2026-11-08T17:00:15.189Z / CNN政治频道
在蓝色浪潮席卷数十个共和党席位后的第二天，“让美国再次健康”（Make America Healthy Again，简称MAHA）活动人士的情绪明显低落。
在MAHA行动（MAHA Action）每周三举办的电话会议上——该组织是这场运动最主要的政治筹款团体，原本活跃的氛围被其创始人托尼·莱昂斯和圈内活动人士的打气所取代。
曾在中期选举中被MAHA选为首个支持对象的爱荷华州共和党州长候选人扎克·兰恩，此次竞选失败，他试图淡化败选的严重程度，称其源于“一场糟糕的选举周期”。
在共和党遭遇这次惊人的挫败后，一些人公开询问是否需要调整竞选主张，以吸引关注两党议题的民主党人。
“我们看到MAHA和MAGA（让美国再次伟大）在某些方面出现的局部分裂，或许是件好事。重要的是，MAHA不应成为一个党派议题，”佛罗里达州外科总长、疫苗怀疑论者约瑟夫·拉达波在电话会上表示。
尽管部分民主党人表示，对争取那些关注健康食品与环保议题、可形成共同立场的MAHA盟友持开放态度，但这一立场转变将对过去两年将自身事业与唐纳德·特朗普总统的“让美国再次伟大”（MAGA）阵营及其极具争议的卫生与公众服务部部长罗伯特·肯尼迪（小，简称RFK Jr.）绑定的运动构成巨大考验。
民主党领导层和新任参议员承诺将对肯尼迪展开调查，甚至考虑启动弹劾程序，他们认为肯尼迪是疫情暴发和联邦医疗保健领域动荡的推手。
“我们应当纠正眼下华盛顿存在的混乱、高成本和腐败问题，通过让这些人为自己的行为负责来实现这一点，”南卡罗来纳州民主党众议员詹姆斯·克莱本周五对CNN的帕梅拉·布朗表示，他点名肯尼迪和国防部长皮特·赫格塞思是众议院多数党针对的两大目标。
两位新任民主党参议员——南卡罗来纳州的安妮·安德鲁斯和密歇根州的阿卜杜勒·阿尔-赛义德均为医生——也表达了相同观点，这使他们与那些将在健康食品获取等热门议题上与民主党合作的MAHA选民形成了早期分歧。
就连特朗普也警告称，政策调整不可避免，他在接受哥伦比亚广播公司《60分钟》采访时表示：“我喜欢我的内阁，我认为他们很优秀，但我可能会做一些调整。”
无论特朗普是否意在针对肯尼迪，一些民主党人已明确将其列为打击目标。
“除非罗伯特·肯尼迪（小）有意在未来两年接受国会委员会的质询，否则他现在就应该辞职，”佐治亚州参议员拉尔夫·沃诺克在X（原推特）上发文称。
卫生与公众服务部一名发言人在一份声明中表示：“肯尼迪部长推行了现代史上最全面的公共卫生改革。弹劾的威胁不会干扰他为美国人民谋福祉的工作。”
MAHA运动由三大核心支柱构成：推动健康食品、呼吁环境安全以及倡导“医疗自由”或疫苗选择。
前特朗普政府的卫生副助理部长大卫·曼斯多费尔表示，该运动内部一直存在分歧与共识，但他认为，在当前新的政治环境下，这些诉求将进一步分化。
“作为选举主体的MAHA对两党都重要，但它并非单一政策议题，”曼斯多费尔说，他是医疗自由的支持者，并称这一理念“深深植根于共和党纲领”，不太可能获得民主党盟友的支持。
民主党已将MAHA的共和党盟友击败，包括堪萨斯州参议员罗杰·马歇尔——他是其所在政党纲领中医疗自由观点的最坚定支持者，还曾冷落兰恩这样的新兴候选人。
但与此同时，即便曾与肯尼迪交锋的新任参议员也发现了争取MAHA选民的机会。
阿尔-赛义德在9月推出了一项“更健康美国”的议程，承诺解决食品、农业和水中的毒素问题——这是草根运动的核心主张。
