EXCLUSIVE — President Joe Biden's reelection campaign is releasing a new video Thursday featuring several years' worth of promises by former President Donald Trump to repeal the Affordable Care Act and replace it with his own alternative healthcare plan.
In a video the president's 2024 campaign will be sharing to its Biden-Harris headquarters X page, the platform formerly known as Twitter, a list of claims made by Trump will scroll up the screen for two minutes straight. The promises from the former president include his pledge that “We will come up with healthcare plans that will be phenomenal” in 2015 during a campaign rally in New Hampshire to his vow to "cancel that Obamacare if we can win the case and give you great healthcare" while in office in October 2020.
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The new "Trump List" of times he committed to repealing the ACA and assured that he would pass a better plan for healthcare marks the significant emergence of Obamacare—thought to be an issue left in the 2010s—as a focal point for the Biden campaign.
The Biden reelection effort sees Trump's rehashing of the issue as a gift to its campaign, which they plan to take full advantage of. Biden's team will be hammering the issue of healthcare and the threat of Obamacare's removal every day for the foreseeable future, which it has already begun doing on social media and in official campaign communications.
The ACA proved to be popular among Americans, with 59% of adults viewing it favorably in 2023, years after its passage. Further, the policy is particularly liked among the groups that are expected to decide the 2024 election, especially if it becomes a rematch between Biden and Trump. According to data from KFF, 62% of independents view it favorably. In addition, 61% of the younger voting demographic, aged 18-29 years old, have favorable opinions of the ACA.
The video coincides with a new battleground state ad released Thursday by the campaign, which contrasts Biden and Trump's records and policy preferences on healthcare, particularly prescription drug costs. "Thanks to President Biden and Vice President Harris, families can afford medication now. The Biden administration lowered the cost of prescription drugs and passed laws to make health care more affordable," a pediatric nurse named Jody from Nevada tells viewers.
"The idea that we could go back to the policies that help the rich get richer and left so many people behind—I don't want to go back. Can't go back," she says, appearing to become emotional.
The ad began running in markets in Phoenix, Arizona; Atlanta, Georgia; Detroit, Michigan; Las Vegas, Nevada; Raleigh, North Carolina; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, according to the campaign as part of a $25 million ad buy.
“President Biden has made it a priority to lower costs and expand access to health care – and hard working Americans are seeing, and feeling, the results. It’s a stark contrast to Donald Trump’s America, where millions of Americans would lose their health care and see costs become even higher if his push to repeal the Affordable Care Act is successful,” Campaign Manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez said in a statement.
She added: “This ad will remind voters of the clear choice they’ll face in 2024: Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans who are hellbent on siding with big pharma and insurance companies that make health care costs for hard working Americans more expensive, or President Biden, who is laser-focused on making health care more affordable for your family and lowering the cost of prescription drugs.”
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Politico reported that Trump's campaign is crafting its own health care policy proposal, but it did not indicate when the plan is going to be released. The campaign further didn't say whether the plan is a "repeal and replace" style effort, which failed in the 2010s.
Trump's campaign did not provide comment to the Washington Examiner.