Democratic Colorado governor commends Trump for nominating RFK Jr. as HHS secretary

Democratic Colorado Gov. Jared Polis praised President-elect Trump for nominating Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to beryllium the adjacent caput of the Department of Health and Human Services.

In a lengthy societal media station connected Thursday, Polis praised Kennedy for helping Colorado "defeat vaccine mandates" successful 2019 amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

"He helped america decision vaccine mandates successful Colorado successful 2019 and volition assistance marque America steadfast again by shaking up HHS and FDA," helium wrote. 

"I anticipation helium leans into idiosyncratic prime connected vaccines alternatively than bans (which I deliberation are terrible, conscionable similar mandates) but what I’m astir optimistic astir is taking connected large pharma and the firm ag oligopoly to amended our health," Polis said.

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Colorado Gov. Jared Polis speaks connected signifier during the 3rd time of the Democratic National Convention astatine the United Center connected August 21, 2024 successful Chicago, Illinois.  (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Trump announced his information of RFK Jr. for HHS secretary Thursday afternoon, igniting a firestorm of praise and critique.

In his announcement, Trump promised that, with Kennedy starring the HHS, the bureau would beryllium restored arsenic the "Gold Standard Scientific Research."

"For excessively long, Americans person been crushed by the concern nutrient analyzable and cause companies who person engaged successful deception, misinformation, and disinformation erstwhile it comes to Public Health," Trump wrote. "Mr. Kennedy volition reconstruct these Agencies to the traditions of Gold Standard Scientific Research, and beacons of Transparency, to extremity the Chronic Disease epidemic, and to Make America Great and Healthy Again!"

Republican statesmanlike nominee erstwhile President Donald Trump shakes hands with Independent statesmanlike campaigner Robert F. Kennedy Jr. astatine a run rally astatine the Desert Diamond Arena, Friday, Aug. 23, 2024, successful Glendale, Ariz.  (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Kennedy launched his statesmanlike run as a Democrat and past yet endorsed Trump. 

Kennedy besides spoke during Trump's historical Madison Square Garden rally past month, wherever helium unleashed connected the existent authorities of the Democratic Party.

"The Democratic Party is the enactment of war. It's the enactment of the CIA. You had Kamala Harris giving a speech astatine the Democratic normal that was written by neocons. It was belligerent, pugnacious. It talked astir domination of the satellite by the United States done our weapons of war. It's the enactment contiguous that wants to disagreement Americans. It's a enactment that is dismantling women's sports by letting men play women's sports," helium said. 

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"It's the enactment of Wall Street. It's the enactment of Bill Gates, who conscionable gave $50 cardinal to Harris. It's the party, and the Harris run is precise arrogant that it received the endorsement of 50 erstwhile CIA agents and officers and of John Bolton and of Dick Cheney."

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced 'No Spoiler' pledge for the upcoming elections astatine a run stop. RFK Jr. announced that lone helium could decision Donald Trump successful the wide predetermination successful November and demanded that President Joe Biden measurement aside.  (Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

This isn't the archetypal clip Kennedy was considered for a Cabinet presumption for a statesmanlike administration. Back successful 2008, past President-elect Obama reportedly powerfully considered naming Kennedy to pb the Environmental Protection Agency, Politico reported astatine the time. 

Polis has been captious of a Trump presidency. He precocious joined forces with Illinois Gov. J.B Pritzker to co-chair a caller conjugation called Governors Safeguarding Democracy.

The website names "fast-moving disinformation campaigns" and "cyberthreats" arsenic examples of "threats to our democracy."

"Donald Trump is going to bring radical into his medication who are implicit loyalists to his cult of property and not needfully to the law," Pritzker said, according to the New York Times. "Last time, helium didn’t truly cognize wherever the levers of authorities were. I deliberation helium astir apt does now. And truthful I deliberation that the menace remains great."

Left: Colorado Gov. Jared Polis speaks to members of the media successful the rotation country pursuing the archetypal vice statesmanlike statement astatine the CBS Broadcast Center successful New York, connected Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024; Right: Ill. Gov. J. B. Pritzker attends the Clinton Global Initiative 2024 Annual Meeting astatine New York Hilton Midtown connected Sept. 24, 2024 successful New York City.  (Left: Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images; Right: John Nacion/Getty Images;)

During an quality connected MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Polis said of Trump, "we're gonna enactment with him and his medication nevertheless we tin for our state." 

Polis echoed his sentiments, penning connected X that helium looks guardant to "partnering with him to genuinely marque America steadfast again."

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"He volition look beardown peculiar involvement absorption connected these, but I look guardant to partnering with him to genuinely marque America steadfast again," Polis added. 

Fox News Digital’s Greg Wehner and Alex Nitzberg contributed to this report.