Doug Jones: Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett could be 'torpedo' for Affordable Care Act
The incumbent Democrat, facing a difficult path to re-election and echoing an argument made by other members of his party, argued during a Facebook event that Judge
“This is not about Roe v. Wade or guns as much as it about your health care,” Jones said on Wednesday. “This nomination is nothing more than a torpedo fired by the Trump administration to blow up the Affordable Care Act, something they could not do legislatively.”
Jones made similar comments late last month when he said he would not vote on any nominee’s confirmation before the election, saying the nomination timeframe was too compressed. Republican
Jones seems to welcome the argument. The ACA prevents insurers from denying coverage based on pre-existing conditions. The senator cited statistics from the
If the ACA was struck down, Jones said, those protections would and put the issue “back in the hands of the big insurance companies. We will be at their mercy.”
Trump and other
A replacement version of the law passed by the Republican-controlled
Jones faces a major challenge in winning re-election.
More: Nearly two-thirds of
A poll from
“This race is moving exactly the way we want it to move,” Jones said.
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The senator has leaned into health care and the COVID-19 crisis in the closing weeks of the campaign while accusing Tuberville of being a “stalking horse” for Trump and Senate Majority Leader
The senator also said he wanted a broad relief package with multiple areas of relief. He said a
“I don’t think it would be appropriate to allow the president of
The senator also criticized former
Jones called the remarks “horrible.”
"It is so inconsistent with the values of the people of Alabama,” Jones said. “It is so inconsistent with the Christian values they pretend to support."
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