TX-07: Republican.tries to use health care to break through in race against Lizzie Fletcher
Houston Republican Wesley Hunt is trying to build a campaign around the very issue that helped put Republicans in the minority in Congress: health care.
“Every family deserves better healthcare at lower costs,” Hunt declares in a new ad airing on Houston television stations and on cable.
In the same ad, the 38-year-old Army veteran vows to protect families with pre-existing conditions while he’s walking with his wife Emily, who is a nurse practitioner.
While he’s far from explaining details in the ad or on his website, the emphasis on health care is in sharp contrast to the message of most Republicans running for Congress elsewhere in the nation. Few are talking about the issue in ads that Democrats used to great effect in 2018 when many campaigned against President Donald Trump’s efforts to dismantle the Affordable Care Act. That 2010 law protects people with pre-existing conditions from losing health care coverage, and more than 20 million Americans gained health insurance because of the law passed when Democrat Barack Obama was president.
Hunt’s approach is definitely unique, said Nathan Gonzales, of Inside Elections, a non-partisan publication that watches all 435 U.S. House races in the nation. It is typically the Democrats emphasizing health care, not Republicans who have struggled to put together a clear policy plan on health care that goes beyond repealing the Affordable Care Act.
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