Overview
- Six prominent figures in the Make America Healthy Again movement, who together reach millions online, say many supporters now plan to stay home in November, creating a turnout risk for Republicans.
- Conservative wellness voices Alex Clark and Vani Hari say followers feel Republicans lied to them and are not planning to vote, a mood echoed by an Iowa mother and cancer survivor who said Kennedy’s backing of a glyphosate order left her betrayed.
- The movement is largely made up of white, female, wellness-minded voters who followed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. into President Trump’s coalition and now express deep disappointment with the administration.
- A central grievance is Trump’s executive order to expand domestic production of glyphosate, a widely used weedkiller that critics link to cancer, which MAHA activists had wanted restricted or banned.
- Kennedy, who leads Health and Human Services, defended the glyphosate move as necessary for national security and the food supply, while Democratic pollster Celinda Lake said the discontent creates a clear opening if Democrats work to earn these votes.