#EndorseThis: Trevor Noah Dramatizes The Terrors Of Trumpcare

#EndorseThis: Trevor Noah Dramatizes The Terrors Of Trumpcare

To Trevor Noah, the Senate Republicans’ insistence on hiding their Trumpcare bill is reminiscent of a teenage boy hiding to masturbate. “What are you doing in there?!” demands America, banging on the Senate door. “Nothing!” cries an excited Majority Leader Mitch McConnell as he finishes off Medicaid.

It’s a raunchy metaphor, but the Republicans have earned such unrestrained derision — and the Daily Show host delivers. In fact as Noah explains, Congressional Republicans deployed the most shameless lies to frighten voters away from the Affordable Care Act, inventing “death panels” and “health insurance for illegal aliens.” Now he shows how Democrats could use the same scare tactics to make Americans even angrier about the mysteries of Trumpcare.

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North Carolina GOP's Extremist Nominees Excite Democratic Strategists

Michele Morrow

In 2020, Joe Biden narrowly missed capturing North Carolina’s 16 electoral votes, losing the state by a slim 1.4-percentage-point margin. But that was nearly four years ago. Before the Dobbs decision. Before Donald Trump’s 91 felony indictments. And before last week, when the state’s GOP voters nominated a guy who favorably quotes Hitler, has compared LGBTQ+ people to insects and larvae, and thinks a six-week abortion ban isn’t quite extreme enough for governor. Tar Heel State Republicans also nominated another extremist, Michele Morrow, for superintendent of the state’s schools.

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