On live television last week, Rep. Ron DeSantis insinuated that cancer patients could get the care they needed at their local emergency rooms. A bad gaffe normally, during the current healthcare debate it metastasized quickly. By the weekend, many constituents were rejecting him like a bad bone marrow transplant.

At town halls inside Florida’s sixth congressional district, diabetics, breast cancer survivors, and the father-in-law of a heart transplant recipient ask the Republican why he wants to repeal Obamacare and send them to the ER. Each time, DeSantis takes it on the chin.