The growing Republican advantage

 Conn Carroll:

A Wall Street Journal poll out today has some truly devastating numbers for Democrats. Not only do Republicans hold a 46-41 lead over Democrats on the question of whom voters plan to vote for this November, but Republicans now lead Democrats by 9 points among Hispanic voters, and they only trail by 35 among black voters, compared to 56 points just four months ago.

Voters believe Republicans are best able to handle almost every problem except for COVID-19, education, and healthcare. On the economy, inflation, crime, securing the border, fixing immigration, keeping children in school, handling foreign policy, and even managing the situation in Ukraine, voters trust Republicans more than Democrats.

They even beat Democrats on the question of which party best looks out for middle-class families.

As Democratic strategist Ruy Teixeira pointed out a couple of days ago, Republicans have actually been the party of the middle class for some time. “In the 2020 election, Trump carried the overall working class (noncollege) vote by 4 points, about the same margin he had in 2016," Teixeira wrote. "The same data source also shows Republicans carrying the working class Congressional vote in three of the last four elections.”

Teixeira also noted that as much as Democrats wish it was only white working-class voters becoming Republican, that is not the case. “Since 2012, nonwhite working class voters have shifted away from the Democrats by 18 margin points, with a particularly sharp shift in the last election and particularly among Hispanics,” Teixeira wrote. “This gives Democrats’ nonchalance about their losing record among working class voters a bit of a whistling past the graveyard quality.”

...

It tells you just how out of touch Biden is, but also the Congressional Democrats who have been pushing the AOC-Bernie Sanders agenda which is way too kooky for most Americans. 

See, also:

Democrats Cratering With Latinos, Poll Shows 
Hispanic voters by 9 percentage points back Republicans in midterms

And: 

WSJ's dead-cat-bounce poll: Dems, Biden losing ground on all fronts

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