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Former Kennedy Staffers Launch Pro-Trump PAC To ‘Make America Healthy Again’
By Tristan Justice, The Federalist.com, September 5, 2024
A new health-centered political action committee (PAC) launched Wednesday to push supporters for environmental lawyer Robert F. Kennedy to cast ballots in favor of former President Donald Trump.
The PAC, titled Make America Healthy Again (MAHA), is run by a dozen senior staffers who ran Kennedy’s independent presidential campaign. The third-party candidate dropped out to endorse the Republican nominee last month.
“Three great causes drove me to enter this race in the first place,” Kennedy said the day after Democrats concluded their convention in Chicago. “And these are the principle causes that persuaded me to leave the Democratic Party and run as an independent, and now to throw my support to President Trump.”
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— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) September 10, 2024
Kennedy’s endorsement immediately crashed the Democrats’ “sugar high” from the DNC, threatening to spoil Vice President Kamala Harris’s roughly two-point lead. The independent candidate polled around 5 percent throughout August in the aggregate of surveys by RealClearPolitics. (Click Here to Read about the real support of Kennedy.)
Kennedy ran on a three-pillared platform against censorship, a U.S.-funded forever war in Ukraine, and the runaway epidemic of chronic disease — a platform now at the center of a new campaign to drive independent votes for Trump.
“Our team, made up of former senior Kennedy campaign officials, is uniquely positioned to ensure that RFK Jr.’s supporters understand that his vision for a healthier, freer America will be best realized through electing President Trump,” Jeff Hutt, a spokesman for the new PAC, said in a statement. “We’re ready to bring this movement to every corner of the country.”
The organization’s press release outlines four primary areas the PAC plans to focus on in promoting candidates, including chronic disease, regenerative agriculture, conservation, and corporate corruption.
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“We want to be big, we want to be bold,” Hutt told The Federalist in an interview, making clear the new PAC will be supporting candidates in future cycles beyond this fall. The group launched with seed funding from former campaign supporters and volunteers and has set a goal of fundraising $3.5 million before Election Day.
Hutt said the new group will earn Kennedy and his coalition a better seat at the policy table in Washington with efforts he claims will swing key battleground states in Trump’s direction.
“Early polling said that the majority of our support is actually within swing states,” Hutt said, listing Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia, Arizona, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Nevada in particular.
Hutt also said the group could turn traditionally blue states, such as Oregon, New Mexico, New Jersey, and Rhode Island, into electoral battlegrounds. “Those are never red states, but we have a good enough support base,” Hutt said, “I think we could make a big statement in this election cycle and maybe not win [them] but make those states competitive and change the electoral landscape.”
Hutt said voters will be persuaded by Kennedy’s platform on personal health after decades of corporate-driven diet advice proliferated an epidemic of chronic disease. Indeed in the 1960s, when Kennedy’s uncle was president and his father the U.S. attorney general, American health spending was just 5 percent of gross domestic product. By 2021, it was more than 18 percent of GDP. Obesity rates have also tripled since the early 1960s ushered in the industrialization of the food supply and the low-fat diet craze.
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