Health care politics Dozens of Democratic candidates challenging incumbent House Republicans have already made Obamacare, and the GOP’s efforts to repeal it, a central part of their campaigns. (Photo: Shutterstock)

The Trump administration handed Democrats a political gift by arguing in court that Obamacare’s most popular provisions are unconstitutional, just five months before a midterm election in which health care ranks as voters’ top issue.

Repealing Obamacare has been a rallying cry for Republican candidates for the past eight years. But some GOP lawmakers and political operatives sounded warnings on Friday about the impact of the Justice Department’s decision to side with Texas and other states in a lawsuit alleging that because Congress nullified the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate penalty, the rest of the law is invalid.

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