Heck?
Even Trump don’t want Medicaid ‘touched’…
Cuts to the program , which IS HUGE would actually effect Red States worse….
(Midterm House elections are lesss than 2 years away and the campaigns will begin in earnest in less than a year)
Democrats are preparing to launch an ad war against Republicans over President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.”
House Majority Forward, the nonprofit affiliated with House Democratic leadership and House Majority PAC, will start running digital ads next week attacking House Republicans voting to cut Medicaid spending, according to a spokesperson for the group. The ads will appear in 25 battleground districts in California, Iowa, Michigan, Missouri, New York, North Carolina, Virginia and Wisconsin.
Protect Our Care, another Democrat-aligned group, has already spent $10 million on Medicaid-related TV ads in swing seats, and they’re planning to expand on that ad buy next week, according to a person directly familiar with the decision who was granted anonymity to speak freely. Unrig Our Economy, another Democratic group, is already airing a radio ad attacking Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-Iowa) for her vote to move the bill out of committee, and they’re expected to run more ads like it against Rep. Tom Kean Jr. (R-N.J.) and Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.)….
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Democrats see Republicans as vulnerable on the issue with their own base. In 2024, Trump built his winning coalition, in part, on growing support among working class voters across racial groups — a reality emphasized by Steve Bannon, Trump’s former adviser, who warned Republicans in February to be careful around Medicaid cuts because there are “a lot of MAGAs on Medicaid.” A Morning Consult analysis found that Trump won more Medicaid beneficiaries, 49 percent, than Kamala Harris, who won 47 percent of them. Trump told Republican House members this week to not “fuck around with Medicaid.”
“They’re trying to appeal to working class voters, and they’ve been successful at it, but the real world consequences are going to start hitting those voters and I think it’ll hurt Republicans badly,” said Mike Lux, a Democratic consultant who focuses on working class voters. “For the Republican Party, in the long run, it’s going to be very hard to appeal to working class voters if their Medicaid gets cut.”…
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Running on health care is a familiar playbook for Democrats, who won the House back in 2018 by primarily attacking Republicans for their efforts to dismantle the Affordable Care Act….
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