Evil like you wouldn’t believe
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Republicans have achieved some kind of policy singularity where their positions are so cartoonishly evil Republican voters won’t believe they hold them:
Joe Biden and Democratic candidates for Congress are campaigning heavily on the issue, arguing that another term of a Trump presidency would mean a rollback of insurance protections that are extremely popular. Mr. Biden pressed the issue at Tuesday night’s presidential debate, saying “there’s 100 million people that have pre-existing conditions” who could see their access to insurance “taken away.”
That case seems to sway Democratic and independent voters, but not Republicans: Recent polls show the party’s voters believe the president will do the best job of protecting those with pre-existing conditions. They believe the repeated promises he makes, at campaign rallies, in Twitter messages and with executive orders — despite his support of lawsuits and legislation that would do the opposite.
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They often expressed disbelief that any politician would try to touch the popular provision.
“There is not a single guy or woman who would run for president that would make it so that pre-existing conditions wouldn’t be covered,” said Phil Bowman, a 59-year-old retiree in Linville, N.C. “Nobody would vote for him.”
Mr. Bowman cast his ballot for President Trump in 2016, and supports him in this election as well.
President Trump has supported unsuccessful legislation to replace the Affordable Care Act with policies that would put sicker patients at a disadvantage in the insurance market. And his Justice Department is currently asking the Supreme Court to overturn the law, with no replacement.
As always, this is also the strategy they’re using to defend their Supreme Court nominee, arguing that the policy preferences of vitrually all elite Republicans are so cartoonishly evil it would be unpossible that Amy Covid Barrett could support them, the fact that she has done so in print notwithstanding:
McConnell mocks claims that Barrett could vote to take away health care.
"This mother of 7 including multiple children who were born or adopted facing pre-existing condition medical challenges is just itching to block families like hers from accessing medical care. What a joke."— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) September 29, 2020
Meanwhile, Pay Check Don continues to transform the Republican Party with his Bold Economic Populism:
OUTFLANKED!