The Hamilton Spectator

McCain will vote against Republican health bill

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U.S. Sen. John McCain declared his opposition Friday to the GOP’s lastditch effort to repeal and replace "Obamacare," dealing a likely death blow to the legislatio­n and, perhaps, to the Republican Party’s years of vows to kill the program. It was the second time in three months the 81-year-old McCain emerged as the destroyer of his party’s signature promise to voters. With the Arizona senator’s defection, there are now two declared GOP "no" votes on the repeal legislatio­n. That’s the exact number Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell can afford to lose and two more senators are leaning against the bill.

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