{"id":2337258,"date":"2024-09-05T13:35:02","date_gmt":"2024-09-05T17:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-kennedy-backed-pac-aims-to-make-america-healthy-again\/"},"modified":"2024-09-05T13:41:00","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T17:41:00","slug":"new-kennedy-backed-pac-aims-to-make-america-healthy-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-kennedy-backed-pac-aims-to-make-america-healthy-again\/","title":{"rendered":"New Kennedy-Backed PAC Aims To &#8216;Make America Healthy Again&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnew-kennedy-backed-pac-aims-to-make-america-healthy-again%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2337258&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-employee-at-mar-a-lago-retracts-false-testimony-implicates-trump-court-docs\/\" title=\"Mar-A-Lago staff member recants &#039;false testimony,&#039; implicates Trump: court papers.\">political action\u200d committee<\/a> (PAC) called Make America Healthy \u2063Again \u200c(MAHA) was established to support\u2064 environmental lawyer Robert F. \u200bKennedy&#8217;s endorsement \u200cof \u200bformer President Donald Trump. The PAC is managed by key staff from Kennedy&#8217;s independent presidential campaign, which he \u2063exited to back\u200d Trump after the Democratic National Convention. Kennedy emphasized his commitment to three main issues: combating censorship, opposition\u2064 to the U.S. military involvement in Ukraine, and addressing the rise of chronic diseases in America. <\/p>\n<p>The \u2063formation of the\u200d PAC aims to mobilize Kennedy&#8217;s \u2064followers \u200dto back Trump, particularly in swing states such as Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia, and\u2064 Arizona. With a target of raising $3.5 million \u2062before the\u2062 election,\u200d the PAC \u2064will focus\u2064 on chronic disease, regenerative agriculture, \u2063conservation, and corporate corruption. It seeks \u2063to position Kennedy&#8217;s health-oriented platform\u2063 favorably in the \u2064political dialogue and \u2064affect electoral outcomes, including making traditionally blue states more competitive.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The PAC, titled Make America Healthy Again (MAHA), is run by a dozen senior staffers who ran Kennedy&rsquo;s independent presidential campaign. The third-party candidate dropped out to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/08\/23\/rfk-jr-drops-out-of-2024-race-endorses-trump-for-president\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">endorse<\/a> the Republican nominee last month.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Three great causes drove me to enter this race in the first place,&rdquo; Kennedy said the day after Democrats concluded their convention in Chicago. &ldquo;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.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy&rsquo;s endorsement immediately crashed the Democrats&rsquo; &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5atlanta.com\/news\/kemp-says-dnc-is-sugar-high-voices-full-throated-support-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sugar high<\/a>&rdquo; from the DNC, threatening to spoil Vice President Kamala Harris&rsquo;s roughly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolling.com\/polls\/president\/general\/2024\/trump-vs-harris\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">two-point lead<\/a>. The independent candidate polled around <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolling.com\/polls\/president\/general\/2024\/trump-vs-harris-vs-kennedy-vs-stein-vs-west\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">5 percent<\/a> throughout August in the aggregate of surveys by RealClearPolitics.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy ran on a three-pillared platform against censorship, a U.S.-funded forever war in Ukraine, and the runaway epidemic of chronic disease &mdash; a platform now at the center of a new campaign to drive independent votes for Trump.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[RELATED:[RELATED:<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/08\/27\/the-lefts-abandonment-of-personal-health-drove-rfk-jr-from-the-democrat-party\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Left&rsquo;s Abandonment Of Personal Health Drove RFK Jr. From The Democrat Party<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Our team, made up of former senior Kennedy campaign officials, is uniquely positioned to ensure that RFK Jr.&rsquo;s supporters understand that his vision for a healthier, freer America will be best realized through electing President Trump,&rdquo; Jeff Hutt, a spokesman for the new PAC, said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/make-america-healthy-again-pac.prowly.com\/348466-make-america-healthy-again-maha-super-pac-launches-with-rfk-jrendorsement-of-donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">statement<\/a>. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re ready to bring this movement to every corner of the country.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The organization&rsquo;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.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We want to be big, we want to be bold,&rdquo; 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.<\/p>\n<p>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hispanic-vote-is-breaking-heavily-for-trump\/\" title=\"Hispanic voters are significantly favoring Trump\">swing key battleground states<\/a> in Trump&rsquo;s direction.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Early polling said that the majority of our support is actually within swing states,&rdquo; Hutt said, listing Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia, Arizona, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Nevada in particular.<\/p>\n<p>Hutt also said the group could turn traditionally blue states, such as Oregon, New Mexico, New Jersey, and Rhode Island, into electoral battlegrounds. &ldquo;Those are never red states, but we have a good enough support base,&rdquo; Hutt said, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Hutt said voters will be persuaded by Kennedy&rsquo;s platform on personal health after decades of corporate-driven diet advice proliferated an epidemic of chronic disease. Indeed in the 1960s, when Kennedy&rsquo;s uncle was president and his father the U.S. attorney general, American health spending was just&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/statistics\/184968\/us-health-expenditure-as-percent-of-gdp-since-1960\/#:~:text=In%202021%2C%20U.S.%20national%20health,GDP%20share%20among%20developed%20countries.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">5 percent<\/a>&nbsp;of gross domestic product. By 2021, it was more than 18 percent of GDP. Obesity rates have also&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/usafacts.org\/articles\/obesity-rate-nearly-triples-united-states-over-last-50-years\/#:~:text=In%20the%20early%201960s%2C%20roughly,obesity%20rate%20closer%20to%2043%25.