The 2018 Democratic Midterm Voters Joe Biden Needs to Retain – The New York Times
Two years ago, a flood of anti-Trump sentiment helped flip the House of Representatives blue, with Democratic candidates winning more votes than Republicans by nearly 10 percentage points nationwide a record margin for a party that had been in the minority.
Because the 2018 election was largely seen as a referendum on President Trump, Democratic strategists are looking to carry those gains forward. Indeed, national and swing-state polls continue to show Joseph R. Biden Jr. with a steady lead particularly in the suburban areas where Democrats made some of their biggest gains in the midterms.
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But Mr. Biden may not be able to count on the same level of support that Democratic candidates received in 2018. Some of the groups that swung hardest in Democrats direction that year have been slow to warm to Mr. Biden. Compared with an authoritative study of the 2018 midterm electorate released this week by the Pew Research Center, recent polls show the party s presidential nominee lagging behind the rates at which certain key demographics broke for the Democrats two years ago.
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