Democrats Want to Party Like It’s 2018 and Push Health Care – By Sam Brodey (Daily Beast) / March 19, 2022
Democrats are facing a potential onslaught come November. But they’re hoping an old favorite message could blunt their losses.
Failing in the polls and struggling to craft a compelling message ahead of this November’s elections, Democrats are turning to a new strategy. Or, really, an old strategy: health care.
Placing health care front and center paid dividends for Democrats in 2018 and 2020, when they won both chambers of Congress and the White House after spending months—and millions—reminding voters that Republicans had just worked tirelessly to dismantle the Affordable Care Act.
But as the 2022 midterm season ramped up, Democrats had little fodder to revive that playbook—until Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) opened his mouth.
In a March 7 interview with Breitbart News, Johnson said that if Republicans took control of Congress in 2022, they could “actually make good on what we established as our priorities.”
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