u2064 factions.\u200b Some <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/remember-when-media-freaked-out-over-amy-coney-barrett-and-the-right-wing-supreme-court\/\" title=\"Remember When Media Freaked Out Over Amy Coney Barrett And The Right Wing Supreme Court?\">anti-abortion groups<\/a>\u200b express tentative support<\/a> \u2064for Kennedy, trusting his commitment not\u200d to inject personal beliefs into his\u2062 role.<\/p>\n<p>As the confirmation hearings\u2063 unfold, Kennedy seeks to \u200bgarner enough \u2062Republican support\u200d to advance his nomination,\u2063 but\u200d key figures, including Senator \u200dBill Cassidy, remain undecided about backing him due \u2063to his controversial\u2064 views. The\u200c ongoing political maneuvering reflects the\u2062 complex dynamics within the GOP surrounding Kennedy&#8217;s candidacy.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Pence group launches anti-RFK Jr ad using Trump&rsquo;s words: &lsquo;Democrat plant&rsquo;<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1960444\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>EXCLUSIVE &mdash;<\/strong> Former Vice President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/mike-pence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Mike Pence\">Mike Pence<\/a>&lsquo;s policy group is ratcheting up its efforts to derail the nomination of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/rfk-jr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Robert F. Kennedy Jr.\">Robert F. Kennedy Jr.<\/a> with a wave of commercials aired ahead of a crucial Senate committee vote.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Advancing American Freedom is launching a six-figure ad buy on Fox News starting Tuesday morning attacking Kennedy, nominated for health and human services secretary, as a &ldquo;Democrat plant&rdquo; using President Donald Trump&rsquo;s words from the campaign trail. The commercial will run through the week.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;RFK Jr. is a Democrat plant,&rdquo; Trump says in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/scl\/fi\/s8uadh33xo6lamg9b1cv0\/AAF-RFK-TV-Ad.mp4?rlkey=wmcsj9ivit71m1otvqt03rwfu&amp;e=2&amp;st=5u4kpb52&amp;dl=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">30-second ad<\/a>, first reported by the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>. The footage is from a Truth Social post Trump made last year before Kennedy ended his third-party presidential bid and ultimately endorsed him.<\/p>\n<p>The ad&rsquo;s placement on the popular network for conservatives comes as the Senate Finance Committee prepares to vote Tuesday morning on whether to advance Kennedy&rsquo;s nomination to the full chamber. His fate is in limbo as he struggles to capture the required Republican support.<\/p>\n<p>AAF, which promotes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/washington-secrets\/3047147\/pence-guides-gop-reagan-style-conservative-anti-abortion-anti-tax-agenda\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Reagan-era conservativism\">Reagan-era conservativism<\/a>, opposes Kennedy&rsquo;s confirmation due to his past support for abortion rights and vaccine <a href=\"https:\/\/advancingamericanfreedom.com\/rfk-ads\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">skepticism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;A lot of people think Jr. is a conservative. He&rsquo;s not. He&rsquo;s an extreme liberal,&rdquo; the ad goes on to show Trump saying. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s radical left. So, don&rsquo;t think you&rsquo;re going to vote for him and feel good. He&rsquo;s a radical left Democrat.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The ad closes with the on-screen message: &ldquo;President Trump was right the first time. Vote NO on RFK Jr.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Katie Miller, Kennedy&rsquo;s spokeswoman and a former Pence communications director, did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump&rsquo;s choice to be Secretary of Health and Human Services, appears before the Senate Finance Committee for his confirmation hearing, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025.&nbsp;(AP Photo\/Ben Curtis)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), a Finance Committee member and swing vote over Kennedy&rsquo;s vaccine skepticism, told reporters Monday evening he remained undecided. He described additional conversations held with Kennedy over the weekend following last week&rsquo;s contentious confirmation hearings as &ldquo;cordial.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Despite his past views on abortion, certain anti-abortion groups have cautiously embraced Kennedy over his pledge not to inject his personal views into how he runs HHS.<\/p>\n<p>In his hearings, Kennedy condemned &ldquo;every abortion&rdquo; as &ldquo;a tragedy,&rdquo; said the United States &ldquo;cannot be a moral nation if we have 1.2 million abortions a year,&rdquo; and agreed with Trump that &ldquo;the states should control abortion.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I serve at the pleasure of the president,&rdquo; Kennedy said. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m going to implement his policies.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America stopped short of endorsing Kennedy but will not count it against any Republican who may oppose him and was &ldquo;encouraged&rdquo; by Kennedy&rsquo;s answers on abortion.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To the contrary, AAF said the hearings &ldquo;raised more questions about RFK Jr.&rsquo;s ability to lead HHS.&rdquo; Pence, whose relationship with Trump soured over his refusal to help overturn the 2020 election results, is a vocal opponent of abortion.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The American people deserve an HHS secretary with a firm commitment to protecting life, who doesn&rsquo;t fall for or promote health-related misinformation,&rdquo; the Pence-aligned group said in a previous statement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1960444\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1960444\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pence&#8217;s group targets RFK Jr. with anti-ad using Trump&#8217;s words<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3108,"featured_media":2398513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/aaf-ad-against-kennedy.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[49762,4500,37685,3634],"class_list":["post-2398512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-anti-rfk-jr","tag-pence","tag-political-ads","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/aaf-ad-against-kennedy.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2398512","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\/3108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2398512"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2398512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2398516,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2398512\/revisions\/2398516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2398513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2398512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2398512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2398512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}