- . . .and we would add nearly the Senate
It’s just mind-boggling how many people are selling out everything they’ve ever believed because they hate Donald Trump. Jeff Flake did it. John McCain did it. You want to know why we lost the House? We lost the House because of McCain! McCain thumbs down Obamacare. If we had followed through, if we had actually succeeded in repealing and replacing Obamacare in the House of Representatives, McCain’s thumb down vote in the Senate nixed the whole thing. The House did their job.\
But because the Senate failed, the House gets shared blame in it. Now, it was tough. I mean, the whole House wasn’t in favor of it. Many of the traditional House leadership wanted nothing to do with repealing and replacing Obamacare. But Trump succeeded in getting enough votes that it passed there. McCain nixed it. Do you realize that was a big — Republican voters vote on results and vote on substance in many cases. And repealing and replacing Obamacare and immigration are two gigantic failures of the House of Representatives.
You know, there’s a lot of voters out there who will vote against a Republican even if it means a Democrat in charge if the Republican betrays them yet again, they’ve had it. It happened.
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Its true, these are not refined decisions by political sophisticates (sorry irregular voters, I am talking about you). People who may have been induced to consider voting Republican say ~~ look at those Republicans “they” are in charge and they have not accomplished anything to show results on my health care costs, I am still paying high medical insurance”. So no performance loyalty is achieved from “health-care” voters. On the job front yes they are pleased but how much do they associate “Republicans” with the improvement vs Trump, and he really was not up this election, however much some belatedly tried to make it so. What passes for sophistication with some of these voters is the old saw “vote for the man not the party,” and you have Democrat office seekers obscuring their true selves and promising everything.
