Biden's $1.9 trillion stimulus plan passed using a mechanism known as budget reconciliation without a single Republican vote. Most rural voters did associate Democrats with extended unemployment benefits and state aid, though. The poll surveyed 2,149 voters in nine battleground states - Arizona, Georgia, Iowa, Kansas, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Wisconsin - and while 68% of those voters supported stimulus checks, it's clear Democrats weren't getting credit for a cornerstone of President Joe Biden's American Rescue Plan. "We're not connecting with these voters, even if we have great policy," JD Scholten, the executive director of the Rural Objective PAC, told Greg Sargent and Paul Waldman of The Washington Post, which previously reported on the poll's findings. The first two were distributed under President Donald Trump's watch, but while not a single Republican voted in favor of the third round, only half of rural voters in a new poll gave Democrats any credit.Ī poll conducted by Rural Objective PAC - a super PAC that works to build support for Democrats in rural areas - found that 50% of voters in rural areas associated providing COVID-19 stimulus checks to American families with the Democratic Party, while 32% associated the payments with Republicans, 11% associated them with neither party, and 7% weren't sure. Sign up for the 10 Things in Politics daily newsletter.Īmericans have so far received three direct payments from the federal government in response to the coronavirus. This is notable given that no Republicans voted for President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion stimulus.Ī persistent feature of American politics is voter unawareness of government's role in their lives. Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty ImagesĪ poll by a rural super PAC found only half of rural voters credited Democrats with relief checks.
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