President Trump appears unable to make a substantive case for the AHCA
When he tries to sell it, he either talks politics or says Obamacare is bad.
Updated by Andrew Prokopandrew@vox.com Mar 22, 2017, 10:40am EDT
The fate of the Republican health bill in the House could rest on President Donald Trumps salesmanship. He pitched himself as the ultimate dealmaker during the campaign, and Speaker Paul Ryans office has lately been hyping him up as tLink to tweet
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Yet theres one glaring oddity in the pitch Trumps been making: It doesnt include anything even remotely resembling an affirmative case for the actual bill House Republicans have to vote on.
When Trump talks health care in public statements and in accounts of his private meetings, he keeps making the following four pretty simple points:
1. Obamacare is a disaster thats falling apart.
2. If Republicans dont pass the bill, theyll do badly in the next election.
3. Republicans have to pass the bill so they can move on to tax cuts.
4. He President Trump and the Republican Party need this win.
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ginnyinWI
(17,276 posts)The only things that are true are #3 and #4. And we'll be better if those things happen.
C_U_L8R
(45,003 posts)is a bad salesman
Nitram
(22,822 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)tarnished any more than it is. He reads his daily polls and it is so evident what the conversation is going to be the next morning.
Appears his billionaire friends are pushing back due to his destruction of their GOP brand. The Pitchfork and Torches theory is scaring the mega rich.