Well said! Not a thing in your analysis I don’t agree with. Truly one of the strangest election years in our history.
Yep.... very strange times, indeed.
Chris Wallace grilled Trump in their interview that its been 3.5 years and Trump hasn't pitched a healthcare plan. Trump said he would be pushing a full, complete, etc health care plan in two weeks.
It hasn't happened yet, but they are already prepping to grill him if he doesn't announce one.
In 2016 he said "we will be able to immediately replace Obamacare"... He said we were going to have "great healthcare at a fraction of the price"... "You're going to be very proud of what we put forth on healthcare", he said that in 2017....
This is one of those tricky positions for Republicans, because they essentially don't have a plan on purpose. They don't want the government involved in healthcare, so the plan is basically to not have a plan. But thats a very hard thing to pitch. I think most people would probably be relatively happy with it, but its hard to not have a plan at all when you are competing with another group who is pitching a plan, even if fundamentally you don't want the government involved. Lindsey Graham seemed to hint that they don't have a big legislative overhaul to pitch, but instead will keep tearing down the ACA and do Executive Orders for other items like RX drugs, etc.
However, that isn't what they are promising.
In June of 2019, Trump said on ABC News that a "phenomenal" new healthcare plan was coming within 2 months. It never happened... Two months after that, Kellyanne Conway told reporters that they are preparing a major speech and plan to totally redesign the nations healthcare system within weeks... It never happened.
In April of 2019, Trump said there would be an announcement on what the healthcare plan is AFTER THE ELECTION in November. Without even saying what it was. Just that was great, way better than Obamacare, and you had to wait till after Republicans and he won to find out what it was.
Steve Hilton is right.... he can't go down this path. He needs to state what the plan is. If its to have no plan, just say that. If they actually have a plan, just release it.
But they have been promising to release a plan for years. This time is more high profile because the promise came out of nowhere during the Chris Wallace interview. Its just now been two weeks, so we will see if they come out with anything soon, or if it was just like these other claims over the years.