WASHINGTON (NYTIMES) - US President Donald Trump's erratic performance in office and his deteriorating standing in the polls is posing a grave threat to his party's Senate majority, imperiling incumbents in crucial swing states and undermining Republican prospects in one of the few states they had hoped to gain a seat, according to a new poll of registered voters by The New York Times and Siena College.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump's erratic performance in office and his deteriorating standing in the polls are posing a grave threat to his party's Senate majority, imperiling incumbents in crucial swing states and undermining Republican prospects in one of the few states they had hoped to gain a seat, according to a new poll of registered voters by The New York Times and Siena College.
The poll showed that the same voters who are fleeing the President - highly educated white Americans, many of them once-reliable Republicans - are providing an advantage to Democratic Senate candidates. The President's prospects are even more dire in Michigan, where the poll shows that he is losing to Mr Biden by 11 points, capturing just 36 per cent of the vote in a state he narrowly carried four years ago.
"I look to a leader of our country to be someone who is unifying, who is welcoming, who is inclusive and who I can tell my children to look up to," she said. Mr Trump, she added,"is not any of those things". Republicans have a 53-47 Senate majority. A pickup of three seats would give Democrats control, if Mr Biden wins and his vice-president is able to break a 50-50 tie. But if Mr Doug Jones of Alabama, a rare Democratic senator in the Deep South, loses his re-election in a state that Mr Trump is expected to comfortably carry, Democrats would need to net four seats to take control.
However, by aligning themselves so closely with Mr Trump, Senate Republicans now risk the same fate that could await the president without a drastic change in fortune.
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