“We had no votes from the Democrats. They weren’t going to give us a single vote, so it’s a very difficult thing to do,” lamented President Donald Trump to reporters about 90 minutes after House Speaker Paul D. Ryan canceled the floor vote on the Republicans’ health care bill on March 24.

But if Trump wanted Democrats, why didn’t he approach those who’d opposed President Barack Obama’s signature health care law in 2010?

Trump and Ryan did not ask for support from the three remaining Democrats of the 34 who voted “no” on the 2010 law: Collin C. Peterson of Minnesota, Daniel Lipinski of Illinois, and Stephen F. Lynch of Massachusetts.

All indicated they would not have supported the GOP bill had it come to a vote. “I’d like to work with them, but they have not reached out at this point,” Peterson said just days before Ryan pulled the GOP bill.

Peterson is probably the most conservative member of the Democratic caucus. Last fall, Trump carried his rural western Minnesota district with 62 percent of the vote.