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applegrove

(118,642 posts)
Tue May 2, 2017, 05:50 PM May 2017

Trumpcare Could Cost GOP Working-Class Voters

https://politicalwire.com/2017/05/02/trumpcare-cost-gop-working-class-voters/

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Harry Enten: “President Trump stormed into the White House thanks, in part, to working-class voters. Well, that was the conventional wisdom, in any case (there’s some debate over how big a factor economic anxiety actually was). But whatever working-class support Trump has, the Republican push to overhaul U.S. health care is putting it in peril.”

“The American Health Care Act, which may come up for a vote in the House this week (or not), appears to divide the Republican base along income lines. More specifically, Trump’s backing of the AHCA — and the renewed GOP effort to pass the bill — could eat away at the president’s support among lower-income Americans who otherwise like the job Trump is doing.”


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Trumpcare Could Cost GOP Working-Class Voters (Original Post) applegrove May 2017 OP
believe it when i see it lame54 May 2017 #1
I think "eat away at the President's support" means... Purrfessor May 2017 #2
Could? Wounded Bear May 2017 #3

Purrfessor

(1,188 posts)
2. I think "eat away at the President's support" means...
Tue May 2, 2017, 06:09 PM
May 2017

many of them will die off when they lose access to healthcare. They will still support Trump right to the end. But fewer of them means less support.

Wounded Bear

(58,653 posts)
3. Could?
Tue May 2, 2017, 06:24 PM
May 2017

Methinks 'would' would be a better term. Dems are defending their healthcare and they don't even know it.

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