John McCain In one of his many shots at McCain over the issue, President Trump said that but for his vote, “We almost got rid of Obamacare.” (Photo: ALM File)

Jason Lewis, a Republican congressman from Minnesota who just lost his re-election bid, has come up with a counterintuitive take on the Democratic takeover of the House: It's the fault of John McCain, the Republican senator from Arizona who died in August.

McCain's July 2017 vote against Republican legislation to repeal and replace Obamacare, Lewis argues, deprived Republicans of the ability to prove the critics of that legislation wrong.

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