After years of campaigning against Obamacare, Republicans trying to retain control of the Senate appear to be conceding that attacking the ACA is no longer politically advantageous.
In May, Victoria Spartz, a Republican candidate for Congress in Indiana, ran an ad showing her walking down a hallway flanked by two men in white coats, proudly touting that she"fought Obamacare."
Spartz is running in a competitive race: Even though Trump won the district in the Indianapolis suburbs by 12 percentage points in 2016, the seat is considered a toss-up, according to theAsked about House Republicans’ message on health care this year, National Republican Congressional Committee spokesman Michael McAdams did not say anything about the ACA.
Erika Franklin Fowler, co-director of the ad-tracking project, said Obamacare has increasingly become popular among Americans. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has made repeated attempts to repeal the law. Under his leadership, Senate Republicans spent the summer of 2017 trying to pass a plan to dismantle the ACA, but after multiple votes on different proposals, their efforts collapsed.in June to overturn Obamacare, and the court is expected to hear oral arguments in the case this fall.in March found 42 percent of voters said the law is a good idea.
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