ICYMI: “Democrats head home with a clearer message for voters” [Washington Post]

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Washington Post: “Democrats head home with a clearer message for voters”
By Paul Kane
August 7, 2021

Key Points:

• This August, Democrats are returning home with a much more focused message. On Tuesday, three Democratic political committees unveiled a plan for how to sell President Biden’s agenda to their constituents, with just three bullet points: middle-class tax cuts; an infrastructure plan to create jobs; and lower health-care costs.

• Democratic pollsters tested…different messages near the end of July with voters in six battleground states, finding that one theme stood out as the overwhelming winner with voters: “Cutting taxes for middle class families, creating jobs by investing in infrastructure like roads, bridges and high speed Internet, and cutting your health care costs. No one making under $400,000 will pay more taxes.”

• The economic focus comes after Friday’s employment report showed nearly 950,000 new jobs and the unemployment rate falling to 5.4 percent, the lowest since the coronavirus pandemic crushed the economy in early 2020.

• All this as Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) is on the verge of securing passage of a more than $1 trillion infrastructure plan, with a sizable pocket of Republican support, that would create public works jobs across the nation.

• “Every Republican voted against these tax cuts for American families,” the Democratic campaign committees wrote in their recess memo.

See also: McClatchy: Democrats plan to highlight ‘middle-class tax cut’ during congressional recess; HuffPost: Senate Democrats’ Plan For The Summer: It’s The Economy, Stupid.

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