Watch as Protestors Outside the Senate Joyfully Learn ObamaCare Repeal Would Fail, Then Celebrate With Warren, Sanders, Schumer
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‘Kill the Bill! Kill the Bill! Kill the Bill!’
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McCain Voted No! McCain Voted No!
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Elizabeth Warren: ‘Let’s Have Some Fun! Does Anyone Want to Take a Selfie?’
About 150 people protesting Republican efforts to repeal Obamacare stood outside the Senate into the wee hours of Friday morning, chanting, “Kill the bill!” According to Vox congressional reporter Jeff Stein, they were among the first to learn that Senator John McCain would be casting the decisive “no” vote on Mitch McConnell’s “skinny repeal” of ObamaCare bill. That moment came at about 1:13 AM, when New York Times reporter Jonathan Martin posted this tweet, about 20 minutes before the bill died:
NEWS: Two Ariz Republicans w direct knowledge tell me they now anticipate McCain WILL vote “no” on skinny.
— Jonathan Martin (@jmartNYT) July 28, 2017
Watch this amazing moment as they learned all their efforts counted:
Cheers from the crowd as @jmartNYT tweet scoop on McCain read aloud pic.twitter.com/LIP0ddCjaK
— Jeff Stein (@JStein_Vox) July 28, 2017
“Kill the bill!” chants became even louder. Stein, and others, reported the chants could be heard inside the Capitol:
New wave of energy here after @benwikler reads reporter’s tweet that shouts can be heard from within Capitol pic.twitter.com/TNZow3fata
— Jeff Stein (@JStein_Vox) July 28, 2017
Minutes after learning McCain was expected to vote no, here’s the moment the protestors learned he actually did. “McCain voted no! McCain voted no!” the protestors chanted, according to Stein:
“McCain voted no! McCain voted no!” pic.twitter.com/xHEjQnwbHQ
— Jeff Stein (@JStein_Vox) July 28, 2017
Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren came out to celebrate with the protestors:
A hero’s welcome here for Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who takes podium and declares, “The nightmare is over!” pic.twitter.com/MtDYd4fpaK
— Jeff Stein (@JStein_Vox) July 28, 2017
“Because you stood up,” Warren said, congratulating protestors for all their efforts. “Because you tweeted, because you sent emails, because you posted, because you talked to people in the grocery store,” ObamaCare “stayed alive!”
Warren 2020: to achieve greatness, never stop posting pic.twitter.com/tPIsQgESlJ
— Jeff Stein (@JStein_Vox) July 28, 2017
And then she took selfies with them to celebrate:Â
Warren: “Let’s have some fun! Does anyone want to take a selfie?” Jumps into crowd and does so with smile pic.twitter.com/uOQO2C4PSw
— Jeff Stein (@JStein_Vox) July 28, 2017
Bernie Sanders also addressed the crowd:
.@BernieSanders, sounding somber, thanks crowd and says goal must be universal care “for every man woman and child” in America pic.twitter.com/9x15vtxBge
— Jeff Stein (@JStein_Vox) July 28, 2017
As did Chuck Schumer:
Big cheers as Schumer descends the Capitol steps to join the rally. “We are a great team: the inside and the outside” pic.twitter.com/X9vd0wqVMf
— Jeff Stein (@JStein_Vox) July 28, 2017
Stein posted the list of organizations and speakers working to ensure ObamaCare repeal died, that organized the protest. It is huge, and we owe them all, and many more, including every person who took time to contact their Senators, our deepest gratitude:
Maybe ~150ppl still out here.
Organizers began planning rally around 5pm, list of speakers has had to expand pic.twitter.com/2DdXO8HPVW
— Jeff Stein (@JStein_Vox) July 28, 2017
NCRM thanks Jeff Stein for his excellent reporting and for posting these videos.Â
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