Despite President Joe Biden's weaknesses, Senate Democrats are mostly sticking by him.
will be a drag on the ticket in November even as the party’s most vulnerable incumbents distance themselves from the president.
“We have superior incumbents and candidates running against highly, highly flawed Republican candidates,” Sen. Gary Peters , who chairs the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, said. “So, I’m confident we’re going to win.”Washington Examiner“Every special election and the midterm elections, polling has predicted disaster for Democrats. And the results have ended up being far better than polling would have suggested,” Sen. Chris Coons , a key Biden ally on the Hill, said.
Vulnerable Democrats, none more starkly than Sen. Jon Tester in deep-red Montana, have sought opportunities to break with Biden. Last week, he released a memo on his “long-standing track record standing up to President Biden” that Republicans quickly seized on as an election-year pivot. Fellow Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman took that argument a step further. He conceded there is “some correlation” between what happens at the top of the ticket and the Senate races but predicted the two are “going to be able to move independently.”
Sen. John Fetterman shakes hands with President Joe Biden at the Philadelphia International Airport in Philadelphia, Saturday, June 17, 2023, after an aerial tour of the Interstate 95 highway collapse. “So, at this point, we’re gonna work hard no matter what. We’re gonna work hard no matter what. And so, the polls right now mean nothing to me,” Stabenow continued.
Of the Senate Democrats up for reelection, Tester is perhaps the most vulnerable. He is running in a state that Trump won by 16 points in 2020. However, he is part of a long line of vulnerable swing state lawmakers on both sides of the aisle who have distanced themselves from party leaders.
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