‘We’ll Let Obamacare Fail and Then the Democrats Are Going to Come to Us’ Trump Says
President Donald Trump wants nothing to do with the failure of the Republican bill to repeal and replace ObamaCare. The Senate bill died Monday overnight. Hours later Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced in light of the bill’s failure the Senate would vote for a total repeal bill to be enacted two years later, allowing lawmakers to maybe create a new “replacement.”
Just before sitting down to lunch with Republican Senators Tuesday afternoon, in a meeting expected to be “explosive,” Trump told reporters on-camera, “I’m not going to own it,” referring to the repeal and replace failure.
“I’m not going to own it,” the President said. “I can tell you the Republicans are not going to own it. We’ll let Obamacare fail and then the Democrats are going to come to us.”
Trump also took a strong swipe at Democrats, calling them “obstructionists” who have “no ideas” and “no thought process.”
Threatening to “let Obamacare fail” literally means the president is threatening to let Americans die, as studies show thousands will die each year if ObamaCare is repealed.
Will Trump’s plan to tke no responsibility work?
“There are two big problems with this conceptually,” Vox reports. “One is that it’s simply very unlikely an incumbent president can convince voters to not blame him for bad things that are happening. That’s simply not how politics works — 59 percent of people tell a Kaiser Family Foundation poll that they’ll blame Republicans. The other is that huge swathes of Obamacare — notably Medicaid expansion but also the exchanges in blue states with high population density and a political establishment that wants to make them work (think Oregon or Massachusetts) — are definitely not failing.”
Here’s a longer clip:
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