Bring on the health care debate
by digby
New polling on “The Party of Health Care” :
The poll shows that any health care battle will be fought on Democrats’ turf. Asked whom they trust when it comes to health care, 45 percent of voters pick Democrats in Congress, while 35 percent choose Republicans in Congress. A majority of voters, 54 percent, have “a lot” or “some” trust in congressional Democrats to protect the health care system or make improvements to it — significantly more than have those levels of trust in congressional Republicans (41 percent) or Trump (41 percent) on the issue.
A 59 percent majority of voters say they don’t have much trust or any trust at all in Trump on health care.
“As health care is pushed to the forefront of the 2020 agenda, our polling suggests President Trump may struggle to attract voters with his promise of a new plan,” said Tyler Sinclair, Morning Consult’s vice president. “While over eight in 10 Republicans (82 percent) have ‘a lot’ or ‘some’ trust in the president to overhaul the U.S. health care system, independents and Democrats trust the president ‘not much’ or ‘not at all’ on this issue (65 and 93 percent, respectively).”
Republicans have zero credibility on this issue. Donald Trump even less. Sure his cult followers will believe anything he says but they represent 40% of the country.
Mitch McConnell persuaded Trump to pull back from his plan to win the lawsuit that repeals Obamacare and then force the House Democrats to the table to pass his bill because people would terrified and dying all over the country so they’d vote for anything. Apparently that was too nihilistic even for McConnell and that’s saying something.
Trump is now saying that running on his “great plan” will give incentives to vote Republican and Trump in 2020. Sadly for them, they have no credibility.
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