Breathing Room for Red State Democrats

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One of the biggest consequences of the terrible CBO score for the Republican health care plan is that four red state Democrats who are up for re-election in 2018 — Joe Manchin (D-WV), Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND), Claire McCaskill (D-MO) and Joe Donnelly (D-IN) — now have a pretty good reason to vote against the bill.