Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) attempted to blame Democrats for the failure of the law known as Trumpcare that would repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.

During a speech on the Senate floor Tuesday, McConnell said that it was sad that Democrats were celebrating the failure of the Republican Party’s bill. Neither McConnell nor President Donald Trump ever reached out to Democrats on the bill and Democrats refused to deal on a bill that would “repeal and replace Obamacare.” Instead, they have said that they prefer to “fix Obamacare.”

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“These are not just numbers on a page these are real people,” McConnell said.

Many of those “real people” protested the GOP’s bill. Sen. Jerry Moran (R-KS) experienced packed town hall meetings in sparsely populated west Kansas, in which rural hospitals and residents begged him to vote against the bill. Moran announced his opposition to the bill along with Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) Monday evening.

Recent polling reveals the majority of Americans want to keep Obamacare.

“I regret that the effort to immediately repeal and replace Obamacare will not be successful,” he continued. “That doesn’t mean we should give up. We will now try a different way to bring the American people relief from Obamacare.”

While McConnell said that he would try a new approach, that approach did not appear to be a bipartisan one. Democrats have urged a more bipartisan approach and supported McConnell coming together with them.

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“The Senate will pick up and vote on repeal Obamacare combined with a stable two-year transition period as toward patient centered health care,” he said as the “new approach.” The move is part of the 2015 bill the Senate developed which would double premiums and kick 32 million off of healthcare, according to the CBO score.

CBO found 75% of Americans would have NO insurers to choose from if the 2015 repeal bill became law without replacehttps://t.co/nR4otJ1juU pic.twitter.com/oagnfpdSxB — Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) June 30, 2017

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“A majority of the senate voted to pass the same repeal legislation back in 2015. President Obama vetoed it then. President Trump will sign it now,” he said.

House Speaker Paul Ryan then came out to speak to the press saying that he has done his job and passed his version of the repeal and replacement.

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Trump was reportedly “blindsided” by the inability to pass the GOP bill despite a Republican majority in the House and Senate.

The internet trolled McConnell with tweets about his failure like the ones below:

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McConnell is pathetic. GOP just announced it is too

incompetent to agree on changes to ACA. A full repeal

would be disaster. — gia scarlett (@giatny) July 18, 2017

This is all being done by their own party! Their own party doesn't want the McConnell bill. You have NOBODY to blame for this one — Stephanie Walker (@stephy001) July 18, 2017

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Sen McConnell says that now, on the umpteenth restart by @gop, ACA replacement will be "a patient-centered health care system." #bullshit — Bill (@noemptyspacepdx) July 18, 2017

"Alright guys, we already lost 4 GOP senators… think we can lose even more?"

McConnell: "there is one way…" https://t.co/wj2knV5peb — Jeremy Ball (@jeremywball) July 18, 2017

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Watch the video of McConnell below:



Mitch McConnell blames Democrats for Republican… by sarahburris