Scores of green beanies lined the halls of the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Thursday.
The forest green hats with white lettering adorned the heads of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s impassioned supporters, there to lend their energy to his bid to become the U.S.’s next Health and Human Services Secretary.
The caps read “Make America Healthy Again,” a slogan coined by Kennedy Jr. that has quickly become a rallying cry for a wildly diverse and unlikely political coalition.
“I was a former vegan,” Moms For America’s Christine McPherson told the Daily Caller.
Moms For America, a Trump-backing non-profit with their own political action committee (PAC), was among an astoundingly varied coalition of MAHA hopefuls who made the pilgrimage to see Kennedy Jr.
From Republicans to Democrats, Libertarians to Green Party stalwarts, Kennedy’s fan section ran the gamut of political persuasion.
Moms For America, for example — despite strongly supporting President Trump — are not all lifelong Republicans.
“In 2012 I voted for Obama,” McPherson continued. “Now we’re seeing RFK is talking about these things that are bringing carnivores and vegans together on a single issue that I think would have never, I would never have talked to a carnivore back in 2014.”
The other moms were quick to point their finger at Chana Walker, jokingly throwing the 37-year-old hairstylist under the bus for also voting for Obama.
“I would have voted for him twice,” she told the Caller.
But Walker voted for Trump in November, crediting Kennedy as “a big part” of why. She even said she considered voting for Kennedy instead of Trump.
“It was a draw between the two of them. I know that Trump was starting to talk about health stuff but not in the way that RFK is doing it,” Walker told the Caller.
The moms spoke of many of the issues Kennedy raised on the campaign trail while running an independent bid to become President, including regenerative farming, food additives, children’s health and water pollution. (RELATED: RFK Jr. Wants Fluoride Out Of Water — And It’s Not Nearly As Crazy As His Detractors Claim)
Shari Nielsen, another member of the organization, explained that health should not be politicized. She praised the contrasting mix of groups which Kennedy’s candidacy united, including environmentalists, health experts and more.
“Hippies, libertarians, all kinds of people are backing RFK. We’ve got everyone,” Nielsen told the Caller.
Moms For America pose in the Senate Dirksen Building outside the overflow room for Robert F. Kennedy’s Health and Human Services Committee confirmation hearing in the Senate Health, Labor, Education & Pensions (HELP) Committee. 1/30/25.
The moms were at the front of a long line, not to see RFK testify in front of the Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions (HELP) Committee, but to enter an overflow room packed with supporters who couldn’t fit into the actual hearing.
Making his way through the Dirksen halls was another strange bedfellow for Kennedy’s coalition: Kyle Kemper, the eccentric half-brother of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who announced his intent to resign earlier in January.
Kemper relayed how he had been an early adopter of the Kennedy campaign, jumping on board as a surrogate before Kennedy even officially announced his presidential bid.
“Once he declared that he was running for President, he hadn’t official declared but once the feelers first came out … I was like ‘man this guy would be the best President ever! If he runs for President I’m there,’” Kemper recalled.
Once Kennedy announced his bid, Kemper schlepped his family into a 34-foot RV, touring the continent and spreading the gospel of RFK Jr.
“In witnessing this journey, it was so telling to see … people generally everywhere are good people, they’ve just been frustrated and punched down by the system for a long time,” Kemper continued.
“Bobby was bringing a different message to the masses and it was …” he paused to take a long drag of his American spirit ” … it was really hopeful to see there was another way,” he exhaled.
Meet the ‘Black Sheep’ of the Trudeau clan: Why Justin’s MAGA brother who crashed RFK’s Senate hearing is NOT even the most cringeworthy in the Canadian first family https://t.co/aSGkI5XXVI pic.twitter.com/DwZvSJcqIx
— Daily Mail US (@DailyMail) January 29, 2025
A former donor to Canada’s Liberal Party, Kemper lambasted America’s Democrats as “the anti-democracy party.”
He described Kennedy’s initial process of trying to run for President as a Democrat before he abandoned the party for an independent bid. “When you see how corrupt the Democrats are, as we witnessed again yesterday,” he said in reference to the Democrats’ grilling of Kennedy in his Wednesday hearing in front of the Senate Finance Committee.
