(Committee to Unleash Prosperity) – A flurry of polls show President Trump’s approval is underwater and voters are nervous about the GOP agenda.
But that’s not the whole story.
CNN polling guru and analyst Harry Enten points out the continuing problems that Democrats have in the Washington Post poll and others in convincing voters to trust them on key issues.
Who leads on the economy? Republicans by seven. Immigration? Republicans by 13. How about crime? A big issue for Donald Trump and the Republicans. Look at that, lead by 22 points!
So the bottom line is, at this particular point, the ball may be on the ground, but the Democrats have not picked up the ball and running with it.
If anything, at this particular point, it’s the Republicans who are running with the ball on the top issues, the economy, immigration and crime.
Among the key group of independents, Republicans lead Democrats by one point on the economy, by 10 on immigration and a whopping 21 points on crime.
Enten says that even if voters don’t particularly like what Donald Trump is doing, “At this particular point, Democrats are not able to beat Republicans.”
A big reason for that in the Washington Post survey is that Americans see Democrats as more ideologically out of step: 54% say they think the political views of Democrats are “too liberal,” compared with 49% who say the views of the GOP are “too conservative.”
