By Thomas McKinless and Steven Dennis

White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest offered advice to Republican presidential candidates advocating more focus on mental health to stop gun crimes: Embrace Obamacare. “If they say that they want to work with the administration on mental health care, and if that’s the real way that we’re going to stop … these heinous acts of gun violence, then I’ve got some good ideas about how they can do it,” Earnest told reporters at the daily briefing.