President Joe Biden’s visible physical decline continues to show Americans he’s no spring chicken for the toughest job in the world, and now Democrats are resurfacing intentionally divisive attack lines on former President Trump and congressional Republicans after his sham trial convictions failed to weaken him in the polls.
The newer term, “threats to democracy”, is now meant to harken negative feelings from January 6, 2021, and stoke motivating fear to vote for Biden. This approach is nearly the same as in 2020, when Democrats narrowly won by making a vote for Biden really a vote against Trump, sans the January sixth reference, of course. Then, as now, their pitch to voters neither addressed their most pressing concerns nor cast a positive vision for the future.
Data shows this tack lacks connectivity to what the term ‘threats to democracy’ means for individuals, creating even more confusion among the crucial 10 to 15 percent of voters needed to swing this election. However, those voters are different than the 15 percent who say ‘threats to democracy’ is their top concern this election. Unsurprisingly, those people are older Democrats who voted for Biden in 2020 and wholeheartedly buy the term’s implied meaning.
Only a narrow slice of the electorate sees this issue as important. Voters are much more concerned about the economy and immigration, as are Independents. So why, then, are Democrats planning to use ‘threats to democracy’ as their new theme of attacks? It’s simple: they don’t have good answers to the top two most pressing issues for voters: the economy and immigration…
Read the full op-ed by Cygnal Pollster and Director of Political Strategy Mitch Brown in Townhall: Trump’s Trials Fail to Weaken Him in the Polls, So Dems Have Pivoted to a More Nebulous Attack (townhall.com)