Coons dismisses Biden’s low approval numbers: Democrats have ‘consistently’ ‘overperformed’ polls
by Miranda Nazzaro - 03/03/24 12:26 PM ET
Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) on Sunday brushed off low favorability numbers for President Biden and his policies, arguing Democrats often “overperform” polls when it actually comes down to the elections.
Anchor Shannon Bream pointed to recent Fox News polling that shows the majority of voters disapprove of Biden’s job, with his worst ratings over border security. She said Biden is “underwater” on a variety of issues, including the economy, China, inflation and the Israel-Hamas war.
Pressed by this finding, Coons told “Fox News Sunday,” “First, what matters is how people vote. And we have consistently, as Democrats, overperformed polls, not just in the special election that just happened in Long Island, in the midterms in ’22, but in election after election.”
Coons was referencing New York’s 3rd Congressional District’s special election last month, in which Democrat Tom Souzzi defeated Republican Mazi Philip to fill the seat of former Rep. George Santos (R), who was ousted from the lower chamber in December in the wake of various criminal charges and a scathing ethics report.
In the 2022 midterms, Democrats defied low expectations and were able to grow their majority in the Senate, along with retaining and winning a number of gubernatorial and state-level races.
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