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He did it last week too.

Republicans will totally protect people with Pre-Existing Conditions, Democrats will not! Vote Republican.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 24, 2018

The claims are false, and, as we recently pointed out, they embody the theme of Trump projecting his own unpopular positions onto his opponents.

The facts are that health insurance protections for people with preexisting medical conditions is a major tenet of the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare.

Republicans in the House voted over 50 times to repeal the law after the law was enacted in 2010. When they took control of the Senate in 2016 they proposed to repeal Obamacare and replace it with a law that would weaken protections of people with preexisting conditions. It failed to pass.

Turns out, this election cycle many Republican candidates are keyed into the fact that this is a really popular aspect of the law, and many of them are out there on the stump saying they'll keep these protections.

The problem, for them, and for the president, is that 20 Republican state attorneys general have signed onto a Texas lawsuit to overturn Obamacare with no replacement in sight. Many Republicans are actively fighting to overturn the law.

Meantime, the claim that Democrats will not support protections for people with preexisting conditions has no basis in fact. Remember that Obamacare passed with zero Republican support.

\"I will never lie to you\"

Finally, if you didn't watch ABC News' Chief White House correspondent Jonathan Karl interview with the president this week... do it now.

He pressed the president on his need for up to 15,000 troops at the border for what he has falsely described as a migrant \"invasion.\"But when this election is long forgotten, here's one quote from that interview that likely won't be.

.@jonkarl asked Pres. Trump whether he has 'always been truthful' to the American people:

\"When I can, I tell the truth. And sometimes it turns out to be where something happens that’s different or there's a change, but I always like to be truthful.\" https://t.co/XUbdD7nNE3 pic.twitter.com/TkYFhqS8oC

— World News Tonight (@ABCWorldNews) November 1, 2018

KARL: \"And finally I remember well – you remember well in the campaign, you made a promise. You said, 'I will never lie to you.' Can you tell me now, honestly, have you kept that promise at all times? Have you always been truthful?\"

TRUMP: \"Well I try. I do try. I think you try too. You say things about me that aren’t necessarily correct. I do try, and I always want to tell the truth. When I can, I tell the truth. And sometimes it turns out to be where something happens that’s different or there’s a change, but I always like to be truthful.\"

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