Jared Polis’s 2028 president campaign got off to a rocky start this week when he alienated his Democrat base in praising the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to lead Trump’s national health agency.
“He helped us defeat vaccine mandates in Colorado in 2019 and will help make America healthy again by shaking up HHS and FDA,” Polis said on Thursday.
I’m excited by the news that the President-Elect will appoint @RobertKennedyJr to @HHSGov. He helped us defeat vaccine mandates in Colorado in 2019 and will help make America healthy again by shaking up HHS and FDA. I hope he leans into personal choice on vaccines rather than… pic.twitter.com/cILtTYplcn
— Jared Polis (@jaredpolis) November 14, 2024
And yet an hour later Polis tried to walk back his support, thereby pissing off Republican voters.
And those in between:
Press Release: Governor Jared Polis’s Praise for RFK Jr. Nomination Should Concern Coloradans #copolitics
“The Governor’s contradictory statement only adds to the uncertainty surrounding our state’s future health initiatives.” https://t.co/7ta9gY0M1k
— Green Party of Colorado (@greenpartyCO) November 15, 2024
“My work here is done,” we imagine President-Elect Trump proclaimed.
It’s only been a week since The Man was elected and yet he’s already fulfilling his promise to drain the swamp.
Entrenched employees at the Food and Drug Administration are threatening to quit over the Kennedy nomination, and the Republican-controlled Congress is intent on cutting wasteful spending.
Here’s another one for @DOGE, @elonmusk! https://t.co/NG5fNS0BVq pic.twitter.com/OctAK00eFJ
— Rand Paul (@RandPaul) November 14, 2024
With Trump’s pick of Matt Gaetz to be attorney general, we can only gleefully imagine the mass exodus of bureaucrats underway at the Justice Department.
Now he’s just effing with them … https://t.co/fRg9nTsxub
— CO Peak Politics (@COpeakpolitics) November 13, 2024
Trump has stunned the Beltway establishment and beyond with his rapid-fire announcements of who he’s bringing to the table to shake up the way our federal government operates for the better.
Polis was caught so off guard that he went from threatening insurrection-lite against Trump with the creation of the Governors Safeguarding Democracy on Wednesday, to fawning over one of the most contentious cabinet nominations in recent history on Thursday.
I warned you all for years. The inconsistency stems from a desire to climb a power ladder… not because of a genuine care of Coloradans. You suck @jaredpolis https://t.co/3uxEkVJ4YI
— Adrian L. Felix (@AFelixMedia) November 14, 2024
Keep up the good work, Trump!