Former Republican Rep. Jolly: GOP Trying to Kill Obama’s ‘Achievement’ with Health Care

‘Health care is a losing issue for Republicans’

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JOLLY: “Health care is a losing issue for Republicans. It was last a winning issue in the 2010 cycle, 2012, maybe a little bit into 2014 when ObamaCare was still slightly net negative. But it’s now popular with the American people. The only passions that this stokes, if you will, is the legacy anti-Obama elements within Trumpism. And those voters are passionate, they’re against anything that Obama was for. And so Donald Trump is speaking directly to them. What’s intriguing though, Andrea, is this, there is no legislative strategy -- forget that there’s even a plan. There is not even a legislative strategy to get anything through a Democratic-controlled House and a Republican-controlled Senate. This is simply a judicial strategy where they are banking on John Roberts switching his vote and ultimately killing President Obama’s signature health care achievement. And that in itself should say something. They are -- Republicans and Donald Trump are simply against the health care law as we know it. There is no plan. They’re going to fight this in court but they have no ability to replace it even if they had a plan.”
 

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