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Can the Democrats deliver a better deal?

Hello again, I'm Arun Alney, and this is To the Point.

Bill Clinton's winning campaigns for the White House operated on the basic premise

that it's the economy stupid. But last year it was Donald Trump, who appealed to working class

and rural voters, those the Democrats now call left out and left behind by economic changes.

Their new slogan, A Better Deal, starts with increased wages, lower drug prices, and the end of corporate

mergers. Polls show Democrats are the party against President Trump, but to win elections,

they have to favor something, too. We'll hear what they want it to be. Later on today's talking

point, President Trump talks politics at the Boy Scout Jamboree. First, here's the news.

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Well, we're only back with To the Point. Since Donald Trump's upset of Hillary Clinton last year, Democrats have lost four special elections in different parts of the country.

Now they're trying to persuade voters that they are more than just the party against President Trump.

We'll hear their opening offers.

Today's talking point, last night in West Virginia, President Trump addressed a large crowd

with his standard speech about Hillary Clinton, fake media, and a threat to fire one of his

cabinet members. But it wasn't a political rally. Today, the Boy Scouts of America are protesting that they're wholly nonpartisan.

First, this news update. President Trump got something he wanted today. The chance of repealing Obamacare is still alive in the Senate.

There was a tie vote on whether to begin debate, broken by Vice President Mike Pence.

It's not yet clear what's in the bill, but the

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