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Tue Jul 21, 2020, 08:04 PM Jul 2020

Voters will likely remember which party they believe handled health, science best

It was January, 2017. And Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., phoned Vice President Mike Pence to talk about health care.

He spoke about how thousands of his constituents received health care coverage “for the first time” as a result of ObamaCare.

And Manchin had a stern message for the Vice President. He wouldn’t vote to repeal ObamaCare if a replacement measure wasn’t set to go and was on cruise control to become law.

“They might not know how they got it,” said Manchin when describing West Virginians receiving health coverage for the first time. “But they will know how they lost it.”

Democrats aren’t foolish. Health care repeatedly registers as a top issue for Democratic voters. Health care scored well for Democrats in the 2018 midterms. Protecting health care coverage was one of the reasons Democrats flipped the House – after the Republicans jumbled and ultimately failed attempts to repeal and replace Obamacare in 2017.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/voters-will-likely-remember-which-party-they-believe-handled-health-science-best/ar-BB171ADe?li=BBnbfcQ&ocid=DELLDHP

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