EXCLUSIVE — President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign is releasing a video on Thursday featuring several years’ worth of promises by former President Donald Trump to repeal Obamacare and replace it with his own alternative healthcare plan.
In a video the president’s 2024 campaign will be sharing to its Biden-Harris headquarters page on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, a list of claims made by Trump will scroll up the screen for two minutes. The promises from the former president include his pledge that “we will come up with healthcare plans that will be phenomenal” in 2015 during a campaign rally in New Hampshire and his vow to “cancel that Obamacare if we can win the case and give you great healthcare” while in office in October 2020.
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The new “Trump List” of times he committed to repealing Obamacare and assured he would pass a better plan marks the significant emergence of Obamacare as a focal point for the Biden campaign.
The Biden reelection effort sees Trump’s rehashing of the matter as a gift to its campaign, which it plans to take full advantage of. Biden’s team will be hammering the topic of healthcare and the threat of Obamacare’s removal every day for the foreseeable future, and it has begun doing so on social media and in campaign communications.
Obamacare proved to be popular among the public, with 59% of adults viewing it favorably in 2023, years after its passage. Further, the policy is particularly liked among the groups that are expected to decide the 2024 election, especially if it becomes a rematch between Biden and Trump. Sixty-two percent of independents view it favorably, according to data from KFF. In addition, 61% of the younger voting demographic, aged 18-29, have favorable opinions of Obamacare.
The video coincides with a new battleground state ad released Thursday by the campaign that contrasts Biden and Trump’s records and policy preferences on healthcare, particularly prescription drug costs. “Thanks to President Biden and Vice President Harris, families can afford medication now. The Biden administration lowered the cost of prescription drugs and passed laws to make healthcare more affordable,” a pediatric nurse named Jody from Nevada tells viewers.
“The idea that we could go back to the policies that help the rich get richer and left so many people behind — I don’t want to go back. Can’t go back,” she says, appearing to become emotional.
The ad began running in markets in Phoenix, Arizona; Atlanta, Georgia; Detroit, Michigan; Las Vegas, Nevada; Raleigh, North Carolina; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, according to the campaign, as part of a $25 million ad buy.
“President Biden has made it a priority to lower costs and expand access to healthcare — and hardworking Americans are seeing and feeling the results. It’s a stark contrast to Donald Trump’s America, where millions of Americans would lose their healthcare and see costs become even higher if his push to repeal the Affordable Care Act is successful,” campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez said in a statement.
She added: “This ad will remind voters of the clear choice they’ll face in 2024: Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans who are hellbent on siding with Big Pharma and insurance companies that make healthcare costs for hardworking Americans more expensive, or President Biden, who is laser-focused on making healthcare more affordable for your family and lowering the cost of prescription drugs.”
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Politico reported that Trump’s campaign is crafting its own healthcare policy proposal, but it did not indicate when the plan is going to be released. The campaign also didn’t say if the plan was a “repeal and replace” style effort, which failed in the 2010s.
Trump’s campaign did not provide comment to the Washington Examiner.
