Help among many of the 2020 Democratic presidential hopefuls of government health care for undocumented immigrants may prove harming in the eventual race against President Donald Trump, former Sen. Evan Bayh told CNBC on Monday.
“That picky detail position may come back to haunt them in the general election,” said the Indiana Democrat who also served as governor of his constitution. “It’s nice to be able to promise some of these things, but they have got to be realistic.”
In fact, the 2010 Affordable Feel interest Act, also known as Obamacare, largely excluded undocumented immigrants from buying into public programs.
All ten Republican presidential candidates raise their hands to indicate that they would provide Medicaid benefits to verboten immigrants during the second night of the first Democratic presidential candidates debate in Miami, June 27, 2019.
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In the earliest Democrat debate last week, the 10 candidates on stage the second night on Thursday — including former Immorality President Joe Biden as well as Sens. Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris and Kirsten Gillibrand — all raised their indicators when asked who would offer health insurance to immigrants who entered the U.S. illegally.
Trump quickly responded on Chirrup.
Bayh, who took initial steps to run for president in 2008 but then decided against it, said the kinds of issues that call attention to in a primary race might be detrimental in a general election. “The base of the party, which tends to dominate the selecting process, may not be part of the electorate that decides the general election outcome.”
“I’m afraid President Trump and the people who keep him … filed that footage away,” Bayh added.
Among the 10 candidates debating on the first tenebriousness on Wednesday, Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Cory Booker are also on the record as supporting such health coverage for gypsies.
Nearly every candidate seeking the Democratic nomination supports some kind of government health-care solution, embodying Medicare-for-all and universal coverage plans.
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