Dems to unveil Orlando billboard attacking Trump
The Florida Democratic Party is unveiling a billboard in Orlando criticizing President Trump on his health care policies.
The billboard will be in English and Spanish and will run from Monday — when Trump was supposed to have attended the Healthcare Informational and Management Systems Society conference in Orlando — until March 15.
The HIMSS conference, one of the largest health care conferences in the country, was cancelled Thursday due to coronavirus fears.
The billboard will read, “Trump’s America: The rich get richer, the sick get sicker” in English and Spanish. It will also read, “What Democrats fight for: Patient protections, Lower drug costs, Strengthen Medicare.”
The ad will be part of a “Fight for Health Care Tour, a series of roundtable discussions designed to “hold Trump accountable for his three years of failed health care policies, contrasting the president’s repeated attempts to reduce access to care with the Democratic agenda to expand affordable, accessible health care,” the FDP said in a statement.
The discussions will include state Chair Terrie Rizzo and local health care medical professionals, community leaders, and patients with pre-existing conditions.
The party cited the Trump administration signing onto a lawsuit to overturn the Affordable Care Act, which will be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court and “could cost 1,560,000 Floridians their coverage and eliminate the law’s pre-existing condition protections.”
The party also criticized the Trump administration’s Medicaid block grants, which they say would reduce coverage and services, as well as the Trump White House’s proposed budgets which would have cut “hundreds of billions of dollars” from Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security programs.
The Florida Democrats previously launched a billboard earlier this year in Kissimmee in advance of a Latinos for Trump event featuring Vice President Mike Pence.
The billboard showed a photo of Trump throwing rolls of paper towels to victims of the hurricane in Puerto Rico and includes the phrase “Prohibido Olvidar,” as well as the English translation, “Never Forget.”