Whit Ayres’ comments about Secretary Robert F. Kennedy in The Detroit News:

Whit Ayres, a Republican pollster, warned that it remained to be seen if voters would put aside their views of Kennedy after he spent years sowing doubt about the safety and efficacy of vaccines, contrary to scientific evidence.

“The vast majority of Americans view effective vaccines as one of the great miracles of modern medicine. An anti-vaccine message is political poison,” Ayres said.

Kennedy “is trying to be a team player, but he is so widely associated with an anti-vaccine message that I don’t know that he can effectively pivot away from that,” he said.

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