Democrat candidates on the wrong side of voters on issue of making DC a state

Politico:

Every Democrat running for president in 2020 has come out in favor of making Washington, D.C., the nation’s 51st state. But a new Gallup poll found support for granting full statehood to D.C. as low as ever — across the political spectrum.

The Gallup survey, the firm’s first national poll on the issue, found 29 percent of adults polled in June support statehood, and 64 percent oppose it. While support was slightly higher among women, nonwhite voters and self-identified Democrats, no group had even close to a majority of respondents in favor.

“People just don’t see the reason why D.C. should be a state,” Gallup senior editor Jeff Jones told POLITICO. “They're comfortable with the status quo.”

That's not the case in the Democratic political class: Pete Buttigieg has made it a plank of his racial justice platform. Michael Bennet included D.C. statehood in his sweeping political reform plan. A record 216 House members have co-sponsored a bill to put the District on equal footing with states — just two shy of the 218 votes needed to pass the bill in the lower chamber.

But as public opinion has shifted wildly over the past few decades on everything from LGBT rights to "tough on crime" legislation, it has remained nearly static on the question of D.C. statehood. And, Jones noted, it’s not as though the American public is opposed to adding any new states at all.
...

I doubt any Republicans support giving Democrats two more Senate seats.  But it appears that the opposition is more widespread than just Republicans.