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President Trumps push to pass the GOP healthcare bill risks alienating his base of grassroots conservative supporters, Tea Party leader Mark Meckler told The Hillon Tuesday.
Conservative activists have so far directed their ire at Speaker Paul RyanPaul RyanCruz: GOP a laughing stock if ObamaCare repeal fails Pelosi warns Ryan over changing healthcare bill Poll: Voters prefer ObamaCare to GOP plan MORE (R-Wis.). Unhappy with legislation they see as a half-measure, theyve dubbed the bill RINO-Care, a reference to Republicans in Name Only. But activists have stayed away from attacks against Trump, even as the White House whips support for the bill.
Meckler says that could soon change.
I think he has some honeymoon goodwill that is quickly evaporating, said Meckler, the former co-founder of Tea Party Patriots whose new group, Citizens for Self Governance, has a database of 2 million conservative activists.
If the grassroots don't see some aggressive moves soon on his part to push for full repeal, the honeymoon will come to a very quick and harsh end. I'm already hearing the rumblings.
The grassroots fuse is short on this stuff, Meckler continued. We are used to being betrayed by politicians. So that's what we expect. If Trump starts looking like a politician in that regard, his support from all but the most rabid supporters will quickly dry up.
I've spoken to a couple of serious Trump campaign volunteers this week. They are exceptionally frustrated with the RINO-Care mess, and Trump's role in it. So the disaffection is finding its way deep into his base.
So far, Trump has escaped blame for the White House push on a healthcare bill that is deeply unpopular with the base.
Over the weekend, Mecklers group Citizens for Self Governance conducted a survey of its members that found grassroots conservatives largely believe Trump has kept his campaign promises, while Republican leaders in Congress have not.
Sixty-seven percent of the more than 4,000 respondents gave Trump an A grade for keeping his campaign promises. Only 6 percent, on the other hand, gave GOP leaders a top grade on the issue of working with Trump to keep his campaign promises.
A plurality, 41 percent, gave GOP leaders a C on the issue of working with Trump to keep his campaign promises. Seventy-one percent gave GOP leaders a C, D or F grade.
Those results are in line with the early political fallout from the push to pass the GOPs controversial ObamaCare repeal and replace bill.
Trump has largely received a pass from grassroots conservatives, who have instead blamed Ryan and other GOP leaders for selling out on ObamaCare lite.
Trump met last week with leaders from several conservative grassroots groups, including Club for Growth, FreedomWorks, Tea Party Patriots and Americans for Prosperity. The heads of those groups emerged from the meeting blaming GOP leaders and Ryan in particular for putting Trump in a political bind.
That pass could be short-lived, Meckler said, as the White House has taken a leading role in whipping support for a bill that is loathed by base conservatives who have otherwise stuck with Trump through thick and thin.
The top issues for conservatives polled by Mecklers group are appointing Constitutionalists to the courts, repealing and replacing ObamaCare, making the military stronger, passing tax reform and rolling back Obamas regulatory actions.
Meckler said Trump has done well on the courts, the military and regulations. But Trump doesnt seem to be fighting for what he promised on healthcare and tax reform, Meckler said.
There was a phase when many were what I call Trump Drunk, Meckler said. If he doesn't get it together on this, we may be moving into the hangover phase.
That's not a critique of Trump, he continued. It's just that he has Congress and the Courts to deal with. The remedy for the hangover is for Trump to fight for what he said he'd fight for. The grassroots will not blame him for losing those fights, with Congress or the courts. They will blame him if he doesn't fight to keep his promises.
The Citizens for Self Governance members survey was conducted between March 9 and March 12. Members had 48 hours to fill out the questionnaire. The groups received 4,801 responses from conservative leaders and activists in all 50 states.
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Those who organized the tea party eight years ago still track the sentiments of their flock, and very carefully which is a good thing. This demographic often gets overlooked by pollsters, and often at the peril of political parties. A unique survey of 4,100 grass-roots folk in all 50 states reveals that the conservative, pro-America, small government, frugal-minded crowd have not abandoned their founding values. And theyre willing to grade the sprawling political-media complex in the nations capital.
Almost nine out of 10 89 percent gave Democrats in Congress a big fat F for their efforts to work with Republicans in Congress. Another 79 percent gave an F to the news media for their coverage of the new administration while 67 percent granted President Trump himself an A for keeping campaign promises to the grass roots.
The GOP drew a tepid response: 41 percent gave Republican leaders a C for working with Mr. Trump to keep his campaign promises while 37 percent gave Republicans in Congress a C on their ability to fulfill legislative priorities.
