PJ Media - Cruz: Any GOP Candidate Who Doesn't Make 2016 a Referendum on Obamacare Should Drop Out Now

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By Bridget Johnson

After today's Supreme Court ruling in favor of Obamacare subsidies, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) declared that the 2016 election will be a referendum on Obamacare and any candidate who disagrees should drop out.

"Every GOP candidate for the Republican nomination should know that this decision makes the 2016 election a referendum on the full repeal of Obamacare," Cruz said in a lengthy statement today.

"I have made repeal of this disastrous law a top priority since the first day I arrived in the Senate and have made its repeal central to my campaign," the freshman senator said. "Any candidate not willing to do the same--and campaign on it every day--should step aside."

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), another freshman vying for the White House, told CNN that he wants to reform Obamacare, but it's "hard because we don't have the leverage."

"If we had the leverage where the president had to revisit this because part of it had been struck down, then we would have the leverage to force the president to revisit it," Paul said.

"We have majorities and so we can bring it up and we can pass legislation, but getting the president to actually do something about it and actually have the leverage to get him to perhaps sign something that would change Obamacare, I think we've lost that leverage."

The third freshman senator running for president, Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), issued a statement: "I disagree with the Court's ruling and believe they have once again erred in trying to correct the mistakes made by President Obama and Congress in forcing Obamacare on the American people."

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