As Election Day 2024 approached, Republicans targeted Americans' health security in ways that surprised nearly everyone. After the 2018 midterm elections, Republican leaders came to an important conclusion: Voters tend not to like it when politicians target Americans’ health security. Six years later, as Election Day 2024 approached, much of the GOP apparently forgot the lesson. The Washington Post reported that the “surreal” circumstances have baffled many experts. To be sure, the GOP’s anti-