On a recent campaign stop in Cobb County, Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence made a promise that used to be a big applause line at Republican rallies since the passage of the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare.
“If you want a president who will cut taxes, grow our economy, squeeze every nickel out of that bloated federal bureaucracy and repeal Obamacare lock stock and barrel,” Pence said to growing applause, “then I say to you here in Georgia, we have but one choice.”
The promise to repeal the ACA came more than half hour into Pence’s speech and was the only mention of the president’s signature health care law, while just years ago, the Republican Party built entire campaigns on repealing it.
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