If that is his and the general Pub message next Fall, both are in for a rude awakening. Trump and the Pubs won last year in part on the message that they had a great health care plan, and that the ACA was the worst piece of legislation. Most of the electorate could at least recognize that the ACA had some serious flaws, and many voted Pub to give them a chance at solving the issue. It is now painfully evident to all but the most ardent of Fox viewers and Breitbart readers that the Pubs did not have a plan. Instead, they operated in secret, rather than holding hearings giving insurance industry, consumer reps, and AMA & AHA reps a seat at the table. Their 1st 2 iterations of their plan were opposed by the AHA, AMA and consumer groups and was only endorsed by the insurance industry. Their last iteration of a bill was panned by not only the AHA, AMA and consumers, but also by the insurance industry. There was literally no affected group who was okay with the bill.
Race baiting, foreign policy, trade issues and the like don't directly affect the average American. Health insurance and care affects us all. In fact, I can say that Trump is the 1st president ever to affect directly my life with his refusal to subsidize industry payments, and my payment is tripling, as I commented on another thread. Brat and other Pubs are cray cray if they seriously believe the majority of the public won't be blaming them for our looming health care implosion. VA voters as much said so in yesterday's exit polls. If the Pubs continue to let the ACA implode, which Trump appears wont to do, they're going to be the ones held responsible in 2018 and 2020. But if they're reading yesterday's results correctly, they should move on to Plan B and ask Lamar Alexander to save their butts by working on a bipartisan deal. Then they can trot that out there and say they fixed the ACA. That would be a much easier spin. But I doubt that that is the path they will choose.