曾为阿尔-赛义德竞选团队工作的民主党民调专家塞琳达·莱克表示，阿尔-赛义德和其他一些民主党人并不倾向于争取“反疫苗人士”，但希望与“关注有机食品和农药的母亲群体”达成重要共识。“这至关重要，因为这是一个庞大的郊区选民群体，存在着争取支持的切实可能性。”
长期以来一直致力于争取MAHA选民支持的缅因州民主党众议员切利·平格雷，于今年秋季成立了“修复食品核心小组”。她表示，成立该小组是为了“尝试为我们认为对最广泛群体最重要的事物提供一些视角”。
“我愿意在能取得关切议题进展时，与本政府的白宫方面任何人合作，但不会支持他们的任何负面议程，”平格雷周五告诉CNN，“如果罗伯特·肯尼迪（小）挺过所有风波，我希望我们能将焦点转回健康食品、‘食物即药物’理念，并理顺美国疾控中心和疫苗相关工作。”
MAHA行动创始人莱昂斯在收到一条询问“是否有值得合作的民主党人”的短信后，回复道：“我永远充满希望！”
平格雷将出任众议院内政、环境及相关机构拨款小组委员会主席，她表示正在寻求问责。
“我不认为民主党会有大规模的弹劾议程，但我们有太多工作要做——调查、发出传票、调取记录、调查勾结行为，”她说。
她告诉CNN，明年1月民主党掌权后，她“肯定”会传唤美国环境保护署署长李·曾丁，就环境毒素去监管化以及政府与草甘膦除草剂主要生产商拜耳公司的合作展开质询——拜耳也是MAHA支持者的主要目标之一。
在参议院，两位新任参议员——民主党人阿尔-赛义德和南卡罗来纳州的儿科医生安妮·安德鲁斯（她曾称肯尼迪为“骗子”）——均表示将启动对这位卫生部长的弹劾程序。肯尼迪的严厉批评者指责他散播虚假信息、破坏联邦赠款分配体系、损害公共卫生，并认为这些行为构成弹劾理由。
但对民主党而言，这是一个微妙的平衡。将MAHA选民团结在一起的共同纽带是肯尼迪。
曼斯多费尔表示：“所有这三派都仍然非常支持肯尼迪部长，他们会观察他在这一过程中受到的对待，来判断他们是否能全面感觉可以开展跨党派合作。”
MAHA核心倡导者如“美国母亲”（Moms Across America）创始人岑·霍尼卡特，已公开警告弹劾肯尼迪对民主党而言将是“灾难性错误”。
“任何将肯尼迪视为盟友的独立选民——我认为他们中的大多数都如此——如果你们针对肯尼迪，就永远不会再投票给民主党，”她在MAHA行动电话会上表示。
与此同时，特朗普政府似乎在核心优先事项上立场坚定。周六，总统呼吁司法部调查他所称的“威胁”要弹劾的民主党人。
在中期选举惨败后仍持续产生余波的背景下，特朗普周五宣布，他的幕僚长苏西·怀尔斯将离职，由斯蒂芬·米勒接任。
该公告发布前一小时，长期担任MAHA倡导者、前白宫顾问卡利·米恩斯在社交媒体上发布了一段两小时的播客，将进展停滞的大部分责任归咎于怀尔斯和华盛顿的企业利益集团。
“苏西·怀尔斯是现代美国史上最具权势的幕僚长，她控制了任何政策决策，”米恩斯在《乔·罗根体验》播客中表示，他是肯尼迪的亲密盟友，“每个内阁部长开会时，都时刻担心如何讨好苏西。”
肯尼迪迅速称赞了任命米勒为幕僚长的决定，并指出他作为MAHA支持者的资格。“除了我，斯蒂芬·米勒是政府中最坚定的MAHA支持者。是时候放开‘海怪’（指激进行动）了，”这位卫生部长周五在X上发文称。
他的盟友们同时向民主党发出挑战。
“来吧，鲍比，”米恩斯周五下午在X上发文，“民主党也说过他们想解决这些问题，我们可以在未来一年实现历史性改革。”
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MAHA makes its case to Democrats as blue wave crashes GOP alliance and threatens RFK Jr.
