Voters once again favor Democrats over Republicans by a double-digit margin ahead of the 2018 midterm election campaign, according to a new poll released Sunday.
Half of registered voters prefer a Congress controlled by Democrats, while 40 percent want a Republican one, the Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll found. It’s a return to the double-digit difference between Democrats and Republicans on generic congressional ballots seen late in 2017 that had been reduced in recent months, in part due to voters seeing the effects of the Republican tax cuts.
And Democrats are excited to vote.
Asked to rate their level of interest in the midterm elections, 60 percent of Democrats ranked it at the highest level, compared with 54 percent of Republicans.
Democrats are aiming to overcome Republicans’ 23-seat advantage in the House and take the majority in November. In the GOP-controlled Senate, Democrats, or independents who caucus with them, are defending 26 seats, while Republicans are defending eight.
The poll’s findings come as voters are becoming slightly more supportive of President Trump’s job performance.
In the same poll, about 43 percent approved of Trump, four points higher than January.
The news agencies conducted the poll of 1,100 adults on March 10-14, and it has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.95 percentage points.
