Jake Tapper and CNN pretended during the Republican presidential debate that Obamacare doesn’t exist. But Republican voters won’t follow suit. Instead, they are likely to cast their votes largely based on who looks most committed to repealing President Obama’s tenuously perched signature legislation.
The only two candidates at the debate who mentioned Obamacare as anything more than an afterthought were Scott Walker and Ted Cruz. Walker said that “you start on day one with repealing Obamacare. I’m the only one on this stage that’s actually got a plan, introduced an actual plan to repeal Obamacare on day one.” In his last words of the debate, Cruz said, “You want to know what I’ll do as president? It is real simple. We’ll kill the terrorists, we’ll repeal Obamacare, and we will defend the Constitution, every single word of it.”