2026-11-08T17:00:15.189Z / CNN Politics
One day after the blue wave that swept away dozens of Republican seats, the mood among Make America Healthy Again activists was palpably glum.
On a weekly Wednesday call hosted by MAHA Action, the most prominent political fundraising group for the movement, the normally enthusiastic atmosphere was replaced by pep talks from its founder Tony Lyons and advocates active in its circles.
Zach Lahn, the losing Iowa Republican gubernatorial candidate who had been MAHA’s first endorsement of the midterms, sought to downplay the scale of the rout, putting it down to “a terrible cycle”.
In the wake of the stunning Republican defeat, some are openly asking whether to recast their message to appeal to Democrats on bipartisan issues.
“The partial fracture we’ve seen between MAHA and MAGA in some ways may be a good thing. It’s important that MAHA not be a partisan issue,” Joseph Ladapo, Florida’s surgeon general and a vaccine skeptic, said on the call.
But while some Democrats have expressed an openness to courting MAHA allies whose concerns about healthy food and the environment can be common ground, a pivot would present an enormous test to a movement that for the past two years married its cause to President Donald Trump’s ‘Make America Great Again’ base and his divisive Health and Human Services Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Democratic leadership and incoming senators are promising investigations and even a possible impeachment vote for Kennedy, who they see as the face of disease outbreaks and federal upheaval over health care.
“We ought to be pursuing some corrections to the chaos, the cost, and the corruption that’s running rapid in Washington today, and we can do that by moving to make these people account for their actions,” Rep. James Clyburn of South Carolina told CNN’s Pamela Brown on Friday, naming Kennedy and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth as the House majority’s top two targets.
Incoming Democratic senators, including South Carolina’s Annie Andrews and Michigan’s Abdul El-Sayed — both doctors — have echoed that sentiment, putting them at early odds with MAHA voters who see opportunities to work with Democrats on popular issues like access to healthier food.
Even Trump has warned that shifts should be expected, telling CBS’s 60 Minutes: “”I love my Cabinet. I think they’re good. But I’ll … be doing maybe a few changes.”
Whether Trump has Kennedy in mind or not, some Democrats have made it clear he’s in their crosshairs.
“Unless RFK Jr. is interested in spending the next two years in front of Congressional committees, he should go ahead and resign now,” Sen. Ralph Warnock of Georgia posted to X.
An HHS spokesperson said in a statement: “Secretary Kennedy has delivered the most sweeping public health reforms in modern history.”
“Threats of impeachment will not distract him from delivering for the American people.”
Three tent poles make up the MAHA movement — a drive for healthier food, demand for environmental safety and advocacy for ‘medical freedom,’ or vaccine choice.
There have always been both fractures and overlaps within the movement, said David Mansdoerfer, a former deputy assistant secretary for health during the first Trump administration. But in the new political environment, these interests will more clearly diverge, he said.
“MAHA as an electoral body is an important one for both parties, but MAHA isn’t a like, single policy issue,” said Mansdoerfer, a proponent of medical freedom, which he said is “pretty staunchly built into the Republican platform” and unlikely to find Democratic allies.
Democrats swept Republican MAHA allies from office, including Kansas Sen. Roger Marshall, who most notably backed the medical freedom vein of its platform and snubbed new contenders like Lahn.
But at the same time, even incoming senators who have tussled with Kennedy spot opportunities to court MAHA voters.
