Heidi Przybyla: ‘No Sign’ GOP Has ‘Made Any Kind of Progress’ on Health Care

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PRZYBYLA: "Because if you see those members of Congress coming out of these hours long meetings with the President, they say that they’re optimistic, but there’s no sign that they’ve made any kind of progress on the specifics. And to his base, here’s the irony, Republicans all along have thought 'If we don’t get this done, boy, are we going to be punished because we’ve been promising this to the base for eight plus years.' But now if you drill down and look at some of the polling stats in Trump districts, this plan is exceedingly unpopular, and I think adding to the nervousness of these moderates is essentially a fundamental recalculation of the politics that maybe, after all, it’s better if we just don’t cast this vote. That is in contrast to what the thinking has been for the past eight years, that if we don’t at least take a vote, we’re going to get punished. The stats, now that the plan is out, are not looking good. And I take you back to what Pat Toomey said which is they were caught flat-footed. They didn’t actually expect Trump to win and they had to cobble this thing together, and it’s not popular even among their base."