I have. I was speaking with a former elected official here in Houston who lives in one of those “senior-living” condos, and she says many of her neighbors are switching from Trump to Biden over health care, of all things.
It doesn’t make much sense to me that someone would vote for a guy who promised to repeal ObamaCare in 2016 and then vote for Biden over health care, but there it is. She was correct, however, when she pointed out that Republicans, from Trump on down, have no coherent message on health care and seem to be abandoning the field to Democrats on an issue that is at or near the top for a huge number of voters. The bare contention that “we will protect people with pre-existing conditions” is nonsensical and doesn’t cut it.
She suggested that Republican candidates need to quickly get on one page when it comes to messaging, and do a national series of ads attacking Democrat health care ideas—particularly pointing out how socialist health care systems ration care to the elderly.
This makes little sense unless they think Trump wants to gut Medicare. Hopefully they watched the debate where Trump killed Beijing Biden on the health care issue.
Excellent comment. I’ve been saying for awhile now the first 2 years of Trump’s presidency when we held the House, the Senate, and the White House would have been a great time to keep the “repeal and replace Obamacare” promise. The repeal happened. The replacement with a cost-cutting free market alternative never did. The GOP missed an easy shot at persuading swing voters that they care about working people. I don’t think they ever had a plan. I think they just repealed Obamacare and hoped we would forget about the “replace” part of their campaign promises.
>>She suggested that Republican candidates need to quickly get on one page when it comes to messaging, and do a national series of ads attacking Democrat health care ideas—particularly pointing out how socialist health care systems ration care to the elderly.
Then she is am idiot if she is living in a retirement community, knowing Democrats will ration her healthcare, and voting for Biden anyway.