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Blame McCain? Find a Better Scapegoat, Republicans
His Senate vote to save Obamacare didn’t make sense. But that wasn’t the reason for GOP election losses.
Republican Jason Lewis lost; he blamed McCain.
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Jason Lewis, a Republican congressman from Minnesota who just lost his re-election bid, has come up with a counterintuitive take on the Democratic takeover of the House: It’s the fault of John McCain, the Republican senator from Arizona who died in August.
McCain’s July 2017 vote against Republican legislation to repeal and replace Obamacare, Lewis argues, deprived Republicans of the ability to prove the critics of that legislation wrong.