By Itunuoluwa Adebo

In an Oval Office meeting featuring several leaders of conservative groups already lining up against the House Republican plan to repeal and replace ObamaCare, President Donald Trump revealed his plan in the event the GOP effort fails: Allow Obamcare to fail and let Democrats take the blame.

During the hour-long meeting, sources said Trump chastised the groups — including Club for Growth, the Heritage Foundation, Americans for Prosperity, FreedomWorks and the Tea Party Patriots — for calling the House GOP proposal “Obamacare lite,” warning the tea party activists, “you are helping the other side.”

In true Trump fashion, the President jumped into salesman mode, sources at the meeting said.

“This is going to be great. You’re going to make it even greater,” the President told the group. “I’m going to work hard to get it done.”

The meeting between Trump and the conservative leaders also included White House senior advisers Steve Bannon, Reince Priebus, Kellyanne Conway and Marc Short, as well as other top West Wing staff.

According to CNN , White House aides showed some openness to one aspect of the House GOP plan that has become an irritant to tea party aligned groups: the provision that pushes back an overhaul of the expansion Obamacare Medicaid funding until 2020. The conservatives at the meeting asked that the date be moved up to January 1, 2018. WH aides said they were “open to discussing” it.

Concerns were also raised about the tax credits in the plan which allows lower-income Americans to buy health insurance, financial assistance that tea party groups see as subsidies.

Confident that the health care plan will pass the House, Trump laid out his strategy for winning passage in the Senate, telling the meeting he will campaign heavily in red states featuring vulnerable Democrats up for re-election. ‘

“The president expressed that he was open to things that could improve the bill, but was also clear that this is the vehicle — this is the chance to repeal and replace.”

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