An unreleased poll by a longtime Trump pollster indicated that an overwhelming majority of people questioned have concerns about childhood vaccine mandates and pharmaceutical industry influence, Daily Caller reports.
“As Robert F. Kennedy has pivoted away from vaccines, the White House has pointed to findings by Trump’s pollster Tony Fabrizio showing it’s not a winning political issue,” Daily Caller News Foundation senior investigative reporter Emily Kopp said.
“But I obtained unreleased polling by Fabrizio showing the opposite,” she added.
“An unreleased poll appears to undermine the White House’s stated rationale for pivoting away from policies that inflame pharmaceutical companies,” Daily Caller stated.
“The Daily Caller News Foundation obtained a secret poll conducted in October 2025 by President Donald Trump’s longtime pollster Tony Fabrizio finding that 73% of voters expressed concern about childhood vaccine mandates, while a whopping 90% of voters expressed concern about the pharmaceutical industry’s corrupting influence,” it continued.
EXCLUSIVE: Trump’s Pollster Found Voters Were Highly Concerned About Vaccines. The Poll Never Saw Daylight https://t.co/i8x5BAOhJB via @emilyakopp
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) May 26, 2026
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The October poll was never released. White House officials in media reports have instead cited a more limited poll Fabrizio conducted a month later concluding the issue is a political loser to justify Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s election-year pivot to food policy. The shift away from vaccines at Kennedy’s health department culminated last week in the termination of the lead author of the Trump administration’s policy on the childhood vaccination schedule.
The secret Fabrizio poll, which has not been previously reported, tells a different story. It shows voters’ top health concern is the drug lobby’s influence on public policy, on medical research and on news coverage, and that nearly seven in ten voters want more research on vaccines’ cumulative effect in infants. The DCNF has obtained the poll but is not publishing it at the request of its source, who does not have permission to release it.
“The secret poll was commissioned by MAHA Action. It found that 68% or more of voters, across party lines, agreed that the NIH should study complications from giving infants too many vaccines too quickly, that the government should not provide blanket immunity to vaccine manufacturers, and that families should share responsibility over vaccination decisions. Just 11% said the government alone should decide. Forty-five percent said families should have the choice to spread out the vaccine schedule,” The HighWire wrote.
“That poll was buried. The White House instead used the reframed version to conclude that vaccines are a political loser, and last week fired Tracy Beth Hoeg, the official leading the effort to align the U.S. childhood vaccine schedule more closely with 20 other developed nations. Marty Makary is gone. Vinay Prasad is gone. The pollster who told them what voters actually think got a second assignment with better questions,” it added.
Trump’s Pollster Found Voters Were Highly Concerned About Vaccines. The Poll Never Saw Daylight
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“That framing contrasts with Trump’s own messaging as recently as December: That the U.S. childhood vaccination schedule is unusual compared to other Western nations and that the total impact has not been well studied,” Daily Caller noted.
“Trump reiterated that view in an interview on May 10,” it added.
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