Ex-Kennedy Staffers Launch PAC To ‘Make America Healthy Again’ 

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.”

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.

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.

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“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.

“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.

Kennedy shared a video on X last week outlining the empirical comparisons of today with the time when his uncle was promoting national fitness programs as president.

“When he was in office, obesity was at 13 percent. Today it’s at 45 percent,” Kennedy said, while just “6 percent of Americans had chronic disease,” compared to 54 percent by 2006.

After condemning censorship and warmongers in his endorsement speech last month, Kennedy slammed the American health care system as a sick care system overwhelmed by artificial foods “poisoning all of our children and our adults.”

“We spend more on health care than any country on Earth,” Kennedy said, “and we have the worst health outcomes of any nation. … Nobody has a chronic disease burden like we have.”

Two days after his endorsement, Kennedy published a poster on X featuring a handshake with Trump above a banner pledging to “Make America Healthy Again.”

Tristan Justice is the western correspondent for The Federalist and the author of Social Justice Redux, a conservative newsletter on culture, health, and wellness. He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at [email protected]. Sign up for Tristan’s email newsletter here.