Coming off a historic run of speakerless weeks in the House, congressional Republicans are getting gutted by voters in this month's Daily Kos/Civiqs survey of the political landscape.
Congressional Republicans are currently 60 percentage points underwater, with just 12% of registered voters approving of the way they are handling their jobs, while 72% disapprove.
Congressional Republican Job Approval
- Approve: 12%
- Disapprove: 72%
- Neither: 16%
Another telling data point: Only 27% of Republican voters approve of how congressional Republicans are doing their jobs. But Democrats fare much better with voters despite being 26 points underwater, 32% approve to 55% disapprove.
Congressional Democrat Job Approval
- Approve: 32%
- Disapprove: 55%
- Neither: 12%
Democrats also tested 6 points better on which party voters trusted to govern effectively:
- Democrats: 43%
- Republicans: 37%
- Neither: 19%
- Unsure: 2%
On the question of which party is more trusted to tell Americans the truth, just 26% of voters trusted Republicans. Democrats bested Republicans by 11 points on the measure, but notably, roughly a third of voters trust neither party.
- Democrats: 37%
- Republicans: 26%
- Neither: 34%
- Unsure: 2%
On two of the most critical issues where voters have historically proven to have a pro-Republican bias—the economy and national security—Republicans notched a slim several-point edge. Republicans bested Democrats on whom voters trusted more to handle national security, by just 2 points: 40% Democrats, 42% Republicans (with 16% choosing neither).
And on the economy, voters preferred Republicans by 3 points in the poll: 40% Democrats, 43% Republicans (with 15% choosing neither). Which party is best suited to handle the economy is a question Civiqs began tracking earlier this year.
The tracking and polling results are similar, with Democrats at 40% in both, while Republicans, at 38% in tracking, shed a handful of points from the poll to the "neither" category in the tracking. Bottom line: Democrats are competitive on the economy in these surveys, which is a hopeful sign.
But the biggest takeaway by far is the dreadful condition of the Republican Party brand overall. In Civiqs tracking, GOP favorables are at their lowest point since 2017, 40 points underwater—a measure that was not helped by the three-week spectacle of House Republicans' speakerless inferno.
Republished with permission from Daily Kos.
