Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance on Tuesday night claimed — in contradiction of history — that his running mate, former President Donald Trump, “salvaged Obamacare,” the health insurance program that Trump tried to kill.
"And I think you can make a really good argument that it salvaged Obamacare, which was doing disastrously until Donald Trump came along.
I think this is an important point about President Trump.
In a dramatic Senate vote in 2017, Democrats and a handful of Republicans rejected his plan to repeal Obamacare.
A critic of Obamacare, McCain nonetheless concluded that the “skinny repeal” measure would leave Americans worse off than if Obamacare remained in place.
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