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QUICK CLIP: DSCC Chairman Outlines Midterm Stakes

DSCC Chairman Chris Van Hollen joined CNN with Jake Tapper last night to outline the stakes in the midterms and highlight why Republican attempts to sabotage affordable health care, including their efforts to eliminate protections for pre-existing conditions coverage has put them at a disadvantage with voters.

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VAN HOLLEN: Welcome back from the debate last night in Florida, the gubernatorial debate, we have a big Senate race there. Bill Nelson, I’m confident Bill Nelson is going to beat Rick Scott. Even though as you say, Rick Scott is spending gobs more money, but Rick Scott has also been a bad governor and we’re seeing that reflected in what folks are telling us down in Florida. We’ve always said that Democrats in the Senate have a very difficult political map. We have 26 Democratic Senate seats we’re defending, eight Republican seats, but that being said, we see the energy on the Democratic side big turnouts and the reality is, even in states that Trump won, when you ask folks what they want they want senators who are going to stand up for their state, that they’re going to be independent. and by the way, they certainly do not like what they’re hearing from Republicans who are talking about taking away protections for people with pre-existing health conditions. Republicans voted to take that away. Other Republican Senate candidates are on lawsuits like the Texas lawsuit that would take those protections away from folks and that is a top of mind issue for voters around the country.

 

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