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babylonsister

(171,066 posts)
Fri Oct 26, 2018, 08:15 AM Oct 2018

Rachel Maddow May Have Just Ended Martha McSally's Senate Campaign With A Brilliant Fa

https://www.politicususa.com/2018/10/25/maddow-ended-gop-senate-campaign.html

Posted on Thu, Oct 25th, 2018 by Sean Colarossi
Rachel Maddow May Have Just Ended Martha McSally’s Senate Campaign With A Brilliant Fact Check


The Arizona Senate contest has been one of the closest races in the country this election cycle, but Rachel Maddow may have just dashed the GOP’s hopes of holding onto the seat.

In a brilliant fact check, Maddow exposed GOP candidate Martha McSally’s blatant lies about her position on protecting health care coverage for her constituents.

“Are you freaking kidding me?” Maddow said in response to the Republican’s pledge that she is the candidate who will protect the Affordable Care Act after once saying she wanted to “f—ing kill” it.




Transcript:

MADDOW: Congresswoman Martha McSally of Arizona told her colleagues, quote, let’s get this f-ing thing done. Says Martha McSally. According to other people in the room and multiple reports, she didn’t say f’ing. She said the whole thing. ‘Let’s get this {beep}, let’s get this f-ing thing done. And by this f’ing thing, she means let’s kill Obama care. Let’s f-ing kill it. That’s Martha McSally. And now she’s running for Senate in Arizona like this.

MCSALLY: We cannot go back to where we were before Obamacare where people were one diagnosis away from going bankrupt because they could not get access to health care.

MADDOW: What was the way she put it again? Let’s get this f-ing thing done, let’s f-ing kill Obamacare. Now running as the Senate candidate that Arizona should trust to protect Obamacare. It’s just like are you freaking kidding me?


Republicans tried to kill Obamacare. Now they’re running as if they created it.

Republicans in Congress voted dozens of times to repeal the Affordable Care Act, including protections for those with pre-existing conditions.

Yet, in this election cycle, Donald Trump and GOP candidates all across the country – including some of the same folks who have their names attached to lawsuits challenging protections for pre-existing conditions – are running as if they invented Obamacare.

As Maddow so appropriately said on Thursday night, “Are you freaking kidding me?”

This strategy might work inside of the right-wing media bubble or at one of Trump’s mob-style MAGA rallies, but anybody who has been paying attention will see right through it.
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Rachel Maddow May Have Just Ended Martha McSally's Senate Campaign With A Brilliant Fa (Original Post) babylonsister Oct 2018 OP
Republicans are lying as usual. Iliyah Oct 2018 #1
and don't ya love Rachel's laugh........ a kennedy Oct 2018 #2
Whether that stupid base of people love or hate Obama Care, they efhmc Oct 2018 #3
Unfortuately, there are a whole lot of StarzGuy Oct 2018 #4
This message was self-deleted by its author DesertRat Oct 2018 #5

Iliyah

(25,111 posts)
1. Republicans are lying as usual.
Fri Oct 26, 2018, 08:24 AM
Oct 2018

But alas, their base will believe anything from them because at least they are not those liberals.

efhmc

(14,726 posts)
3. Whether that stupid base of people love or hate Obama Care, they
Fri Oct 26, 2018, 08:44 AM
Oct 2018

are still too vastly stupid to switch from voting for Trumpsters.

StarzGuy

(254 posts)
4. Unfortuately, there are a whole lot of
Fri Oct 26, 2018, 10:59 AM
Oct 2018

Low information voters here in Arizonaee. It should be a no brainer to vote for Kyrsten Sinema our democratic representative. She represented what might be called a mixed district where she needed to be middle of the road in terms of her voting pattern in Congress.

I fear that there are just enough wing nuts to push McShitty over to a victory. Considering the number of them in Arizonaee it will not be a shock if that happens.

I already voted for Sinema as I am on the permanent early voting by mail list. Here in Flagstaff we are more democratic than the rest of the state.

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