MAHA Offers Midterm Gift to GOP

By The MAHA Report

In a memo dated February 11, addressed to RNC Chairman Joe Gruters, NRSC Chairman Tim Scott, and NRCC Chairman Richard Hudson, MAHA Action President Tony Lyons wrote that the MAHA movement is “a once in a generation political gift to the GOP.”

Lyons continued, “[MAHA] promises to expand the Republican base and help the GOP win future elections—in the midterms and beyond.”

Lyons went on to say that for the GOP to win the midterms they must show their support for MAHA.

The memo, which copied Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson, was republished in POLITICO, which broke the story with the headline, “RFK Jr. ally says GOP risks losing his supporters.”

As reported by POLITICO, Lyons wrote, “We need to convince every Republican to buy into the MAHA movement, just like Trump has.”

Lyons, POLITICO writes, “encouraged Republicans to talk more about five of Kennedy’s policy goals:

— getting Americans to eat real food instead of ultraprocessed,

— making it more affordable to live a healthy life,

— removing toxins from food,

— limiting pesticides in agriculture, and

— addressing “overmedicalization” in children.

If Republicans own these issues, Lyons argued, they can appeal to undecided voters and Democrats who prioritize their health.”

As POLITICO reports, “The memo reads like a warning to Republicans that if they don’t put their backs into the MAHA agenda, they could lose MAHA voters’ support and see the Trump-Kennedy coalition of 2024 fracture.”

But Lyons told POLITICO, “It’s not a warning. It’s an offering of a gift.”

Lyons made clear to POLITICO and elsewhere that MAHA is a political force with the power to impact the midterms through the MAHA PAC, which recently followed President Trump’s lead and endorsed GOP Rep. Julia Letlow in her challenge to Senator Bill Cassidy, the incumbent Republican doctor.

“We recognize that some Republicans haven’t really bought into the MAHA movement yet. But they’re not far from it, and they’re open to it, and they need just some education, some tools, and we’re going to provide those for them,” Lyons told POLITICO.

He continued, “We’re going to be well-funded. And you know, people who are willing to discuss these things with us, who are willing to get on board with the team that the president has set up, we would really like to have discussions with them, to help them, to support them, to endorse them, to run ads for them, to do mailings for them, to send emails, to send text messages.”

The MAHA PAC will only endorse Republican candidates, Lyons told POLITICO.

“If you look at the votes that have been taken, and if you look at the confirmation hearings, you see that it really came down to party line votes, and so it’s very hard to imagine that it would make any sense to back a Democratic candidate,” Lyons said.