Happy Election Day eve. This is Daniel Allott with The Hill’s Top Opinions.
Election Day is hours away, and Republicans are poised to flip both houses of Congress and capture several key governorships, writes political adviser and consultant Douglas E. Schoen.
“But just how substantial will the Republican Party’s victory be?” he asks.
Delving into the polling data, Schoen concludes that “a Republican landslide is not out of the question.”
Momentum is clearly on Republicans’ side. Schoen notes that in the closing weeks of the campaign, Republicans have even made up substantial ground in “contests in which extreme, far-right GOP candidates are challenging Democratic incumbents in states that Joe Biden won…as well as in Democratic strongholds.”
Schoen, who served as an adviser to President Clinton, is left asking: “What does it say about the incumbent party when the voters who elected them just two years prior now prefer candidates who lack experience, who deny the results of the 2020 election, and who hold fundamentally backward views on social issues like abortion?”
Schoen’s answer, backed by polling data, is “that the Democratic Party’s brand has become increasingly toxic and untenable.”
This is the hard political truth Democrats will have to contend with in the coming weeks and months.
Read Schoen’s column here.
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