By Maiya Keidan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on Friday he is not running for president in 2028, calling the suggestion inaccurate on social media.
“DC lobby shops are laboring fiercely to drive a wedge between President Trump and me”, he said on X. “They’re pushing the flat-out lie that I’m running for president in 2028. Let me be clear: I am not running for president in 2028.”
Kennedy previously ran as an independent presidential candidate in 2024, campaigning on combating chronic illness and ridding the environment and food supply of hazardous chemicals.
He ended his bid for election on August 23, 2024, throwing his support behind Trump who selected Kennedy to lead the top U.S. health agency last November.
“The president has made himself the answer to my 20-year prayer that God would put me in a position to end the chronic disease epidemic — and that’s exactly what my team and I will do until the day he leaves office”, Kennedy also said in his post on Friday.
(Reporting by Maiya Keidan and Caroline Humer)