We heard from the most engaged activists around the country. These are the people who rarely get polled, and yet they are important because they have a disproportionate impact on both public opinion and the results of elections, says Mark Meckler, co-founder of the Tea Party Patriots back in the day and now president of Citizens for Self-Governance, a Texas-based activist group that conducted the survey.
If you want to know the future direction of American politics, you have to know what this group of citizens are thinking. This group is part of the reason the press was so wrong about the last election, Mr. Meckler says, vowing to ensure the 100 percent voters are part of the future political landscape not a bad idea for the GOP and Democrats to consider as well.
And about that political landscape: On Wednesday, Mr. Trump will stage one of his signature jumbo rallies in Nashville, Tennessee, C-SPAN will be there; airtime is 7:30 p.m. EDT.
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The din over Trumpcare is approaching fever pitch among the primary combatants: Purists loyal to President Trumps American Health Care Act, those who tolerate it, those furious at the Congressional Budget Office, fans of RyanCare, cranky conservatives and, of course, the ever-bubbling caldron of Democrats, progressives, liberals and fierce loyalists of Hillary Clinton.
There is a unique event Wednesday, however. The aforementioned Tea Party Patriots and FreedomWorks which espouses limited government and low taxes have organized an old-school Day of Action in Upper Senate Park right across the street from the U.S. Capitol. On hand to have their say before an estimated audience of 1,000: Republican Sens. Ted Cruz, Mike Lee and Rand Paul, plus Reps. Jim Jordan, Mark Meadows and Dave Brat. The traditional tea party tenets of yore will be in full flower: Lawmakers and tea partyers alike want the full repeal of Obamacare, a lower tax burden for Americans and the confirmation of Judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court. Things get underway at 1 p.m. EDT.
UPSIDE DOWN, INSIDE OUT
Consider upside down media. This convenient term was just coined by Fox News host Howard Kurtz, citing numerous press accounts that bashed President Trump in recent days. One such account stood out.
An outrageous lead in The Washington Post captured the animus that underlies much of the coverage of Donald Trump: A group of environmental activists pulled off a daring act of defiance. And what was this daring act? Mr. Kurtz demands. They snuck into Trump National Golf Club in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, and carved six-foot letters into the green (No more tigers. No more woods.) In other words, they broke the law and defaced private property.
The Post later amended the headline.
Try to imagine protesters vandalizing a property belonging to Barack Obama or Bill Clinton and having it initially hailed as an act of defiance, Mr. Kurtz says, also citing The New York Times for bias in an upbeat story covering rising ratings of anti-Trump liberal hosts like MSNBCs Rachel Maddow and Stephen Colbert of CBS.
Theres not a sentence of skepticism about the fairness of turning network shows into Trump-bashing vehicles or why the programs aired only gentle jabs at Obama. It just seems the natural order of things, Mr. Kurtz notes.
WELL AT LEAST THERES TAX CUTS
The American Health Care Act will repeal Obamacares tax hikes on tens of millions of middle income families. The repeal bills net tax cut: $883 billion over the next 10 years, according to Congressional Budget Office numbers released today, reports Americans for Tax Reform.
The repeal bill will abolish Obamacares individual and employer mandate tax, abolish numerous taxes on Health Savings Accounts and Flexible Spending Accounts, eliminate the chronic care income tax hike, the health insurance tax, the medical device tax, the tax on prescription medicines, and a raft of other new or higher Obamacare taxes, the group says.
So thats something.
Repealing Obamacares taxes will provide much needed relief to the paychecks of families across the country, says Grover Norquist, president of the nonpartisan coalition of those who oppose any and all tax increases.
Obamacare, from the start, was a trillion-dollar collection of tax hikes with a stethoscope stapled to the top, Mr. Norquist adds.
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Fans of Fox News Channel prime-time host Tucker Carlson and his robust take on news of the day take note: Mr. Carlson will present an exclusive interview with President Trump on Wednesday from Detroit his first sit-down interview with the president since he was elected.
Yes, the health care whoop-de-doo is on the agenda. Things get underway at 9 p.m. EDT.
POLL DU JOUR
41 percent of Americans have changed their social media habits since the presidential election.
31 percent say they changed their habits because social media was upsetting them too much.
27 percent changed because they wanted to interact with more like-minded people.
24 percent said social media was too political.
20 percent said it was too time-consuming, 16 percent said it was too distracting.
Source: A YouGov poll of 1,000 U.S. adults conducted March 3-6 and released Tuesday.
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