Opinion: House Republicans should be getting nervous about November. Democrats might even add to their majority in the upcoming elections.
, “The COVID-19 pandemic has all but frozen House recruitment and fundraising, shielding Democratic incumbents with big financial head starts. Now, Republicans’ path to picking up the 18 seats needed to win back the majority now looks slim to non-existent.” With former vice president Joe Biden at the top of the ticket rather than self-proclaimed socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders , the crop of moderate Democratic freshmen who won swing seats in 2018 can breathe a sigh of relief.
As Trump’s standing erodes even further, there is good reason to believe House Republicans will fare poorly, as well. “President Trump’s poor standing — evidenced by polls on his handling of the outbreak and against Biden — could limit the universe of districts where his presence atop the ballot helps GOP candidates,” Wasserman warns. “Historically, even presidents who win reelection have had short coattails.
Republicans have a few choices. First, they can at some point throw in the towel on Trump and run simply as a check against a President Biden. Such as strategy is not likely to emerge — if it happens at all — until the final stretch of the race . Second, they could start taking popular positions: Support first responders, teachers and health-care workers by funding states and local governments; give up on repealing Obamacare; stop shoveling subsidies to big corporations and insist on real oversight of the trillions already spent; and refuse to endorse what seems to be Trump’s too-bad-about-the-deaths attitude in seeking a quick reopening of business.
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