President Trump reportedly has a backup plan in case Trump care goes down in flames.

He'll simply leave Obamacare in place, blame Democrats, and then stump for more Republican votes

in Congress to help him replace Obamacare.

Yes, really.

According to CNN, quote, during an hour-long meeting, sources said Trump chastised groups

including Club for Growth, the Heritage Foundation, Americans for Prosperity, Freedom Works,

and the Tea Party Patriots for calling the House House GOP proposal Obamacare Light, warning the Tea Party activists, quote, you are helping the other side. Trump said he will have a football stadium event in states where he won by 10 to 12 points, and he is going to dare people to vote against him, a source at the meeting said. This is not a good strategy. Here are three reasons. First, you cannot keep selling people the same smelly garbage. Republicans said in 2010 they needed to be elected to Congress to repeal Obamacare. They failed. They said in 2012, they needed the Senate to repeal Obamacare. They failed. They said in 2014, they needed a bigger majority in the House to repeal Obamacare. They failed. They said in 2016, they need the White House to repeal Obamacare. If they fail again, do you really think Republicans will keep going back to the well on the same old promise when Republicans could pass a one-line bill repealing Obamacare now? As Alapundas says at hot air, at some point people get wise to the scam. Second, entitlements don't fail. They just grow. Who thinks that Obamacare is going to fail for those on Medicaid? Anybody? Nope. States will continue to pile people on Medicaid. Those people will continue to vote for Democrats. The entitlement program will get bigger or not smaller, and when people on Obamacare plans can't obtain their doctor, who's to say they won't go to the government for more money and bigger subsidies, rather than decrying the evils of Obamacare. We're already seeing a spike in Obamacare's popularity.

Now there's talk of replacement. Do we think that will stop when Republicans vow to kill a law

affecting a larger and larger share of the health market? No entitlement program has ever gotten

less popular over time, no matter how bankrupt it is. Let's put it this way.

Obamacare is already popular enough that Republicans are afraid of killing it outright. Give it

another couple of years, and Republicans will be talking about how they want to preserve it,

the same way they do with Social Security and Medicare. Finally, it's a midterm stupid. The president

typically doesn't have the upper hand in midterm battles. That's because, as Alupunda also points out, midterm elections are naturally almost always referenda on the president and his party.

Does Trump really think he can run against Obama in 2018?

Plus, Trump already has control of Congress.

Who does he run against? The Democrats, who don't matter because they're already in the minority?

So, is a decent strategy to let Obamacare stay and then run against it? Not once you've made. Not once your president. Promises were made. They should be kept. The biggest problem here is that Trump care has less to do with the actuality of repealing Obamacare than the rhetoric of it. And talk is pretty cheap. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is the Ben Shapiro show. All right, tons to get to today.

I want to talk a lot about this Steve King blow-up that's happened because I think that it's pretty clear that the media are doing a hit job here. And this is coming from somebody who says that, you know, when the media is right, the media are right. When they are calling it accurately, they're calling it accurately. I'm not somebody who's knee-jerk when it comes to the media's always wrong, the media is always lying. Sometimes the media is right. Sometimes the media is wrong. In this case, I really think that Steve King is getting railroaded a little bit. And some of that's his own fault because he uses verbiage that is really kind of stupid. But some of that, a lot of it, I think, is just the media lying.

And so I want to talk about that specifically in just a minute.

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