Non-Partisan Cook Political Report Moves 20 House Races To Dems After Obamacare Repeal Vote
Republicans may have just handed the House to Democrats with their Obamacare repeal vote.
The human consequences of the Republican health bill that passed the House Thursday are well documented. But the political consequences for Republicans who voted to take health care away from 24 million people are just emerging.
On Friday, The Cook Political Report changed its ratings for 20 House seats towards the Democrats saying the odds of winning those districts has increased after the Republicans passed the Obamacare repeal vote.
“Although it’s the first of potentially many explosive votes, House Republicans’ willingness to spend political capital on a proposal that garnered the support of just 17 percent of the public in a March Quinnipiac poll is consistent with past scenarios that have generated a midterm wave,” Cook Political Report’s David Wasserman noted.
“Not only did dozens of Republicans in marginal districts just hitch their names to an unpopular piece of legislation, Democrats just received another valuable candidate recruitment tool.”
He went on to note, “Democrats aren’t so much recruiting candidates as they are overwhelmed by a deluge of eager newcomers, including doctors and veterans in traditionally red seats who have no political record for the GOP to attack – almost a mirror image of 2010.”
Wasserman went on to say, “Of the 23 Republicans sitting in districts won by Hillary Clinton in 2016, 14 voted for the repeal and replace measure.”
The Cook Political Report is an independent, non-partisan organization that analyzes elections and campaigns for the US House of Representatives, US Senate, Governors and President as well as American political trends.
