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Independent Voters Support Democratic Plans to Expand Social Security Benefits [1]
['Timothy Bresnahan']
Date: 2022-05-26
By Alex Lawson
Earlier this year, Senator Rick Scott (R-Fla.) released an 11-point governing agenda for his party. That agenda includes a plan to “sunset” Social Security and Medicare if Congress doesn’t vote to reauthorize them every five years. Scott isn’t just a random senator — he’s the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. When he says he wants to destroy Social Security and Medicare, he is speaking for his party.
Democrats, including President Biden, have rightfully slammed this plan and vowed to make it a central issue in November’s midterm elections. But new polling from Data for Progress shows that there’s a more effective message than simply slamming Scott’s plan: contrasting the Scott proposal with Democratic plans to expand Social Security benefits.
The polling finds that telling Independent voters about Scott's plan and Democrats’ opposition to it makes them 39 points more likely to vote for a Democrat. But telling them about the Scott plan and Democrats’ proposal to increase Social Security benefits makes them 58 points more likely to vote for a Democrat. That’s a 19-point difference — a significant margin in a year where frontline Democrats are facing tough re-election odds.
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