Ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, President Donald Trump faces a multi-pronged rebellion inside his winning 2024 coalition.
According toPolitico, the president, without fanfare, has already received help in trying to pacify some of those rebels.
Turning Point USA CEO and chairErika Kirk, widow of slain TPUSA co-founder Charlie Kirk, quietly helped arrange what Politico called a “listening session” that allowed prominent Make America Healthy Again influencers to voice their frustrations directly to Trump, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and others in the administration.
The summit occurred earlier this month at the White House. All four individuals who spoke about it to Politico did so on condition of anonymity.
“Charlie was a coalition builder, right? Like, he tried to bring these groups together,” one of the session’s organizers said. “Erika, kind of taking the reins in that way and seeing what she could do, it’s exactly how Charlie also operated and handled issues like this.”
Two of the four anonymous sources also credited MAHA stalwart and White House senior adviser Calley Means, as well as White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, for bringing the influencers to the White House.
Like some other Trump supporters, many MAHA voters have expressed frustration and even feelings of betrayal.
In this case, the anger stems from Trump’s decision to protect the production of glyphosate, a chemical used in common weed-killers that many MAHA voters suspect of causing cancer.
In August 2024,Kennedyshook up the presidential race by joining forces with Trump. The resulting coalition, blending Kennedy’s MAHA with Trump’s Make America Great Again movement, helped Trump defeat then-Vice President Kamala Harris in a landslide.
Then, shortly after his confirmation as HHS Secretary, Kennedy pledged to examine all possible contributors to the chronic disease epidemic.
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