The GOP had it lined up and McConnell was told he had the votes for a healthcare bill that already passed the House and President Trump already said he would sign. NEVER FORGET what John McCain did to sabotage this. He could have warned he would not vote Yes, but that would have given Trump and McConnell and the GOP a chance to find another yes somewhere before allowing a vote in the Senate. No, McCain waited until he was the last vote and he voted NO and killed it. He did this strictly out of venomous vindictiveness directed at Trump.
People should never forget that McCain did this.
Sorry but you are airbrushing history there. McCain was not the only no vote. Collins and Murkowski voted no, too. And McCain could only be the deciding vote because the GOP had defacto campaigned for a progressive Democrat to replace Sessions. The Democrat won that Senate race and Obamacare repeal failed. McCain really is a bit player here. Don’t let the GOPe fob off their failure to repeal Obamacare on him.
See my last post on this. If the GOP had held onto the Alabama seat then there would have been another Republican in the Senate to crawl out of the mud and vote the bill down. My money would have been on Jeff Flake of Arizona (who didn’t run for re-election in 2018) or Shelley Caputo of West Virginia (who represents a state that has been the welfare basket-case of America for decades).