Emanuel: Medicare For All “An Untenable Position For The General Election”

President Obama’s former chief of staff Rahm Emanuel weighed in Democratic presidential candidates’ “Medicare For All” proposals Sunday morning on ABC’s “This Week” roundtable.

RAHM EMANUEL: The risk you said, and which is appropriate, and it measures up as, health care is the single issue that Democrats have a 35-point advantage on. President Trump’s trying to do everything he can to narrow that down. We have taken a position so far, and the candidates have, through the process — a few have not — about — on basically Medicare for all, which is, we’re going to eliminate 150 million people’s health care, and we’re going to provide health care for people that have just come over the border.

That is an untenable position for the general election. As you know, George, I just biked around Lake Michigan, nearly 1,000 miles, through Michigan and Wisconsin, two really important states. Nobody at a diner ran at me and said, take my healthcare away. Nobody. This is — this is reckless as it relates to — and you don’t have to take the position to win the primary. And you’re basically literally hindering yourself for the general election.