He is a heck no on trump care. Im a heck no on this. I think theyve got problems with the vote. Ive personally spoken to 29 of my conservative colleagues who are no on this as of today and were not even counting the moderate republicans who are a no. I think theyve got a lot of arm twisting to do between now and thursday if theyre going to pass this bill in the house. Does he sound scared to you . Because congressman massey was in the room today when donald trump came to the House Of Representatives to urge republicans to vote for the bill. Here is how congressman massey describes tough guy donald trump. Threatening and pushing around all those republicans who oppose the bill. He was very charming. There was some lighthearted jabs at his opponents in the room but it was all in good fun. Lighthearted jabs. That ought to do it. Thats what tough guy trump is delivering to republican opponents of his bill. Thomas massey doesnt claim to
be a tough guy the way donald trump does, but he certa
necessarily the ticket to getting them on board. additionally, there s no evidence that trump would be able to leverage to actually go after gop house members. tease are district by district battles, not national media based advertising wars or air wars. as you cited in the run-up there, the health care bill is not particularly popular. so these folks are not going to face challenges from the right necessarily, let alone ones where donald trump would be a major factor in whipping up support for a primary challenger. let listen to what congressman david brat told conservative caty tur today. do you believe this vote is going to happen on thursday? right now we re aiming for it. aiming for it sound like you re not very confident you re going to have it. i don t think there s the
yesterday. take a listen. we are now 41 straight months of unemployment above 8% and what does the president do he says he is going to raise taxes on people. he is trying to gut welfare reform as we know it and launches attacks of this nature. it s beneath the dignity of his office. gregg: is that the real challenge for romney. work the main subject back to the topic line? of course it is. but what should be satisfactory answer tenure at bain the issue won t go away. obama says they were not satisfied with mitt romney s answer and they are asking for more years of tax returns. mitt romney says he won t do. so until he gives more of an answer and gives more tax returns, we won t hear an end to this discussion. gregg: romney is being outgunned in advertising wars
either by the speaker or the president. yeah, there s a couple reasons for that, lawrence, i think. first of all, in this house freedom caucus, you have folks that are just personally predisposed to opposing the leadership. we ve seen that time and again. so i don t think that either having the leadership or donald trump lean on them is necessarily the tkt icket to getting them on board. additionally, there s no evidence that trump would be able to leverage to actually go after gop house members. tease are district by district battles, not national media based advertising wars or air wars. as you cited in the run-up there, the health care bill is not particularly popular. so these folks are not going to face challenges from the right necessarily, let alone ones where donald trump would be a major factor in whipping up support for a primary