Democrats are out of touch with voters on issues currently grabbing headlines, according to a GOP poll commissioned by the party’s campaign honchos for Senate and governor’s races.
CRITICAL RACE THEORY BECOMES A TOP ISSUE IN VIRGINIA GOVERNOR’S RACE
The survey of 1,200 likely voters released on Monday, sponsored by the National Republican Senatorial Committee and The Republican Governors Association, focused on Republican, Democratic, and independent voters in 26 senatorial and gubernatorial battleground states.
Among the poll’s top findings, 56% of respondents blame President Joe Biden for increased illegal immigration.
The poll, conducted from June 1-3, with a margin of error of 2.8%, comes as an expected surge of migrants toward the U.S.-Mexico border puts the Biden administration on the defensive.
Sen. Rick Scott of Florida, who heads the Republican campaign committee as it seeks in 2022 to overturn Democrats’ razor-thin majority, with the parties effectively at 50 seats each and Vice President Kamala Harris casting tiebreaking votes, talked up the illegal immigration issue Monday on a conference call.
“I think it’s clear that Biden’s honeymoon’s over,” Scott said. “It was pretty short on immigration. I think the president and Harris had just made a terrible mess of the border. And as much as a lot of people think the media is trying to help them, the public is clearly aware this is a complete failure.”
Harris, who was put in charge of the Biden administration’s response to the crisis at the border, scored poorly on the immigration issue. Just 9% said Harris was “very effective,” and 22% saw her being “somewhat effective.” And 51% viewed her as “not effective at all.”
Other poll results show why Republicans are hitting specific issues hard this cycle.
Those issues include critical race theory, a form of legal analysis that says inherent racism is widespread and ingrained in American society. The poll question showed an overwhelmingly negative response against the statement, “The United States was founded on the practice of slavery and white supremacy which continues to this day.”
Sixty-eight percent of all voters and 76% of independents disagreed with that notion, as did 28% of “strong Democrats.”
Also scoring low marks was the phrase “White Americans are inherently racist whether they know it or not because they benefit from the American culture of systematic racism and white privilege.”
According to the survey, 63% of all voters disagreed with the statement, and 65% of independents felt it was wrong as well. Thirty-nine percent of “strong Democrats” disagreed with the statement as well.
“I think this time, critical race theory is an absolute disaster for the Democrats. Socialism and defunding the police were both disasters last time,” Scott said. “Parents want their schools to teach what we used to. I got taught reading, writing, arithmetic, and not indoctrinating them with left-wing political theories.”
As for the rise in inflation, the majority of the survey’s respondents blame the president’s economic policies, 51% to 45%.
RGA Chairman Doug Ducey, governor of Arizona, said the current playing field works in the GOP’S favor — there are 38 governor’s races in 2022, with 16 GOP incumbents. And pickup opportunities in states with Democratic governors, including Colorado, Connecticut, Kansas, Maine, Michigan, New Mexico, Nevada, and Wisconsin.
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“I don’t think there’s ever been a greater contrast between Republican governors and Democrat governors than we have right now and how Republican governors are getting people back to work,” Ducey said. “And 80% of the time when a Republican governor wins that race, the Senate seat follows Republican,” Ducey said.
However, while the NRSC, RGA, and other GOP political organizations are prone to support incumbent Republican lawmakers, former President Donald Trump has already endorsed a Republican challenger to Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski.
