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President Donald Trump claimed the U.S. has the “best healthcare plans in the world,” even if not everybody has coverage..
Trump made the bold claim as part of a wide-ranging and rambling interview Sunday morning with Larry Kudlow on Fox News,
“We have the best healthcare plans in the world. Now that doesn’t cover everybody, but it covers a lot of people,” Trump said.
“And, you tell the union, you tell the autoworkers, they’re going to lose their healthcare plans…” Trump said, seemingly referring to autoworker futures. “It’s socialized medicine, and it never works.”
Kudlow began the interview by telling Trump he thinks he’s been “on a roll” campaigning for GOP candidates ahead of November’s midterm elections.
“I mean, you’ve been relentless, you’ve been campaigning. It’s herculean. You’re turning the tide, you’re getting voters out, you’re raising enthusiasm,” Kudlow said.
“The economy is booming. We’re the hottest in the world, stocks are doing great, drug prices are coming down. Oil is flowing through the Persian Gulf. I mean, I think in the last month you may have turned this whole thing around,” Kudlow claimed before asking if Trump thinks Republicans can maintain the majority in the House and Senate this Election Day.
“I have worked very hard, I have done 14 rallies in nine days, and it’s a lot,” Trump, 80, replied.
Trump has embarked on a campaigning blitz across the country, trying to motivate his MAGA base in a near-daily barnstorming effort to boost the Republicans’ prospects in the midterms amid his deeply unpopular war in Iran and as Americans continue to struggle with the cost.
“I give myself a lot of credit. I mean, I’m being thanked –win lose or draw, I’m being thanked by everybody in the party,” Trump claimed.
However, his persistent efforts — and encouraging his supporters to act as though he is on the ballot — appear to be backfiring, according to a recent poll.
While polling has shown that Democrats are likely to gain a majority in the House during the midterms, Democratic voters are more motivated to vote against the president in the November 3 elections than Republicans are to turn out at the polls and support Republican candidates, a poll from Politico found.
The poll found that 48 percent of Democratic midterm voters said they are voting “mainly to oppose” Trump, compared to 38 percent of Republican voters who said they are voting mainly to show support for the president.
Trump’s frenzied campaign efforts also come as his approval rating hits record lows. A New York Times/Siena College poll from last week put his approval at just 34 percent — the lowest for a president nearing midterms since Harry Truman in 1946.
The president, however, has not let it faze him, telling The Washington Examiner’s Byron York in an interview published Saturday that the recent polling figures are “fake,” and that his support is closer to 60 percent.
