Bill Cassidy just lost the Louisiana Republican Senate primary, dropping to dead last. He had been one of the most consistent obstacles to meaningful reform conversations at HHS, and the exchange below from his Senate hearings is a good illustration of why the medical freedom community had been watching his seat.

Cassidy: "Will you reassure mothers that the measles and hepatitis B vaccines do not cause autism?"

Kennedy: "If the data is there, I will absolutely do that."

Cassidy: "I know the data is there. Convince me that you will become the public health advocate that will become the influencer for people to believe no, there's 1.25 million kids studied and there's no autism associated with measles."

Kennedy: "I'm going to be an advocate for strong science. There are other studies as well and I'd love to show those to you. There was a study that came out last week of 47,000 nine-year-olds in the Medicaid system in Florida that shows the opposite."

Cassidy: "Um, what was that? What was that last article?"

Kennedy: "That article is by Mawson. M-A-W-S-O-N."

A sitting incumbent senator, removed at the ballot box by a voting bloc that has had enough of closed-door science and blocked investigations. Del's message to the Trump administration is direct: this community is a voting bloc, it is organized, and it is watching.

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