One of the GOP’s central lines of attack this year has been to charge that Democrats, if they win back Congress, would bankrupt and destroy Medicare. Donald Trump himself summed up the strategy at an Indiana campaign when he declared Democrats would "raid Medicare to pay for socialism," going so far as to say he doubted Hoosiers wanted their state to end up like “the next Venezuela.” Democratic candidates are wisely fighting back, though, and not allowing Team Red to caricature them.
Democrat Katie Porter, who is challenging GOP Rep. Mimi Walters in California’s 45th Congressional District, is out with two new ads showcasing two different approaches. In one spot, Porter uses her own health scare to argue that everyone deserves quality care, while in the other, she takes her Republican foe to task for siding with Trump to weaken health care.
In her first commercial, Porter tells an audience that she "didn't expect to wind up in the emergency room while running for Congress," explaining that when her appendix burst last month, "quality healthcare literally saved my life." She then declares that every family in Orange County deserves access to health care. Porter's other ad hits GOP Rep. Mimi Walters for voting to "gut protections for pre-existing conditions and allow insurance companies to gouge seniors." The narrator also adds that Walters and Trump want to defund Planned Parenthood, while Porter will "take on Trump and the insurance companies to protect healthcare."
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