“They’re completely bought and paid for,” Kemper noted. (RELATED: Senate Committees Waging War On RFK Jr.’s MAHA Vision Are Knee Deep In Big Pharma, Food Industry Cash)
“There’s nothing democratic about this party,” he said, calling them “the party of projection.”
That projection was on full display Thursday after noted pharma critic Bernie Sanders erupted on Kennedy for pointing out his campaign coffers had been filled by pharma staffers in 2020.
Bernie Sanders EXPLODES on RFK Jr. after Kennedy reveals Sanders has accepted donations from pharma.
“In 2020 you were the single largest accepter of pharmaceutical dollars. $1.5 million,” Kennedy quipped.
“Yeah, out of $200 million,” Sanders replied. @DailyCaller pic.twitter.com/qns5hBd7EL
— Rob (@RobMcGravytrain) January 30, 2025
Another Kennedy devotee who the environmental lawyer pulled into the MAHA/MAGA coalition was Nancy Richards-Marcus, a mental health counselor from Massachusetts who is now the deputy co-chair for Team Kennedy in Berkshire County, Massachusetts.
She cited a number of issues that are common amongst Kennedy’s disciples: regenerative farming, medical freedom, organic food and additives.
Despite supporting the Green Party since 1983, Richards-Marcus signaled an openness to Trump and criticized those who dismiss him out of hand. “I think they’re pinwheel-eyed zombie brainwashed by the mainstream media, they can’t see reality, they’re all so filled with Trump Derangement Syndrome,” she said.
Kennedy Jr. opened the door for Richards-Marcus to embrace other Republican leaders, including, she told the Caller, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul.
“There’s some really good people and you know what, I’m in it! I like what the conservatives are saying. I think they’re correct. Protect the children!” she said enthusiastically.
To Richards-Marcus’s left was Camille Kiefel, a self-described former “far left” detransitioner from Oregon.
Kiefel, a biological woman, underwent a double mastectomy procedure in Oregon after a lifetime of seeking a remedy to her persistent depression.
“I had tried everything, and I asked my doctor about transitioning. I thought I was non-binary. At the time they approved it, within like five months, they approved and performed the surgery on me. There was very little friction. There was no pushback,” she explained. (RELATED: Harrowing Documentary Exposes Dangers Of Online Grooming And The Creeps Who Want To Trans Your Kids)
Kiefel said she immediately started experiencing physical complications which her doctors wrote off as “psychosomatic fever.”
After seeing conservative influencer Mikhaila Peterson tout the carnivore diet Kiefel, previously a pescatarian who sparingly ate fish, reintroduced meat and started seeing both her physical and mental symptoms alleviate.
“It’s weird that none of my doctors throughout the entire time, because they all knew I had generalized anxiety disorder and PTSD and ADHD, and they all knew all my comorbidities, but they weren’t actually willing to try diet at all,” Kiefer recalled.
The same “YouTube rabbit hole” that Kiefer found Peterson through led her to RFK.
“Because of the fact that my recovery, and then the transition, had been through, holistic health, that interested me,” she told the Caller.
Kiefer, who signed and circulated a petition for other detransitioners to support RFK’s nomination, latched on to Kennedy’s rhetoric on chronic illness.
“I was relieved to hear somebody talking about chronic illness, because I do have some chronic health issues,” she expressed. “He genuinely wants the best for people.”
Kiefer is not alone in looking to Kennedy as a change agent. His supporters see him as a beacon of hope. Kemper referred to him as “Bobby the remedy Kennedy.”
He received raucous applause numerous times during both of his hearings and when he left his Thursday appearance.
WATCH: RFK Jr. receives round of applause as he exits confirmation hearing pic.twitter.com/DPRWXFqOHo
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) January 30, 2025
One couple drove up from Pleasantville, South Carolina, just to see Kennedy. The man, who chose to only to identify himself as Tom, spoke of Kennedy’s HHS bid in existential terms.
“This is not a confirmation hearing. This is a war.”
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