Democratic SC Senate nominee: 'Medicare for All is a policy from a few decades ago'
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Annie Andrews wants South Carolina voters to know she's not that kind of Democrat. Medicare for All, she says, is "a policy from a few decades ago," like it's a flip phone or a Blockbuster card. Funny, because Bernie Sanders was still running on it in 2020, and half her party's base still treats it like scripture.
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South Carolina Senate Democratic nominee Annie Andrews on Wednesday dismissed Medicare for All as an outdated policy as she seeks to become the first Democrat to win a statewide race in the Palmetto State in more than 25 years. “Medicare for All is a policy from a few decades ago,” Andrews, a physician, told host
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Annie Andrews wants South Carolina voters to know she's not that kind of Democrat. Medicare for All, she says, is "a policy from a few decades ago," like it's a flip phone or a Blockbuster card. Funny, because Bernie Sanders was still running on it in 2020, and half her party's base still treats it like scripture. But Andrews is running in South Carolina, not Brooklyn, and she knows the math. No Democrat has won statewide there in over 25 years, and you don't break that streak by sounding like a Fresno State faculty lounge.
This is the same move Democrats make every cycle in red states: sand off the edges, talk like a moderate, hope nobody checks the tape. It's not really a policy reversal. It's a costume change. The ideas that animate the national party haven't gone anywhere. They just get tucked away when the zip code changes.
Give her credit for reading the room, at least. South Carolina voters aren't interested in a government takeover of their health insurance, and pretending otherwise would be its own kind of malpractice for a doctor turned candidate. But voters there have gotten good at spotting the pattern. A Democrat swears she's different, wins or loses, and either way the platform in Washington stays exactly the same. If Andrews really thinks Medicare for All is yesterday's news, she should say so on MSNBC, not just on a South Carolina radio dial where it's convenient.
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