Saturday on AM Joy, host Joy Reid had a discussion on the failure of the GOP and Trump administration to pass their repeal and replacement for Obamacare, opening the segment by expertly trolling Trump with this:
“So, America, are you tired of winning yet? Winning, winning, winning. We can think of one person who isn’t: Donald Trump, the famous deal maker had to pull his health care bill off the house floor. Why? Because too many moderate and conservative Republicans revolted against their Republican president.”
One of Reid’s guests was GOP strategist Evan Siegfried, to whom she said:
“I feel bad for you, as a Republican strategist, you’re probably having to take a lot of phone calls about what happened to all the winning.”
Siegfried responded:
“Aside from being sick and tired of all this failing, I really am just stunned at the ineptitude of what happened the past 18 days. This should have been a layup bill. You get a bill together that all sides — We had seven years and we failed. It’s the truth.”
Reid then asked:
“Why do you think there was no bill after seven years of saying we’re going to repeal and replace Obamacare?”
To that, the GOP strategist replied:
“Because the second you start putting in the details, you take away the campaign talking point, which is we’re going to repeal and replace, and it’s amorphous and the voters then project what they believe that to be onto it. The second you contradict that, they might not support you.”
Former Vermont Governor and DNC Chair Howard Dean agreed with Siegfried, commenting:
“There’s nothing better for a politician than having really angry constituents understanding finally they’re going to get screwed.
“The people who were going to get screwed if the House Republicans got their way were Trump supporters. They were the people in places like West Virginia and Arkansas and and many of them were on Medicaid medicaid and they were going to get screwed on this bill.”
All that “winning” must feel kind of hollow to Trump right about now.
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