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I asked it a couple of different ways: “Do you think you made a mistake last year?” or, “If you had the choice in a year, would you change your vote?” Nobody was interested in Trump. No, and also none of these people regretted their choice and wish they had voted for Trump. It’s Biden, Democrats - they all come together.īut it’s not like with Trump, where voters single him out? Biden himself take the blame with these voters? Is his name invoked? That may very well have been the best message that McAuliffe had, but if we are in that position again, we’re going to lose a ton of races. They said, “Oh, these silly ads that compared Youngkin to Trump - he just doesn’t seem like that guy.” The thing that these people disliked about Trump was that they didn’t like Donald Trump the person it wasn’t Donald Trump the constellation of policies. The respondents kind of laughed at that approach. I think showing some empathy on that could go a long ways in terms of: Yes, closing schools was hard on kids and hard on parents. Voters don’t think that in general a lot of Democrats felt really bad about closing the schools or felt like it was really a negative on people. Youngkin is that we’re 18 months into Covid, and voters are simply fatigued and want somebody to blame? Those are the things they talk about, meat and groceries - those are the things they really see. They know what the cost of a pound of ground beef is supposed to be, or boneless skinless chicken breast. How much of that is driven by the day-to-day lived experiences of people?Ī ton of it. They just see costs going up and don’t feel like there’s any progress being made yet. Voters don’t think Democrats are addressing big issues in their lives? Some of those things may be in a piece of legislation others are things the White House did. We should spend 2022 talking about things we’ve done to lower costs for working families and to get people back to work. So you think Democrats next year should spend the bulk of their time trumpeting their legislative accomplishments from this year?

And that applies to members of Congress, state legislators, everyone on down. So you need to tell your story about what you’ve been doing, to the press and in paid communications, outside of Covid. So it’s all anybody knows of what they’ve done.

#Midterm elections polls tv#

Governors, in particular, during Covid were on TV all the time, talking to people about Covid. A Morning Consult/Politico poll from May found Republicans were still more enthusiastic about voting in the midterms than Democrats (61 versus 54), even after Politico leaked a draft opinion. So what can Democrats do going into the midterms?Ī big part of the problem was that people didn’t feel they knew enough about McAuliffe and what he had done. I’m not advocating for us ignoring social issues, but when we think broadly about voters, they actually all want us talking about the economy and doing things to help them out economically. 1 issue for Latino voters is the economy. 1 issue for Black voters is the economy, and the No. 1 issue for women right now is the economy, and the No.

How do Democrats balance a commitment to core constituencies while at the same time addressing economic issues that voters are confronting every day?