Today's top stories in US news, politics, government, and world affairs:
It’s been just over a month since Vice President Kamala Harris lost the presidential election, but the speculation about her next steps have already begun. While giving a speech to her supporters last week, Kamala told the crowd of her next move, “you haven’t seen the last of me,” and “I’m not going quietly into the night”. Even President Joe Biden at the DNC Holiday Reception said to Harris in his Biden-esque language, ‘You’re Not Going Anywhere, Kid’. Washington, D.C. insiders believe that Harris has 2 choices of a path for her next move: either to pursue the Presidency again in 2028, or to run for California Governor in 2026, which of course would rule out a White House run in 2028. Both the White House and the California Governor’s Mansion are options that are completely feasible for Harris given that polling shows she’s still incredibly popular among Democrats, and Democrats do not blame Kamala for her 2024 Presidential loss.
During Steve Bannon’s remarks this weekend at the New York Young Republican Club’s gala in Manhattan, he told the crowd “I don’t know, maybe we do it again in ’28…Are you guys up for that?” “Trump ’28, come on, man!” As the Daily Beast Reports he continued to raise the specter of a Donald Trump run in 2028, quoting Trump loyalist and self-proclaimed “viceroy” Mike Davis as saying a third Trump term was possible “since [the constitution] doesn’t say consecutive [terms].” Now what makes this newsworthy is that Bannon is not the only person in Trump world laying the groundwork for a Trump White House bid in 2028. In fact, President Donald Trump even has hinted about it himself on numerous occasions. Despite the frenzy to the contrary, Democrats have noted that the 22nd Amendment is crystal clear in prohibiting any president from serving more than two terms — regardless of whether those terms are consecutive or not.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is among Trump’s most controversial nominees to serve as Secretary of Health & Human Services. Among his ardent supporters, they view RFK as a folk hero of the MAHA movement, or Make America Healthy Again, which is of course a spinoff of MAGA. But among his spectics, and there are many, RFK is seen as a deranged conspiracy theorist, with views that range from insane to dangerous. And there are new concerns which have now arisen that RFK would specifically target the polio vaccine should he be confirmed to lead HHS. As the New York Times reports, the lawyer helping RFK pick federal health officials for the incoming Trump administration - Aaron Siri - has petitioned the government to revoke its approval of the polio vaccine, which for decades has protected millions of people from a virus that can cause paralysis or death. To me, the fact that Mr. Siri is guiding RFK’s decision making is clear enough proof to disqualify him from being confirmed by the Senate. And yes, it is insane that we even have to debate what is settled fact: that the beginning of mass vaccination in 1965 has nearly eradicated polio from the Earth.
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