cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/52546734

About half of rural voters identify with Make America Healthy Again, a sprawling political movement championed by the Trump administration, but most said Donald Trump’s healthcare policies have not benefited their communities, according to a new poll from The Associated Press in partnership with KFF.

About 8 in 10 rural voters — an important voting bloc for Trump and fellow Republicans — said the Trump administration’s policies have had a negative effect or no impact on the health of people where they live. Most MAHA supporters, 68%, also feel this way, according to the national survey of more than 2,000 rural registered voters.

The findings signal an apparent disconnect between the Trump administration’s MAHA-branded policy priorities and rural America’s perception of their reach and effectiveness.

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    14 hours ago

    In his first term Trump was going to kick some 700,000 off food stamp’s, it went to court and lost, Biden didn’t challenge that court loss,

    they then voted for it again and I’m sure when asked…

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      1 day ago

      Needle has barely started to move honestly, each upcoming year will be successively worse until we see a generation of dead kids from preventable illnesses, and even then…

      I think a lot about the Sagan quote about how we’ll drift off, our faculties in decline, into an age of crystal-gazing. It’s already happened so bad. I can’t watch reality TV, even like the Rehearsal, because by episode 2 there’s a numerologist who believes in Satanic murders. Too stupid to live, but happily voting. America.