Ahead of the November midterm elections, Democrats are making a play to peel away as many tenuous Republican voters as they can. If Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) gets his way, a core group of voters that his party will go after is the “Make America Healthy Again” movement.Booker recently implored Democrats not to fight the MAHA movement at a gathering of liberals in Washington.“We should be telling those loving moms and dads that they are right, right about the chemicals, right about the ultra-processed foods, right about the chronic disease, right that something in America is profoundly broken,” Booker said at the Center for American Progress’s Ideas Conference.
The MAHA movement, a diverse coalition of groups, coalesced around Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s concerns that too many factors in the United States were making people sicker at the expense of enriching the coffers of corporate America. The movement has mostly also aligned with the Trump administration, but Booker believes that Democrats may have an inroad to winning MAHA voters over.
The Monsanto Company v. Durnell case has caused some frustrations from MAHA advocates after the Trump administration supported Bayer, the maker of RoundUp. Bayer manufactures the herbicide glyphosate, the main chemical in RoundUp.
