“Winning the votes of two of the leaders of the anti-Trump resistance in the Senate would seem like a long shot for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in his bid to win confirmation as President-elect Donald Trump’s secretary of health and human services,” Politico reports.
“Then again, Ed Markey and Elizabeth Warren are Democrats who represent Massachusetts, and Kennedy is… a Kennedy, the son of a Democratic senator and nephew of two other Democratic senators.”
“Kennedy’s decision to meet with the Bay State’s Senate delegation on Thursday shows, to some political insiders, the lasting power of the Kennedy name in the state, which launched the political careers of Kennedy’s namesake father and uncles John F. Kennedy and Edward Kennedy.”
