Impartial presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. signaled in a brand new video that if former President Trump wins in November, he might be part of the administration to work on agriculture coverage.
Kennedy, who suspended most of his marketing campaign earlier this 12 months and backed Trump, outlined an inventory of priorities he stated he would usher in for the U.S. Division of Agriculture (USDA) if Trump is elected.
“When @realDonaldTrump gets me inside the USDA, we’re going to give farmers an off-ramp from the current system that destroys soil, makes people sick, and harms family farms,” he wrote Monday on social platform X, simply days after dropping his mom, together with a video asking supporters to donate to his “Make America Healthy Again” trigger.
The donation web page is devoted to fueling assist for the previous president.
“America’s current ag policy is destroying America’s health on every level. It’s destroying the economic health of farmers by forcing them to get big or get out,” Kennedy stated the video. “Big corporate farms do just fine, while the small and medium family operators are squeezed to the point of collapse.”
The impartial then touched on points brought on by poisonous pesticides and polluted soil, and shared plans to take away inside “conflicts of interest” inside the company.
“We’re going to ban the worst agricultural chemicals that are already prohibited in other countries. And we’re going to remove conflicts of interest from the USDA dietary panels and commissions,” he stated. “I’ve seen some of what America’s most innovative, regenerative farmers are doing today. They can literally green deserts. They rebuild depleted soils, wells that have been dry for 30 years start flowing again.”
“They heal the land,” Kennedy added.
He additionally promised to implement these adjustments after receiving an appointment within the Trump administration.
“When Donald Trump gets me inside the building I’m standing outside of right now, it won’t be this way anymore,” Kennedy advised viewers. “American agriculture will come roaring back, and so will American health.”
Whereas Kennedy has fought to have his title faraway from ballots in key battlegrounds that would determine the election, it is going to nonetheless stay in most purple and blue states.
The son of the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy (D-N.Y.), following his choice to endorse the previous president, stated final month that Trump had already chosen him to assist determine key gamers in a possible second administration. He additionally defined earlier this 12 months {that a} position in that administration was not a situation of his assist.
Because the race enters its last stretch, with lower than three weeks till Election Day, The Hill/Choice Desk HQ’s polling index exhibits Trump trailing Vice President Harris by 3.8 factors — 49.8 p.c to 46.9 p.c. When Kennedy is added into the combination, Harris’s lead jumps to three.9 factors — 48.2 p.c to Trump’s 44.3 individual, with 2.1 p.c going for the impartial, the info exhibits.
