In a March 7 interview with Breitbart News, Johnson said that if Republicans took control of Congress in 2022, they could “actually make good on what we established as our priorities.”
And Johnson went straight to Obamacare as an example. “If we’re going to repeal and replace Obamacare—I still think we need to fix our health-care system—we need to have the plan ahead of time so that once we get in office, we can implement it immediately, not knock around like we did last time and fail,” he said.
The Wisconsin Republican, who is up for reelection in November, later attempted to walk back those comments, saying he “was not suggesting repealing and replacing Obamacare should be one of those priorities.”
But by that point, it was too late. Democratic organizations had already blasted out a seemingly endless stream of press releases about Johnson’s comments, designed to put vulnerable Republicans on the spot.
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