ted cruz called it reasonable as recently as this june. it shouldn t come as a surprise. he promised to repeal, quote, every word of obamacare during his 2016 presidential campaign. he also led a shutdown of the federal government against his party s own wishes, holding the senate floor for 21 hours and once he ran out of things to say famously did this. do you like green eggs and ham? i do not like them, sam, i am. i do not like green eggs and ham. seuss casting. a recent cnn poll shows health care is the number one issue for voters heading into the midterms. pre-existing conditions is considered very important for 75% of americans, even a majority of republicans support it. the health care fight is trending to the democrats advantage. senator republicans have floated a bill that would keep the protections but there s one big problem. it doesn t limit what insurance
and two others who egged brett kavanaugh on who deny it. heidi, thank you. let s go to garrett who is on capitol hill. we want to play a little bit of what they had to say in the new yorker in a second. garrett, to you, first. susan collins office, she has been a key player. she s not expected on the hill,g as this unfolds not just today, but throughout the week as we get closer to thursday. reporter: it s going to be a pressure cooker on the hill over the next few days focused on the senators, including susan collins, the swing votes in this case. we are starting to see the kinds of protest, the kind of citizen engagement on capitol hill we haven t seen since the health care fight with different groups bringing protesters up here,
pence met with. right now two appeals court judges are seen as leading advocates. brett kavanaugh, a veteran of george w. bush s white house, and amy coney barrett, a former law clerk to justice antonin scalia. liberal groups are hoping to counter using similar tactics from last year s health care fight. political strategists are raising millions in advertising and activism to target senators lisa murkowski and susan collins, both who buck their own party s attempts to repeal the affordable care act. according to the erkt associate press, rand paul has told colleagues he may not vote for kavanaugh if he is nominated. a person familiar says the senator cited kavanaugh s role during the bush administration on cases involving executive privilege and the disclosure of documents to congress. rand paul always says that and then votes for whatever
the congress for the republicans. he plans to devote a lot of his time keeping republicans in control. he said, quote, i m going to spend probably four or five days a week helping people because we need more republicans. i m remembering back in the early days of the health care fight and i said he was going to be out on the road all the time and that never materialized. what do you think? is he actually going to be out there a lot and will republicans want him to be? it should congresswoman to a relief to republicans if he s not in the white house. when he was in asia, the republicans specifically paul ryan, thought that would be a good time to make progress on the tax bill. it s going to be difficult he can just go to deep red places and help run up the score. he can go to places where the democrats have not had a terrific candidate and get the sense he s helping the party. but there are a lot of places where he s not going to be
reaction to it and i think we re maybe not done. i hope so i hope we re done, but, yeah, there is no question there is a reaction to that. californias, he s the second one this week, right? ed royce also from california also announced he s retiring. there are parts in california where these republicans are going to have who probably haven t had a race with the exception of issa in awhile. dana rohrabacher is one of the people in the margin signal districts now. i think there are five of them among some of the most vulnerable republicans. it s definitely a state to watch and see how some of these other republicans, either, you know, mount a defense or decide this is the last symone, i think there about 23 house seats where there are republicans in districts that hillary clinton won. that hillary clinton won and darrell issa s seat is one of those seats. he had a very tough time during the health care fight and he was faced with different town halls and just a lot of british. s