September 5, 2025
(Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) — As RFK Jr. tries desperately to hold onto his position as HHS Secretary, new polling found the vast majority of Americans don’t trust RFK Jr. with medical advice or vaccines. 3 in 4 respondents reported they don’t trust him, instead turning to their own doctors and CDC guidance for medical information.
“It doesn’t take a doctor to see that RFK Jr. is leading us down a dangerous path and is endangering millions of Americans’ health,” said Shaughnessy Naughton, President of 314 Action. “The research shows that this isn’t a right or left issue. His incompetence and malicious ignorance are destroying our public health agencies as he boots our top scientists and undermines trust in expertise. It’s past time for RFK Jr. to resign or be fired — for our national security and public health.”
The new findings follow a Wall Street Journal poll that found voters trust Democrats significantly more on health care and vaccine policy than Republicans.
Key findings from RFK Jr. polling:
Anthony Salvanto
09/04/25
- Americans tend to believe Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s policies are making vaccines less available rather than more available. But the large majority of Americans feels government policy ought to make vaccines more available if people want them.
- Also, there’s a wide view that government policy should encourage parents to vaccinate their children for diseases like measles, mumps and rubella, more specifically. Only a scant few think the government ought to discourage that.
- Even as vaccines — particularly COVID vaccines — have sometimes been a political issue, this view on encouraging children’s vaccinations is true across party lines for the majority of Democrats, Republicans and independents.
- Those who think he is making vaccines less available overwhelmingly disapprove of his job performance. Those who say he has not changed vaccine policy or made them more available are approving.
The Hill: 1 in 4 Americans trust RFK Jr. with medical advice
Elizabeth Crisp
09/03/25
- An Economist/YouGov poll released Wednesday found that 26 percent of respondents said that they at least “somewhat” trust Kennedy’s medical advice, compared to 48 percent who said that they distrust him.
- An overwhelming majority (79 percent, of respondents said they trust medical advice from their own doctors, and half (51 percent) trust guidance from the embattled Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
- Nearly half of respondents in the Economist/YouGov poll (45 percent) said they disapprove of Kennedy’s job as the HHS secretary.
NBC News: Ahead of Kennedy hearing, GOP saw poll showing Trump voters support vaccines
Berkeley Lovelace Jr.
09/04/25
- Polling showing that a majority of President Donald Trump’s voters support vaccines was shared with several Republicans lawmakers’ staffers in a closed-door meeting Wednesday, according to two people familiar with the meeting.
- It was conducted by veteran Republican pollsters Tony Fabrizio and Bob Ward and concluded “that there is broad unity across party lines supporting vaccines such as measles (MMR), shingles, tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis (TDAP), and Hepatitis B.” Fabrizio and Ward presented the findings during the meeting, the sources said.
- The poll found that there was broad agreement that vaccines should continue to be made available at no cost, including two-thirds of Trump voters and more than 8 out of 10 swing voters.
- Respondents said they place their greatest trust in doctors and nurses when it comes to vaccine information, including 76% of Trump voters.
- About 73% of Trump voters and 83% of swing voters agreed that vaccines save lives.
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