MAHA Supporters Say Trump’s Broken Promises Helped Democrats Win

Supporters of the Make America Healthy Again movement say President Donald Trump's unmet pledges on health cost Republicans votes in the midterms, which Democrats won decisively, taking both the House and the Senate. Activists describe some MAHA voters switching parties or staying home, though the scale of that shift, and whether it changed any specific race, is not known, according to Time.

Zen Honeycutt, who founded Moms Across America, says Trump vowed to confront pesticides and childhood illness and then did little, pointing to his February executive order favoring domestic glyphosate production. Her group endorsed 10 Democrats, among them Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Cory Booker and Chris Pappas, and nine won. It also backed dozens of Republican and independent candidates. Dr. Peter Lurie of the Center for Science in the Public Interest says firm conclusions need precise voting data, but even a small portion of the movement could have swung outcomes.

The movement rose in 2024 when Robert F. Kennedy Jr. brought his followers behind Trump and then took charge of the Department of Health and Human Services. A KFF poll in May found 41% of U. S. adults back MAHA.

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