Planned Parenthood, Democratic pollsters say Coffman tempts political fate on defunding

A Democratic polling firm and Planned Parenthood have a message for Rep. Mike Coffman: 58 percent of the voters in the 6th Congressional District don’t want him to cut funds for Planned Parenthood.

Public Policy Poll, a left-leaning firm based in North Carolina that tends to find what Democrats like to hear, released surveys from 13 swing districts across the country Tuesday. On the face of the results, Republican congressional members should take pause before voting on a new healthcare plan that takes political shots at Planned Parenthood.

“These results make it clear that targeting Planned Parenthood — or trying to replace the Affordable Care Act with the American Health Care Act more generally is politically perilous for swing-district Republican members of Congress,” Tom Jensen, director of Public Policy Polling, said in a statement.

“Voters in these districts like Planned Parenthood, they like the Affordable Care Act, and efforts to hurt those things will imperil the Republicans in these districts as they look toward reelection next year.”

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