Senators, with their six-year terms in office, are used to shaking things off—taking a popular vote three or four or five years before their next election and assuming, usually correctly, that voters will have forgotten. A progressive group called Save My Care is reminding some Republican senators who won’t face re-election until 2020 that health care could be different. A bill that’s unpopular now isn’t likely to be a hell of a lot more popular once hundreds of thousands of people in a state have lost their health coverage. And Trumpcare sure isn’t popular now in key 2020 states:
In Iowa, where Trump won by a wide margin in 2016, only 27 percent of voters approve of the bill, and 54 percent disapprove, according to PPP's automated poll in that state. In Colorado, where Clinton won, only 26 percent approve and 59 percent disapprove. And in North Carolina, where Trump won by small margin, 33 percent of voters approve and 53 percent disapprove.
All three states feature senators facing reelection in three years: Sen. Cory Gardner of Colorado, who is also the National Republican Senatorial Committee chairman; Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina; and Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa. Of the three, Ernst is in the strongest position in the Save My Care polling, leading a generic Democratic opponent 48 percent to 41 percent. Tillis is trailing a generic Democrat, 48 percent to 44 percent, and Gardner is trailing 53 percent to 39 percent.
Those three states were critical to Republicans taking the Senate in 2014, and they could be critical to Democrats taking it back in 2020. Taking a vote that will actively hurt people in their states and where it won’t be hard for voters to connect the dots between a law that their senator supported and damage done to themselves is dangerous for Ernst, Tillis, and Gardner. But they’re probably going to do it anyway.
We delayed Trumpcare—for now. But the GOP leadership is hell-bent on denying health insurance, and is working hard to coerce Republican senators. We need three Republicans to stand firm. Call your senator at (202) 224-3121 and tell them “NO DEAL.” Then, tell us how it went.
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