AP FACT CHECK: Trump ad hits wrong target on health care
NEW YORK — President Donald Trump’s re-election committee is lashing out at Democrats in a new TV ad that incorrectly blames his critics in the opposing party for blocking fixes to the nation’s health care system.
The ad, which was set to broadcast on cable stations nationwide on Tuesday, seizes on “skyrocketing” insurance premiums “all while Democrats in Washington, D.C., block a better plan to repeal and replace Obamacare once and for all — obstructing our president just to score political points with the radical left.”
The ad comes as the Trump White House and GOP leaders in Congress struggle to revive efforts to repeal and replace Barack Obama’s health care law.
Despite the ad’s claims, however, the Republican Party’s health care problems are largely of its own making.