After every Senate Republican just voted against the American Rescue Plan this weekend, the NRSC is now admitting that every single GOP senator put themselves on record opposing overwhelmingly popular legislation. The NRSC’s top spokesperson confessed to NBC News yesterday that “nobody denies that there’s some stuff in the bill that’s popular” — just days after the entire Republican caucus sought to obstruct that same desperately needed pandemic relief package.
He’s not wrong. Senate Republicans voted against $1,400 direct checks, resources to increase access to vaccines, local funding to help schools safely reopen and numerous other relief measures with sky-high approval. Polling shows the American Rescue Plan has “strong bipartisan support” that is holding steady despite “an uptick in Republican attacks.” The public – including a majority of GOP voters and numerous local GOP elected officials – wants this legislation to pass. Some Republican strategists are already lamenting that their party’s messaging has been “incoherent,” and the NRSC’s admission isn’t likely to help.
“Even the NRSC’s own communications team can’t deny the reality that the American Rescue Plan has broad support, including from most Republican voters,” said DSCC spokesperson Stewart Boss. “Senate Republicans can’t defend their opposition to putting relief checks in people’s pockets, expanding vaccine access, helping our schools safely reopen faster and rescuing our economy — and their case against this overwhelmingly popular package is an incoherent mess.”
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