In about-face, Republicans make fixing Obamacare central to re-election push

Republicans wanted to gut Obamacare. Now, a wave of candidates advertise support for the ‘pre-existing conditions’ provision

In a House race in rural upstate New York, a congressional district containing some counties where Trump won by more than 22%, the Republican incumbent Elise Stefanik is campaigning on what would have been unthinkable five years ago: fixing Obamacare.

Stefanik is one of a wave of Republicans who, in the final weeks of the midterms election campaign, have advertised support for Obamacare’s most popular provisions. Republicans worked for the better part of a decade to repeal the law. Now, one Obamacare policy in particular has shockingly emerged as central to the right’s re-election push: protections for “pre-existing conditions”.

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