Tony Lyons knows how Republicans can win the midterm elections later this year. All they need to do, as he explained in a memo to GOP leaders in February, is embrace the Make America Healthy Again movement, or at least the popular parts of it, like banning soda from SNAP benefits and ditching artificial food dyes. Divisive anti-vaccine issues, in contrast, must be 'addressed carefully and with nuance.' Follow this plan, insists Lyons'who is president of MAHA Action, a nonprofit that promotes Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s agenda'and the 'MAHA Winnable Middle' will be yours. In recent weeks, MAHA diehards have been fuming, particularly after Donald Trump signed an executive order shielding manufacturers of the widely used weed killer glyphosate from liability. Some studies suggest that glyphosate exposure leads to cancer, and MAHA activists want it banned. More recent setbacks for Kennedy'such as Casey Means's stalled bid for surgeon general and a federal judge's...
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