This new poll helps explain why the Trump team won’t stop lying

[CaliCat 3,957]

The so-called president can't fool everyone all the time. There are many Americans who are seeing him for who he is - a liar, and incapable of running the country. In other words, what everyone else already knew.

 

This new poll helps explain why the Trump team won’t stop lying

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2017/07/17/this-new-poll-helps-explain-why-the-trump-team-wont-stop-lying/?utm_term=.7c4407476bfd

 

 

THE MORNING PLUM:

In recent days, the Trump administration’s lies about the GOP health-care bill have reached impressive new heights of cruelty and disingenuousness. The falsehoods have focused mainly on disguising what the bill would do to Medicaid — in one way or another, they are designed to cover up the fact that Trump is eager to sign a bill that would absolutely decimate health-care spending on poor people, in violation of both the letter and spirit of his campaign promises.

There’s a good explanation for all this lying buried in the new Post-ABC News poll: Large majorities say that the federal government should prioritize expanding health coverage to low-income people over cutting taxes. And this includes pretty much every core Trump voter group, too.

The Post poll asked: “On health care, which of these do you think is more important for the federal government to do: provide health care coverage for low-income Americans, or cut taxes?”

Americans overall picked providing health coverage to low-income Americans by 63 percent to 27 percent. And according to the crosstabs, pretty much every Trump-friendly demographic agrees:

• Whites favor providing coverage for low-income Americans over cutting taxes by 59-31.
• Americans aged 50 to 64 agree by 61-25.
• Americans older than 65 agree by 60-25.
• Non-college whites agree by 58-33.
• Even non-college white men, perhaps the most Trump-friendly voters out there, agree by 53-38. Non-college white women agree by 62-28.

Republicans, to be sure, lean toward cutting taxes by 48-39, but that’s pretty tepid — taken all together, this suggests there are probably a lot of “soft” or reluctant Trump supporters who favor providing coverage to low-income Americans over cutting taxes. (Other polls have also found wide opposition to Medicaid cuts.) Separately, as many have already detailed, Trumpcare’s cuts to Medicaid and subsidies would directly hit a lot of the older and working-class whites who make up the Trump and GOP base.

This may help explain why the Post-ABC News poll also finds that Americans favor the Affordable Care Act over the GOP replacement by 50-24. Even Trump-friendly non-college whites are divided on this by 33-33, per the crosstabs. But the question pitting expanded coverage for poor people against cutting taxes strips down the core ideological battle over the GOP bill to its essence — at bottom, it is mainly about gutting Medicaid and subsidies to lower-income people to facilitate tax cuts. Americans broadly oppose this.

And it is precisely the truth that all the latest lying and dissembling from the Trump team are designed to obfuscate.

Over the weekend, Vice President Pence got hammered on social media for claiming in a speech that because of the Medicaid expansion in Ohio, “nearly 60,000 disabled citizens are stuck on waiting lists,” leaving them without care “for months or even years.” But as The Post pointed out, this has nothing to do with the Medicaid expansion, and the office of the state’s GOP governor, John Kasich, flatly declared that this is “the opposite of what happened.” In a related claim, Pence has been saying that the Senate GOP bill “strengthens and secures Medicaid for the neediest in our society,” which it would do, Pence asserts, by returning Medicaid to its “original purpose,” rather than covering so many “able-bodied adults.”

[JimandChristy 1,689]

So much lying! Never seen an Administration lie so much and we're only six months in!

[Eric-Pris 1,607]

Still can't accept it and move on?  LOL

[CaliCat 3,957]

Nope. Can't accept Trump's lies. Won't silence either. Get over it.

[JimandChristy 1,689]

10 minutes ago, Eric-Pris said:

Still can't accept it and move on?  LOL