“The challenge is that members don’t want to be primaried,” said Glen Bolger, a veteran Republican pollster. “These seats are mostly drawn as Democratic or Republican seats, so the way to lose isn’t in November, it’s in a primary.” Read more about how the winning candidate is decided in the primaries here.
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“Incumbents always get into trouble in their first term by trying to overreach,” Republican pollster Neil Newhouse said this month. Read more about the different views on Biden’s approach to his first 100 days here.
Neil Newhouse, a Republican pollster, said he saw three foreign policy issues resonating with GOP voters: limiting immigration, taking a more difficult stance opposed to China (which many blame for the spread of the coronavirus), and ending foreign entanglements. Read more about Republican foreign policy here.
100 days: The Biden honeymoon is ending. Our months long suburban voter research for N2 America shows initial praise for Biden on handling COVID now giving way to concerns over the economy, tax policy, spending, and angst about the border crisis. View the full deck here.
Steve Liesman of CNBC writes: The CNBC All-America Economic Survey, a poll of 802 Americans nationwide, shows 36% of the public gives the infrastructure plan a thumbs-up compared with 33% who oppose it. The edge is within the poll’s 3.5% margin of error and it’s about half the level of support garnered by Biden’s $1.9 […]
