Thu Jul 27, 2023 – 3:08 pm EDT
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) – Florida governor and Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis rejected the notion of making Democrat environmental activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. his running mate Wednesday, but expressed openness to working with him in a more limited capacity to investigate the medical bureaucracy.
Late into an hour-long interview on OutKick, host Clay Travis asked DeSantis about the possibility of choosing for his vice president Kennedy, nephew of the late President John F. Kennedy and son of the late Attorney General Robert Kennedy, a longtime environmental activist and founder of the group Children’s Health Defense, who is currently running a long-shot bid for the Democrat presidential nomination.
DeSantis shot down the suggestion, citing Kennedy’s longstanding hostility to so-called “climate deniers” and his recent condemnation of the U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down racial quotas in college admissions, while acknowledging alignment with the heterodox Democrat on one issue.
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“There’s a whole host of other things he might be out of step with. So in that regard, if you’re president, sic him on the FDA if he’d be willing to serve, or sic him on CDC,”
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