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Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) heavily criticized Hillary Clinton and Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), the Senate minority leader, for their dramatic attacks on the Republican Senate leaderships health care bill.

On Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell released the Republican leaderships plan to replace the Obama-era Affordable Care Act. The bill, titled the Better Care Reconciliation Act, would scale back numerous Obamacare mandates, regulations and taxes, but would keep much of the basic framework in place.

Within 30 minutes of the 142-page bill being released, Schumer, who had accused Republicans of keeping the bill a secret as recently as the day before its release, hammered the legislation, calling it meaner than the legislation passed in the House of Representatives in May, the American Health Care Act.

This #Trumpcare bill strips away protections from the ppl [sic] who need them most in order to give a tax break to those who need it least, Schumer wrote on Twitter almost immediately after the bill was released.

Frankly, every senior in America should read the fine print of this #Trumpcare bill; it looks like American seniors could be paying WAY more, Schumer added, along with several other critical posts.

Schumer also said the bill is meaner than the AHCA and heartless.

Not to be outdone by her fellow Democrats, Clinton said on Friday the Republicans are now the death party.

Forget death panels, Clinton wrote on Twitter. If Republicans pass this bill, theyre the death party.

On Saturday, Huckabee appeared on Fox News Channels Fox & Friends, where he criticized Clinton, Schumer and other Democrats for attacking the health care bill.

Huckabee said Clintons rhetoric makes the parties look silly and shows they dont have an argument.

And when rhetoric goes to that level, I think it makes the parties look silly, Huckabee said. It sort of reveals they dont have an argument, they cant discuss the merits of a piece of legislation or a proposal, so theyre reduced to the most childish form of political rhetoric, which is to say, Youre a bad person. Youre going to kill somebody. Its so over the top; its just absurd.

I think the guy is clairvoyant, Huckabee quipped.

The curtain needs to come down on this theater, because the play is getting tiresome, Huckabee added.

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It's no secret that President Donald Trump is incredibly unpopular: FiveThirtyEight, a data-focused news site, had his average approval rating at 38.4 percent Wednesday.

But even as approval of Trump has declined steadily since he took office in January,his opponent in the 2016 presidential election, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, has not seen her popularity rise one bit.

Just 41 percent of Americans view the former secretary of state favorably, according to a poll released by Gallup Wednesday. Fifty-seven percent, meanwhile,view Clinton unfavorably. Those figures are virtually unchanged since November, when Clinton lost the election in a somewhat shocking upset. At about that time, Gallup found 43 percent viewed Clinton favorably while 55 percent viewed her unfavorably; since then, her numbers have held pretty steady at 41/57.

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The Gallup poll interviewd 1,009 adults from June 7 through June 11. It had a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.

That Clinton hasn't seen a bump in support represents an anomaly from historical trends. "Over the past quarter century, the favorable ratings of losing presidential candidates generally have increased after the electionsome in the immediate aftermath and others in the months that followed," Gallup wrote Wednesday. Typically, losing candidates can expect to see a bump in favorability of about 4 points, according to Gallup.

After initially withdrawing from the spotlight after the election loss, Clinton has re-entered the public sphereoften to criticize Trump or Republicans in general. She has recently tweetedabout the GOP's health care plan, for instance.

The matchup between Clinton and Trump pitted two remarkably unpopular presidential candidates against one another. Clinton has said she was to blame for her Election Day loss, while adding some caveats.

"I take absolute personal responsibility. I was the candidate, I was the person who was on the ballot. I am very aware of the challenges, the problems, the shortfalls that we had," Clinton said in a May interview, before adding she had been"on the way to winning until a combination of Jim Comey's letter on October 28 and Russian WikiLeaks raised doubts in the minds of people who were inclined to vote for me and got scared off."

Apparently, many people are still frightened.

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President Trump openly questioned on Saturday whether the Obama administration wanted to damage Hillary Clinton's chances in the 2016 election by not immediately reacting to evidence of Russian meddling.

"Obama Administration official said they 'choked' when it came to acting on Russian meddling of election. They didn't want to hurt Hillary?", Trump tweeted Saturday afternoon.

The Obama administration official he is quoting is one from a Washington Post report on Friday that said former President Barack Obama was given information in August 2016 about Russian President Vladimir Putin delivering specific instructions to his operatives to undermine Clinton's campaign in favor of Trump's. It wasn't until October that Obama finally addressed the public about the suspected Russian hacking. Obama then slapped sanctions on Russia in December and reportedly authorized a cyber weapons project targeting in Russia's infrastructure.

Clinton, who served as Obama's secretary of state from 2009 to 2013, lost the Nov. 8 election. Obama had endorsed her and campaigned on her behalf.

Trump's tweet Saturday, which he sent after spending several hours at his golf course in Virginia, could be a conclusion that he reached in answer to the question he tweeted in response to the Post report Friday evening: "The Obama Administration knew far in advance of November 8th about election meddling by Russia. Did nothing about it. WHY?"

He also seemed to address the investigations into Russian interference in a tweet urging that the focus be placed on the Obama administration and not himself. "Since the Obama Administration was told way before the 2016 Election that the Russians were meddling, why no action? Focus on them, not T!", he tweeted.

The U.S. intelligence community reported in January with "high confidence" that Russian operatives worked to meddle in the 2016 presidential election.

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"Hillary Clinton to me is the Jane Fonda of the Vietnam," Baldasaro said in July. "She is a disgrace for the lies that she told those mothers about their children that got killed over there in Benghazi. She dropped the ball on over 400 emails requesting back up security. Something's wrong there."

"This whole thing disgusts me, Hillary Clinton should be put in the firing line and shot for treason," he added. The US Secret Service then said it was investigating his remarks.

Baldasaro later said that he regretted "saying it the way I did" and blamed the "liberal media" for running with it.

At the time, Trump said he wasn't aware of Baldasaro's comments but told a local channel that he was "a very fine person."

"I will tell you hes a very fine person," Trump told local New Hampshire TV. "Nobody wants to take care of the veterans in this country, who have been treated horribly, more than Al, so that's what I know," Trump said.

Baldasaro told BuzzFeed News later that year that he stood by his comments on Clinton, but contended that they were misunderstood.

In a tweet Friday, Baldasaro responded to the controversy over his attendance at the bill signing, saying, "Fake News, nothing new! Nobody advocated shooting Hillary, just an opinion in accordance with law & CONSTITUTION on treason."

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Former secretary of state and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton at BookExpo 2017 at the Javits Convention Center in New York.(Photo: Andrew Gombert, EPA)

Hillary Clinton had some strong words on Fridayfor Republicans over the Senate health care bill.

In a tweet, Clinton said the GOP would be "the death party" if the bill passes the Senate.

Clinton's post was a retweet of a column from the Center for American Progress, a liberal advocacy group,and Harvard researchers that claims roughly 18,000 to 28,000 people could die in 2026 if they were to lose coverage due to the new policy.

Clinton isn't the only former Democratic presidential candidate criticizing the bill. On Thursday, Barack Obama wrote in a Facebook post, "This bill will do you harm."

Obama and Clinton's words seemed to echo President Trump's initial assessment of the House's own legislation to repeal Obamacare. According to a GOP Senate aide,Trump said the House health care bill was "mean."On Thursday, after the Senate version was released, Trump said it needed "a little negotiation, but it's going to be very good."

As of Friday,five Republican senators have said they oppose the bill. If no Democrats vote in favor of the legislation, only two GOPers would be needed to stop it from passing.

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