El-Sayed in September debuted an agenda for a ‘Healthier America’ that promises to tackle toxins in food, agriculture and water — core tenets of the grassroots movement.
El-Sayed and some other Democrats are less likely to court the “anti-vaxxers” but see important strides to be made with “organic and pesticide moms,” said Celinda Lake, a Democratic pollster who worked with El-Sayed’s campaign. “That is very important because it’s a big suburban audience and there is a real possibility of making gains.”
Rep. Chellie Pingree, a Democratic Maine congresswoman who has long pitched making inroads with MAHA voters, launched the Fix Our Food Caucus this fall. She said she did so “to try to give a little a little bit of perspective on the things that we think are most important to the broadest group of people.”
“I’m willing to work with anyone on the White House in this administration, when we can make some gains on things we care about, but not to support any of their negative agenda,” Pingree told CNN on Friday. “If RFK survives all this, I hope we can get the focus back on healthier foods, food is medicine, and straighten out the CDC and vaccine side of it.”
Asked in a text message if there are Democrats he is hopeful about working with, Lyons, the MAHA Action founder, replied: “I’m always hopeful!!!”
Pingree, who will assume chairmanship of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies, says she is looking for accountability.
“I don’t think Democrats will have a huge impeachment agenda, but I think we have so much work — investigating, subpoenaing, getting down to records, looking for collusion,” she said.
She told CNN that when Democrats take over in January she is “absolutely” going to call in Lee Zeldin, director of the Environmental Protection Agency, over deregulation of environmental toxins and the administration’s work with Bayer, the main manufacturer of commonly used herbicide glyphosate — another major target for MAHA supporters.
In the Senate, both El-Sayed and Annie Andrews, the South Carolina Democratic senator-elect and pediatrician — who has called Kennedy a “grifter” – have said they would launch impeachment proceedings against the health secretary. His harshest critics have accused him of spreading misinformation, dismantling government grant distributions and undermining public health, arguing these are grounds for impeachment.
But it’s a delicate balance for Democrats. The common thread holding MAHA voters together is Kennedy.
“All three of those factions are still very supportive of Secretary Kennedy, and a lot of them will look at how he is treated in this process to whether they can fully feel like they can work in a bipartisan manner,” Mansdoerfer said.
Prominent MAHA advocates such as Zen Honeycutt, founder of Moms Across America, have publicly warned that impeaching Kennedy would be a “colossal mistake” for Democrats.
“Any of those independents who consider Kennedy their champion — which I would say is probably most of them — are not going to vote Democrat at all ever if they mess with Kennedy,” she argued on the MAHA Action call.
In the meantime, the Trump administration appears to be digging its heels in on some of its core priorities. On Saturday, the president called on the Justice department to investigate Democrats he said were “going around threatening” impeachment.
In a sign of the ongoing fallout from the midterms rout, Trump on Friday announced that his chief of staff, Susie Wiles, was leaving and being replaced with Stephen Miller.
The announcement came within an hour of longtime MAHA advocate and former White House advisor Calley Means sharing on social media a two-hour podcast that laid most of the blame for stalled progress on Wiles and corporate interests in DC.
“Susie Wiles is the most powerful chief of staff in modern American history, and she has taken a stranglehold on any policy decision,” Means, a close Kennedy ally, said on the Joe Rogan Experience. “Every single cabinet secretary, they’re spending meetings constantly worrying about how to get on Susie’s good side.”
Kennedy swiftly praised Miller’s appointment to chief of staff, citing his bonafides as a MAHA supporter. “Next to me, Stephen Miller is the strongest MAHA supporter in the administration. It’s time to unleash the Kraken,” the health secretary wrote Friday on X.
His allies, meanwhile, issued a challenge to Democrats.
“Let’s go Bobby,” Means posted on X Friday afternoon. “Democrats said they wanted to fix these things too, We can achieve histor[ic] reform in the next year.”
Adam Cancryn contributed to this report.
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