Leibovich: If GOP Passes Health Care ‘It Actually Would Give Democrats a Message’

‘It would give Democrats something to run on in addition to Trump’

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LEIBOVICH: "And I think the math actually obviously doesn’t work in presidential equations either, as the Democrats found out here. No, they do. And I think it might be a little bit misguided to talk about the message that Democrats might lack here, because as Debbie Dingell pointed out, these are very specific and pointed messages that every congressional district has to do. I do think that one perhaps benefit of health care, if Republicans pass it, is it actually would give Democrats a message. It would give Democrats something to run on in addition to Trump. And right now, there is absolutely no— I mean, the economic populism that Congressman Ryan was talking about is as close as he was going these days to that.”

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