Democrats struggled to respond to real and manufactured challenges as voters grew more concerned over the number of people crossing the border.

The party’s handling of the issue played a key role in its defeat on November 5. Now, some voices are starting to speak out about it.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s selection to serve as President-elect Donald Trump’s top health official is prompting questions from policy watchers over how the pick will handle the range of key health policies that would fall under his purview.

Of the many unorthodox positions taken by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., US President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to head the Department of Health and Human Services, none worries US public-health experts more than his embrace of the anti-vaccine movement. If he assumes the position, he could influence the leadership of agencies in charge of approving, recommending and distributing vaccines in the US. Plus, Kennedy, who emerged as one of the leading voices in the anti-vaccine movement during the Covid-

He has no medical qualifications and has been a prolific spreader of health misinformation, but the anti-vaccine campaigner Robert F. Kennedy Jr ran a presidential campaign that garnered support from hundreds of thousands of Americans.

One of the new cliches of American politics is that progressives need their own Joe Rogan. The comedian turned podcaster has an audience that is four-fifths male and 51 per cent aged 18-34, and it has not escaped the Democrats’ notice that, while women aged 18 to 29 voted overwhelmingly for Kamala Harris, men in

Investors are “spooked” by plan to name a vaccine-sceptic as US health secretary, analysts say.