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On Monday, Donald Trump bent over backwards to reassure people about Robert F. Kennedy Jr., his pick for Secretary of Health and Human Services.

Trump said RFK's views on vaccines aren't that radical and vouched for the polio vaccine himself.

But Trump also suggested he isn't in favor of vaccine mandates in schools and said

there are lots of problems with vaccines. We think this reveals a political vulnerability.

Trump knows RFK's extreme views are a political problem for him and knows GOP senators could

still tank him if this gets out of hand. Yet Trump also seems

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