Found this article on the possible AHCA minefield facing the GOP:
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Fundraising surged nationwide as new recruits stepped up to challenge vulnerable Republicans who backed the plan. Among the vulnerable: two-term Rep. Tom MacArthur, R-N.J., who helped revive the bill by authoring a key amendment on pre-existing conditions.
"We have an opportunity to take down the person who was the author of Trumpcare 2.0," said Democrat Andrew Kim, an Obama White House national security adviser, who said he's now more likely to challenge MacArthur next year. Kim raised more than $43,000 online over the last week for a possible run.
"He owns every part of this," Kim said of MacArthur.
Democrats need to flip 24 seats between now and the 2018 elections to take control of the House. Of the 217 Republicans who backed the bill, 14 come from districts carried by Democrat Hillary Clinton last fall, and 24 serve in districts where Trump did not win more than 50 percent of the vote.
Republican Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, who is not seeking re-election next year, warned that the bill "has the potential to severely harm the health and lives of people in south Florida." Her open seat in Miami is considered a prime pick-up opportunity for Democrats.
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/trumpcare-gop-faces-political-fallout-063712749.html
Trump really likes to trot out that map of the US and boast about all the counties he won; the big problem is, in an awful lot of those counties he just scraped by, and, in many, he won (as in the general election tallies) with less than 50% of the vote: again, it is important to remember the majority of individual US voters did not vote for Trump and, in the Congressional elections, there is no 'Electoral College' mechanism to overrule the will of the voters; there, in the Congressional districts, when the voters speak, they have spoken...
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