House Republican “majority” immediately hits a wall

| 9:00 pm EST December 3, 2022
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While right wingers love to lambast President Biden’s approval ratings and largely clung to them with the false hope that they’d win big on election night this year, that largely didn’t happen. The problem is, if Republicans really want to go by that metric, their own disapproval ratings are seismically worse. A recent poll of the incoming Republican House majority put them at 60% disapproval and they polled even worse among the independents that often decide how these races are going to go.

This is one poll, but bear in mind that polling for President-elect Biden around this time in 2020 was over 60% approval – indicating a strong ceiling for support. The incoming House majority, which does not presently have the votes for an official leader, can absolutely poll worse than they currently are – and they probably will when they waste everyone’s time and tax dollars on frivolous investigations of Hunter Biden and officials of this administration that go nowhere. It also doesn’t exactly help their image when they can’t decide on the next house speaker – nor can they divorce themselves from the craziness of Marjorie Taylor Greene.

What’s clear is that the problems Republicans hoped to ride to a red wave have largely been stemming off since this summer – inflation and high gas prices – while the economy continues to thrive. It’s never been clearer that Democrats are the party delivering on solutions for the American people and we’re in a clearer position than ever to make gains in 2024.