DeSantis Retreats On Appointing RFK To Run CDC

Florida Politics reports:

Ron DeSantis isn’t ready to tap Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to run the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) or the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) after all.

Instead, the Florida Governor and 2024 presidential candidate envisions the Democrat anti-vaxxer as part of a “bipartisan task force” to “hold them accountable.”

“He wouldn’t be the head of CDC. That would be a doctor or a Ph.D.,” DeSantis said. DeSantis said that his enthusiasm for Kennedy in either of those roles was misinterpreted, given the framing of the question in the very friendly Outkick interview.

Read the full article. DeSantis has endured days of mockery from all sides since floating Kennedy to run the CDC or the FDA. Yeah, misinterpreted.