Ahead of the Nov. 3 midterm elections, congressional Democrats are pushing to peel away tenuous Republican voters. Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) is pushing it a step further, targeting a relatively new element in President Donald Trump’s MAGA coalition: the “Make America Healthy Again” movement.Booker, a vegan, recently implored Democrats not to fight the MAHA movement, even if it means embracing some fans of Trump, a reviled figure in liberal circles.“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, a gathering of liberal wonks, in Washington, D.C.
Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) addresses a rally in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of Monsanto Company v. Durnell on April 27. (Sue Dorfman/ZUMA Press Wire via Newscom)
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 corporate America’s coffers. The movement has also mostly aligned with the Trump administration. But Booker, 57, believes Democrats may have an inroad to winning over MAHA voters.
