I don't understand how this confers political benefit to the republicans or the white house. Can somebody explain a non conspiracy model how this helps them electorally running into the midterms?
Is there some way aside from the obvious mistruths they can demonstrate its the democrats fault, and achieve some electoral advantage?
Wyoming is extremely "red" according to Web searches (I am not an american)
My default assumption here is, it cannot, and this is going to cost them seats.
Extremely red states don't care. They won't flip at all. And none of the districts are even remotely competitive. Only the primaries matter.
A cursory look says Wyoming has a population of ~580k and ~340k registered voters. The article says Wyoming has 46k people on ACA. Republicans win landslides in Wyoming (40%-50% margins) and 46k people is 12% of voters max (likely closer to ~4% at risk).
Thanks. So, the upside is saving money, at the expense of alienating poorer voters in (this example) a state where their majority is so big they don't care.
The "upside" is national-level PAC money financing your campaign.
It won’t even save money in the long run.
When people don’t have access reliable healthcare, they tend to use even more expensive (for society) options like emergency rooms and grey/black market. People who become disabled or die from lack of healthcare don’t tend to pay much in the way of taxes.
All indications show that this is absolutely terrible for republicans' self interest, and popularity. trump has gone from winning the popular vote ~~(over 50% voted for him)~~ (a plurality of 49.8% voted for him) to polling at the 30%s. The recent 2025 elections (an off-year, so a variety of smaller elections at the state / city level mostly) have shown democrats are absolutely performing much better right now. This is not contested by either party.
> Is there some way aside from the obvious mistruths they can demonstrate its the democrats fault, and achieve some electoral advantage?
You discount the skill republicans have at lying -- regardless, when people are feeling the pinch in their pockets, they will blame whoever is in power. Currently it is the republicans.
<<trump has gone from winning the popular vote (over 50% voted for him)>>
Trump received 49.8% of the popular vote.
You are right there. a plurality, then.
they've reached a local maximum and the only simulated annealing in their party (Trump) doesn't care about this issue at all.