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Trump Won With the MAHA Vote. Now He Might Be Losing It.

A new poll shows Make America Healthy Again supporters are drifting from Trump, but their “health first” politics may reshape conservative politics in the process.

Reem Ibrahim | 4.9.2026 3:04 PM

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President Donald Trump was reelected, in part, because he reached new voters by vowing to "Make America Healthy Again." It's been more than a year since he returned to the Oval Office, and Americans are growing frustrated with his progress on this promise.

That's the result of a recent Politico poll, which found that 52 percent of Americans think the Trump administration "has not done enough to make America healthy again." Notably, only 45 percent of respondents who self-identified as members of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement said Trump has done enough to make the country healthy.

The poll also revealed significant disagreements within the movement. Despite comprising a significant share of the population, about one-third of respondents said they identified as MAHA, but only 50 percent of the group said they could explain what MAHA is. Meanwhile, only six issues garnered a majority of support from MAHA respondents to be deemed key priorities of the movement.........

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