'Republicans lied': GOP warned broken promises will keep MAHA voters home for midterms
A once-prominent support group for President Donald Trump and the GOP has warned that they may take their votes elsewhere at the midterm elections.
Sheryl Gay Stolberg, writing in The New York Times, highlighted the growing dissatisfaction with the Make America Healthy Again movement. Leading MAHA figures, who backed Department of Health and Human Services head RFK Jr., say they feel disillusioned with the Republican Party and the Trump cabinet's choices.
Stolberg wrote, "Not quite two years later, the MAHA movement is still a political force. But MAHA leaders warn that many of those who embrace the cause are dispirited and disillusioned — and that when the November elections come around, some may just stay home.
"Six of the movement’s most prominent leaders, who together have millions of social media followers, said in separate interviews that the mostly white, mostly female voters who followed Mr. Kennedy into Mr. Trump’s camp are so disappointed with the president that Republicans risk losing them. But they said Democrats would need to work hard to win their votes," according to the report.
Conservative young wellness podcaster Alex Clark said, "Republicans would be stupid, moronic, to let these voters just slip through our fingers." Clark, as well as wellness personality Vani Hari, worry that MAHA will abandon the party during a crucial election period.
Clark, who works for Turning Point USA, added, "They have nowhere to go. They feel like their vote is useless. They have lost the energy. They have lost the enthusiasm. They feel like the Democrats don’t care about them. They feel like the Republicans lied to them, and they’re not planning on voting."
Celinda Lake, a Democratic pollster, has suggested the party could sweep up the MAHA movement during the midterms and that they could not afford to lose out on what could be a major swing country-wide.
"There is an incredible opening for Democrats, and we should not miss this opportunity," she said.
Trump had previously reversed core campaign promises, sparking fury among MAHA supporters. Most notably, Trump signed an executive order expanding glyphosate production, a pesticide that MAHA activists demanded be banned.