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tripled<\/a>&nbsp;since the early 1960s ushered in the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foodprocessing.com\/home\/article\/11365303\/a-history-of-food-processing-anniversary-edition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">industrialization<\/a>&nbsp;of the food supply and the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC9794145\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ramaswamy-won-the-debate-about-health-care-no-one-else-is-willing-to-tackle\/\" title=\"Ramaswamy triumphs in tackling neglected health care debate\">low-fat diet craze<\/a><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;When he was in office, obesity was at 13 percent. Today it&rsquo;s at 45 percent,&rdquo; Kennedy said, while just &ldquo;6 percent of Americans had chronic disease,&rdquo; compared to 54 percent by 2006.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">JFK was dedicated to making Americans the healthiest people on earth. Now, RFK Jr. Is making that his mission.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MAHA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MAHA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oCOzbdllrL\">pic.twitter.com\/oCOzbdllrL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RobertKennedyJr\/status\/1829209473065595227?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 29, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>After condemning censorship and warmongers in his endorsement speech last month, Kennedy <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/08\/23\/rfk-jr-trashes-estrogenic-seed-oils-in-trump-endorsement-speech\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">slammed<\/a> the American health care system as a sick care system overwhelmed by artificial foods &ldquo;poisoning all of our children and our adults.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We spend more on health care than any country on Earth,&rdquo; Kennedy said, &ldquo;and we have the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/aaron-rodgers-appears-to-endorse-covid-vaccine-skeptic-robert-f-kennedy-jr-for-president\/\" title=\"Aaron Rodgers Appears to Endorse COVID Vaccine Skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. For President\">worst health outcomes<\/a> of any nation. &hellip; Nobody has a chronic disease burden like we have.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Two days after his endorsement, Kennedy published a poster on X featuring a handshake with Trump above a banner pledging to &ldquo;Make America Healthy Again.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<hr>\n<p>      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 Tristan@thefederalist.com. Sign up for Tristan&#8217;s email newsletter <a href=\"https:\/\/socialjusticeredux.substack.com\/about\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new political action committee (PAC) focused on health was established on Wednesday to encourage supporters of environmental attorney Robert F. Kennedy to vote for former President Donald Trump. Named Make America Healthy Again (MAHA), the PAC is managed by a team of twelve senior staff members from Kennedy&#8217;s independent presidential campaign, which he exited last month to endorse the Republican nominee. <\/p>\n<p>Kennedy stated, \u201cThree significant causes motivated me to enter this race initially,\u201d following the conclusion of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. He explained that these core issues led him to leave the Democratic Party and run as an independent, ultimately supporting President Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy\u2019s endorsement disrupted the Democrats&#8217; momentum from their convention and posed a challenge to Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019s narrow lead in polls. Throughout August, Kennedy garnered about 5 percent support according to RealClearPolitics surveys.<\/p>\n<p>His campaign was built around three main pillars: opposing censorship, criticizing U.S. involvement in Ukraine&#8217;s ongoing conflict, and addressing the rising epidemic of chronic diseases\u2014issues that are now central to a new initiative aimed at attracting independent voters for Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Hutt, a spokesperson for MAHA, expressed confidence that their team is well-equipped to communicate Kennedy&#8217;s vision for a healthier and freer America through Trump&#8217;s election. The PAC aims to promote candidates focusing on chronic disease management, regenerative agriculture practices, conservation efforts, and tackling corporate corruption.<\/p>\n<p>Hutt emphasized their ambition during an interview with The Federalist: \u201cWe want our presence felt widely and boldly,\u201d indicating plans for future electoral cycles beyond this fall\u2019s elections. The group has launched with initial funding from past campaign supporters and aims to raise $3.5 million before Election Day.<\/p>\n<p>According to Hutt, this initiative will enhance Kennedy&#8217;s influence in Washington policy discussions while potentially swaying key battleground states toward Trump\u2019s favor\u2014particularly Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia, Arizona, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Nevada.<\/p>\n<p>He also mentioned that traditionally blue states like Oregon and New Mexico could become competitive due to their support base: \u201cWhile those states have never been red before,\u201d he said confidently about making them electoral battlegrounds this cycle.<\/p>\n<p>Hutt believes voters will resonate with Kennedy&#8217;s health platform after decades of corporate-driven dietary advice leading to widespread chronic illnesses\u2014a stark contrast from when health spending was only 5 percent of GDP during JFK\u2019s presidency compared with over 18 percent today; obesity rates have also tripled since then due largely in part due industrialized food production methods introduced during that era.<\/p>\n<p>In his recent communications on social media platform X (formerly Twitter), Kennedy highlighted alarming statistics comparing current obesity rates\u201445 percent\u2014to just 13 percent when his uncle held office while chronic disease prevalence rose dramatically over time as well.<\/p>\n<p>After denouncing censorship along with warmongers during his endorsement speech last month,Kennedy criticized America&#8217;s healthcare system as one overwhelmed by unhealthy processed foods harming both children and adults alike stating: &#8220;We spend more on healthcare than any other nation yet have some of the worst outcomes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Just two days post-endorsement,Kennedy shared an image featuring himself shaking hands with Trump alongside a banner declaring intentions behind MAHA\u2014to &#8220;Make America Healthy Again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":2337259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/53952973703_9177d267ea_k-e1725553794274.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[38313,5111,40198,7409,40199],"class_list":["post-2337258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-health-policy","tag-kennedy","tag-make-america-healthy-again","tag-pac","tag-political-action"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/53952973703_9177d267ea_k-e1725553794274.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2337258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2337258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2337258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2337259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2337258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2337258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2337258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}