President Trump’s health care lies are facing renewed scrutiny after blatantly false tweets about his administration’s record of attacking coverage protections for people with pre-existing health conditions and other benefits. Republican Senate incumbents on the ballot in 2020 have even longer records of trying to gut those same protections.
GOP senators running for re-election in 2020 — like Cory Gardner, Susan Collins, Martha McSally, Thom Tillis, Joni Ernst, David Perdue, John Cornyn, Lindsey Graham, and Mitch McConnell — have all voted to repeal the health care law and gut those protections and other benefits, including for maternity care, Medicaid expansion, and allowing children to remain on their parents’ insurance until age 26. Every Republican in the Senate in 2017 voted for the tax law that enabled the GOP’s lawsuit that would overturn the entire law and end its pre-existing conditions protections.
“This same reality check could apply to every Republican Senate incumbent this cycle struggling to defend their toxic health care record of voting to gut protections for their constituents who have a pre-existing condition,” said DSCC spokesperson Stewart Boss. “Just like the president was called out for lying, they will be held accountable for false statements and misleading ads that cover up the truth about what they’ve done on this issue in Washington.”
Trump’s absurd claims on pre-existing conditions amount to “brazen lying” — and Senate Republicans share his record:
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