Heller's health care views heat up Nevada Senate race

LAS VEGAS — Nevada Republican Sen. Dean Heller's sliding positions last year on a long-held GOP promise to repeal Obamacare are providing plenty of fodder for Democrats and activists hoping to stymie his re-election.

Heller, considered the most vulnerable incumbent GOP senator, opposed measures to dismantle former President Barack Obama's health care law before backing other versions that failed. The shifting stances drew attacks from the left and the right, and Democrats are not letting him forget it.

His opponent, first-term U.S. Rep. Jacky Rosen, has unleashed two health care-related ads in recent weeks that include footage of Heller's uncomfortable appearance at the White House last summer. President Donald Trump — with Heller at his elbow — threatened the senator's re-election over the issue.

"Look," Trump said at the time, "he wants to remain a senator, doesn't he?"

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