Republicans have lost ground on some key measures. But more than anything, it’s a headache when the GOP’s fortunes were improving.
Rep. Matt Gaetz , left, leans in to speak with House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan during a hearing in February. The way things in Congress work these days, everything appears hopeless and unresolvable right up until the moment it gets resolved. Brinkmanship is one of the only potentially effective motivators, which gives us a skewed picture of what to expect. A case in point: the seemingly inevitable government shutdown last month that ultimately didn’t happen — at least not yet.
But one needn’t understand the arcane procedures of the House to grasp the very basic facts here. Those facts are that Republicans haveto execute what is quite literally the first order of business for the one lever of lawmaking power they control right now.. That’s up from the mid-to-high 60s in recent years and is tied for the party’s highest congressional disapproval since 2012.Democrats’ disapproval was also up and historically on the high end, but the GOP’s was 10 points higher.
It’s the first time the pollster has asked this question, so we don’t have a direct historical comparison. Butfrom last year suggests it’s a shift. It gave people two similar options about members of the two parties:“They simply want what’s best for their party, even if it hurts the country.”Perhaps more to the point when it comes to the speakership chaos, the Quinnipiac poll also suggested that Americans see a significant difference between the Democratic-led Senate and the GOP-led House.
After McCarthy’s election in January, the blame was pretty evenly proportioned between progressive Democrats and conservative Republicans and between moderates of both parties. But today blame for Democrats has remained about the same, while blame for conservative Republicans has increased by seven points and for moderate Republicans has increased by 11 points.We shouldn’t oversell these splits and shifts.
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