Donald Trump’s team says Bill Clinton is a terrific surrogate — for them.
“President Bill Clinton is our best surrogate,” Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”
“We’re thinking of having him in the spin room with us in St. Louis,” Conway added, referring to the location of next week’s presidential debate.
Conway was referring to Clinton earlier this week calling ObamaCare — President Obama’s signature legislative achievement — “the craziest thing in the world.”
“You’ve got this crazy system where all of a sudden 25 million more people have health care and then the people that are out there busting it, sometimes 60 hours a week, wind up with their premiums doubled and their coverage cut in half,” Clinton said.
But by Wednesday morning, Clinton was backtracking, professing his strong support for the health care law.
“I strongly supported that bill. It’s given more than 20 million people insurance and it’s repealed the most insidious thing that affected millions of families — the pre-existing condition (provision). But there are problems with it. And everybody knows it,” he said.
Clinton said he doesn’t agree with Republicans who want to repeal ObamaCare and take away insurance from some 20 million people — and maintained that his wife can fix it by expanding eligibility or having another public option.
“Insurance doesn’t work well for health care. The company that writes property and casualty and life insurance, it’s all much more predictable with much bigger pools and much less variation. In health care, virtually all the costs are claimed every year by 20 percent of us and it’s a shifting 20 percent. We got to fix that. But it’s all doable. It’s a question of whether you believe we’re better in this election lashing off in anger or embracing answers,” he said.