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A Fox News poll released on Wednesday shows that voters prefer Democrats over Republicans to handle most issues.
According to the poll, voters favor Democrats by nine points when it comes to the economy. Democrats have not led by that much on that particular issue in a Fox News poll since 2006.
Fox News Chief Political Analyst Brit Hume joined Bret Baier on Wednesday’s Special Report to assess the survey, which indicates that only 24%% of Americans rate the economy as “excellent or good.”
“You look at the condition of the economy,” Baier said. “And this is the one, for midterms, we look at closely. And that is ‘excellent or good,’ 24%; only ‘fair or poor,’ 76%. And that has got to have Republicans, Senate and House, concerned.”
“Absolutely, Bret,” Hume replied. “And the truth is, there’s not much good news for Republicans in this whole poll we did. Underwater on the economy, as you showed, underwater on affordability. Those two issues are front and center for sure.”
Hume noted that the poll shows Republicans ahead of Democrats on crime and national security, but nowhere else.
“And the other thing is, of course, on the question of intensity and voter sentiment,” he continued. “It appears Republicans are down, but if you add the people who are very likely or extremely likely to vote, the difference for Democrats is very slight. So, Republicans can take some faith or and some hope from that. With an unpopular incumbent in this particular presidency in its first midterm, the way of history is pretty strong, and the party in power in the White House has historically, with very few exceptions, done very poorly in a midterm like this one.”
Back on Monday, Hume noted that the Iran war may also be a problem for Republicans heading into November’s midterms.
“I think the president’s in kind of a tough spot here in that sense,” he said at the time. “And he promised to keep us out of endless wars or unsatisfactory wars, and now he’s in one, and it’s not at all clear how it’s gonna end. So, he’s vulnerable on this point, and in political terms, he does need to get this over with. But what he may need his time, and he doesn’t have a lot of time.”
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