WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is exploring options for salvaging the battered Republican health care bill.

But he's confronting a growing chorus of GOP detractors.

And there's deepening uncertainty over whether the party can resuscitate its bedrock promise to repeal President Barack Obama's overhaul.

A day after McConnell unexpectedly abandoned plans to whisk the measure through his chamber this week because he lacked the votes, fresh GOP critics popped forward.

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