4/2/2019

BORDER/CRIME/DEMS/GOP/HEALTHCARE/IMMIGRATION/MILITARY/POLICE/PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS: “We have the border. We have, if you look at it, we have the immigration but we have a lot — we have the crime. We have the police. We have the military. We have so much. They have health care right now. We have to take that away from them. We take that away — we take that away we will not even come close.

So here’s the concept, we have to protect and cannot run away from a thing called preexisting conditions. We can’t do it. You’re going to get clobbered. A friend of mine is running in a certain state. I’m not going to embarrass him. He’s got a 20-point lead. He’s running for governor. 20-point lead, it’s over.

About a month later I say, ‘Hey,’ the election hadn’t take place — taken place, I said, ‘How is it going out there? How’s he doing?’ ‘Sir, he’s 20 points down.’ ‘Wait a minute. He was 20 points up. What are you talking about?’ ‘No, sir, right now he’s 20 points down. He’s getting killed.’ I said, ‘Why?’ ‘Because he wanted to terminate preexisting conditions.’ Well, that was a poll.

This is a guy, he ended up getting clobbered. He had an easy race. He was already buying the carpet for the mansion. Not our mansion, a different mansion. I guess that didn’t work out too well. And I’ll never forget, five governors sitting in front of me, I was making a speech, very conservative governors, and I said, because I hadn’t really taken a position and, but I — I think we have to go with the preexisting, and I’m making a speech, ‘And we will support, and the Republicans cherish preexisting conditions.’ And these five Southern guys down there, they’re looking me, ‘What the hell was that all about?

What?’ And I told him, I said, ‘We have to support it. We should support it. We’re doing the right thing. And if you don’t support it, you have no chance of winning. I mean, I just want to be blunt, you have no chance of winning.’ The Democrat plan will be devastating to the people with preexisting conditions.”

-Donald Trump as quoted by Factbase, “Speech: Donald Trump Addresses a National Republican Campaign Committee Fundraiser – April 2, 2019,” factba.se, April 2, 2019