Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky was numb and had worked the last three months to attempt to craft legislation to repeal and replace Obamacare that his Senate colleagues would embrace, obviously to no avail.

"This was really disappointing wasn't it?" said McConnell after the 1:30 am Friday morning Senate vote that toppled President Trump's campaign promise to end Obamacare and keeps in tact public policy that defines, in part, the legacy of Obama, the nation's first Black president, and Trump's all so articulate predecessor.

McConnell had said that repealing and not replacing Obamacare was also acceptable to him, a stance taken in recent weeks as the bill, officially titled the American Heath Care Act of 2017, became mired in controversy after passing in the House of Representatives in May with Democrats in both the House and Senate in staunch opposition to the proposed legislation.

On Tuesday Senate Republicans, with Rob Portman from Ohio aboard as well as Arizona Sen John McCain, who is fighting brain cancer, voted 51-50 to move forward with debate on Trumpcare.

Led by Organizing for Action, opponents of the bill have regularly protested against Portman in recent months, and often at his door step at the federal building where his Cleveland office is located.

A Washington Post poll released two Sunday's ago says Americans prefer Obamacare by a 2-1 margin and as support of the legislation increases Trump's approval rating is decreasing, having dropped from 42 percent in April to 36 percent.

Notably, the bill, among a host of mandates, required an overhaul of medicaid funding and was  opposed by Ohio Gov John Kasich, a 2016 unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination for president. And it was aimed at eliminating the core mandates of Obamacare, including the annual financial penalty against Americans who fail to secure health care insurance.