A new Morning Consult/POLITICO poll released this morning confirms what Republicans are worried about: they “got beat.” As new polling continues to show sky-high, bipartisan support for the American Rescue Plan that every Senate Democrat voted for and every GOP senator opposed, new reporting from POLITICO reveals that Republicans are asking themselves: “did we botch this?”
GOP strategists are worried that “the party did little to dent Biden’s major victory.” Newt Gingrich admitted that the GOP’s response was “a missed opportunity,” while one Republican aide bluntly confessed “we got beat on this one.” Republicans’ weak attacks never “seemed to resonate with voters, who…appear overwhelmingly supportive of the law.” And as the effects of the American Rescue Plan are already starting to be felt by millions of Americans across the country, the widespread support for the bill has the “potential for improving the electoral landscape for Democrats.”
“It’s no wonder that Republicans are panicking about their opposition to an enormously popular relief package with broad, bipartisan support across the country,” said DSCC spokesperson Stewart Boss. “When Senate Republicans unanimously voted against the American Rescue Plan, they voted against a commonsense agenda to put money in people’s pockets, expand vaccine access, help our schools safely reopen faster and rescue our restaurants and small businesses. As voters across the country are reading about exactly what GOP senators voted against, Republican attacks on this historic relief bill are becoming increasingly impossible to defend.”
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