[9YearLurker]

No, you’re confusing two different mandates. Cooper asked him about the mandate that insurance companies offer insurance to people with pre-existing conditions.

This deceptive thread is trying to claim that Trump was referring to the mandate that people buy insurance—or get fined/taxed.

[OldSaltUSN]

Sorry, read it again. You're incorrect, and about a dozen people have proven it with transcript quotes. The context of the question WAS the universal mandate to buy insurance. That led to Cooper's inferred question about pre-existing conditions, i.e. if Obamacare is repealed, there will be no universal mandate to buy coverage, which leads to the question about "what happens to people with pre-existing conditions. Trump proves that he understood the context of the question to be exactly that, when he responds about people "dying in the streets", e.g. people with no insurance. His response would be a non sequitur logical fallacy otherwise.

Trump supports the mandate requiring all individuals to buy health insurance, and under the Obamacare status quo within a highly restricted, over priced market.

Trump might clarify this tomorrow, i.e. it may not be what he meant to say, but it's what his words said.

[kik5150]

COOPER: I got one question about it. If Obamacare’s Repealed and there’s no mandate for everybody to have insurance, what’s to - why would insurance company (sic) not have a pre-existing - insure somebody who has a pre-existing condition ...

TRUMP: Well I like the mandate. OK. So here’s where I’m a little bit different. I don’t want people dying on the streets and I say this all the time. And I say this - look, I did five speeches, maybe six speeches today. We had a lot of rallies. We had of thousands and thousands of people. We get big crowds.

Every time I talk about this I get standing ovations. The Republican people, they’re wonderful people. They don’t want people dying on the streets. Sometimes they’ll say Donald Trump wants single payer because there’s a group of people - as good as these plans are and by the way your insurance will go way down, you’ll have better plans, you’ll get your own doctor which Obama lied. Remember this ...