RFK Jr.’s alliance with Trump is on tenterhooks

POLITICO · Amanda Chu, Carmen Paun · 2026-11-05 10:00 UTC

Republican losses threaten the rationale behind the health secretary’s deal with the president.

The MAHA and MAGA marriage is going through its roughest patch yet.

Tuesday’s sweep by the Democrats, along with waning support from some of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s biggest followers, suggests there’s plenty of reason for divorce. Kennedy now faces a gauntlet of hostile Democrats on Capitol Hill, while others are openly courting his supporters.

The union two years ago of Kennedy’s Make America Healthy Again movement and Donald Trump’s MAGA legions was one of convenience. Trump wanted to defeat Kamala Harris. Kennedy got a chance to pursue food, agriculture and vaccine policies that would have been anathema in earlier eras of Republican politics.

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