{"id":108209,"date":"2017-07-26T01:51:26","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T05:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=108209"},"modified":"2017-07-26T03:15:18","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T07:15:18","slug":"trump-nation-closer-to-liberation-from-obamacare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/07\/26\/trump-nation-closer-to-liberation-from-obamacare\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump: Nation closer to liberation from ‘Obamacare’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FILE: Donald Trump speaking with supporters at a campaign rally at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix,
Arizona. (Photo<\/a> by Gage Skidmore<\/a>, CC BY-SA 2.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio\u2014 Celebrating a slim but symbolic health-care win in Washington, President Donald Trump told supporters in Ohio on Tuesday night that the nation was one step closer to liberation from the \u201cObamacare nightmare.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou think that’s easy? That’s not easy,\u201d he told a crowd of thousands just hours after the Senate took a small but hard-fought first step toward Republicans’ years-long promise to repeal and replace former President Barack Obama’s health care law.<\/p>\n

Clearly energized to be back in front of a friendly crowd of supporters, Trump said repeatedly that he believes in speaking directly to the American people and not through the \u201cfake news\u201d media. And he joked about accusations that he doesn’t act presidential.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s so easy to act presidential,\u201d he said. \u201cBut that’s not going to get it done.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump said that with the Senate’s vote to allow consideration of a health care bill, \u201cWe’re now one step closer to liberating our citizens from this Obamacare nightmare and delivering great health care for the American people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tuesday’s trip to Youngstown, a staunchly working-class, union-heavy enclave that has long helped anchor Democrats in Ohio, served as a welcome distraction from Washington for a president who loves to relive his once-unlikely Election Day win.<\/p>\n

In a room filled with supporters, Trump talked up his first six months in office, claiming that no other president had done \u201canywhere near\u201d what he’d done in his first six months.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot even close,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Far from questions about investigations into Russian meddling in the 2016 campaign and his repeated attempts to discredit his attorney general, Trump painted the picture of a president adored by his country, despite his dismal approval ratings.<\/p>\n

Trumpeting his administration’s tough approach to illegal\u00a0immigration\u00a0and criminal gangs, Trump described people \u201cscreaming from their windows, ‘Thank you, thank you,\u201d’ to border patrol agents and his Homeland Security secretary.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe’re liberating our towns and we’re liberating our cities. Can you believe we have to do that?\u201d he asked, adding that law enforcement agents were rooting out gang members _ and \u201cnot doing it in a politically correct fashion. We’re doing it rough.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOur guys are rougher than their guys,\u201d he bragged.<\/p>\n

Trump also said Tuesday that he’s been working with a pair of Republican senators to \u201ccreate a new\u00a0immigration\u00a0system for America.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want a merit-based system, one that protects our workers\u201d and one that \u201cprotects our economy,\u201d said Trump, endorsing legislation introduced by Sens. Tom Cotton and David Perdue that would put new limits on legal\u00a0immigration.<\/p>\n

Ahead of the rally, Trump stopped by a veterans’ event as part of the White House’s weeklong celebration of servicemen and women. Following brief remarks by several of his Cabinet members, Trump entered a small room of veterans, several of them over 80 years old, and praised them for their commitment and sacrifice for the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cA truly grateful nation salutes you,\u201d Trump told the group in Sutherland, Ohio.<\/p>\n

But he quickly shifted gears to recall his unexpected election win in Ohio, praising Youngstown and towns like it for helping him secure the electoral votes that put him over the top.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was incredible time we had. You saw the numbers,\u201d he said. \u201cDemocrats, they win in Youngstown \u2013 \u00a0but not this time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump has mainly sought to re-litigate his 2016 victory in friendly territory, escaping Washington to recharge with boisterous crowds that embrace his jabs at \u201cfake news\u201d media, Democrats and even those Republicans whom Trump once vowed to defeat as part of his effort to \u201cdrain the swamp.\u201d<\/p>\n

Democrat Hillary Clinton herself did not frequent this stretch of the industrial Midwest in her campaign against Trump, instead dispatching her husband, the former president, on little-noticed bus tours of the region. Trump ended up narrowing Clinton’s advantage to 3 points on his way to an 8-point victory statewide.<\/p>\n

The surrounding 13th Congressional District, which Trump lost by 6.5 percentage points, is among the Democratic-held seats that Republicans are targeting next year, and the local congressman, Rep. Tim Ryan, happens to be one of the Democrats’ most intense internal critics.<\/p>\n

Ryan won two-thirds of the vote to win an easy re-election in November despite Trump’s performance, a result that demonstrates the president’s appeal among white voters who have historically backed Democrats. Shortly after, he ran unsuccessfully against Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., for House minority leader, and he continues to criticize the party for leaning too heavily on leaders from coastal states and failing to communicate a coherent economic message to much of the rest of the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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