{"id":19293,"date":"2024-05-19T12:47:26","date_gmt":"2024-05-19T12:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/19\/balance-of-power-vulnerable-dems-look-to-differentiate-themselves-from-unpopular-biden\/"},"modified":"2024-05-19T12:47:26","modified_gmt":"2024-05-19T12:47:26","slug":"balance-of-power-vulnerable-dems-look-to-differentiate-themselves-from-unpopular-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/19\/balance-of-power-vulnerable-dems-look-to-differentiate-themselves-from-unpopular-biden\/","title":{"rendered":"Balance of power: Vulnerable Dems look to differentiate themselves from unpopular Biden"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Some of the most vulnerable Democratic Senate incumbents up for re-election in November have looked to highlight their disagreements with President Biden ahead of the pivotal matchups.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201dDistancing\u2019 from a party brand is a time-honored tradition in Congress,\u2019 explained Jacob Neiheisel, associate professor of political science at the State University of New York at Buffalo.<\/p>\n

Sens. Jon Tester, D-Mont.; Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio; Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis.; Jacky Rosen, D-Nev.; and Bob Casey, D-Pa., are embroiled in the most competitive races of the 2024 cycle, with the Democrats up against one of the toughest re-election maps in years.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018They\u2019re going to sound like MAGA Republicans in their TV ads before it\u2019s all over with,\u2019 said Republican strategist Scott Jennings.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Last week, Tester came out in favor of a largely Republican-supported illegal immigration measure named after slain Georgia college student Laken Riley. He previously voted against moving forward with the bill, which takes aim at illegal immigrants like the one charged with Riley\u2019s murder, as a potential amendment to a larger bill package. However, Tester did signal at the time he would support it if it came to the floor as a stand-alone bill, despite the unlikelihood of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. allowing that to happen.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Tester\u2019s office vehemently pushed back on previous claims that he was against the bill. \u2018Claims from Mitch McConnell-backed groups that Senator Tester changed his position on the Laken Riley Act are patently false and another desperate attempt to politicize the border instead of fixing it,\u2019 his office told Fox News Digital.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Montana senator isn\u2019t the only one to make his differences with Biden clear in the lead-up to the election.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Rosen, who represents the critical swing state of Nevada, also diverged with Biden publicly on multiple occasions. In particular, Rosen is partially credited with killing the Biden administration\u2019s hopes of confirming the first Muslim federal appellate judge in Adeel Mangi. The Nevada senator came out against the controversial Biden nominee, citing his ties with an allegedly anti-law enforcement organization.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018This is what they do,\u2019 Jennings said. \u2018They spend five and a half years supporting Democrats and Democratic policies that everyone in their state hates. And then they spend six months pretending it never happened.\u2019<\/p>\n

The Republican strategist added, though, that they may be hard-pressed to convince voters of their differences with the president, given that they vote in line with him nearly all the time.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In 2023, Tester voted with Biden the second least among other Democratic senators. However, he still aligned with the president 94.6% of the time, according to FiveThirtyEight\u2019s analysis. Brown voted with Biden 97.9% of the time, Rosen 98.6%, and Baldwin and Casey each 99.3%.<\/p>\n

\u2018Jon Tester does what\u2019s right for Montana. President Trump signed more than 20 of his bills into law, and over the years Jon has stood up to President Biden on many issues \u2014 from securing the border to protecting Montana from burdensome energy regulations,\u2019 said Monica Robinson, a spokesperson for Montanans for Tester.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Matt Keyes, spokesperson for Friends of Sherrod Brown, argued similar motivations for the senator in Ohio. \u2018He has stood up to presidents of both parties to oppose bad trade deals, worked with Republicans to make sure border patrol agents and law enforcement officers have the resources they need, and demanded that the Biden administration crack down on Chinese-made electric vehicles,\u2019 Keyes said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to Paul Beck, a political science professor at the Ohio State University, \u2018Biden is unpopular here in Ohio, and to win Brown will have to poll considerably better than Biden will.\u2019<\/p>\n

Further,\u00a0he noted that any moves from Brown to support Republican efforts can only help him. \u2018He will not pay a penalty for supporting a Republican bill, and it may allow him to demonstrate his independence,\u2019 Beck said.<\/p>\n

\u2018Tammy Baldwin has stood up to Presidents Trump and Biden on behalf of Wisconsin workers,\u2019 said Tammy Baldwin for Senate spokesman Andrew Mamo in a statement, echoing the same sentiment. \u2018Wisconsinites trust her because no matter who is in the White House, she fights for them.\u2019<\/p>\n

Per Johanna Warshaw, Rosen for Nevada spokesperson, \u2018Jacky Rosen has worked to get things done in a bipartisan way and has never been afraid to disagree with her party leaders to do what\u2019s right for Nevada.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018Bob Casey is consistently ranked among the most effective and bipartisan senators in Washington and has worked across the aisle to create jobs and lower costs,\u2019 Maddy McDaniel, spokesperson for Bob Casey for Senate, said in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n

National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) Communications Director Mike Berg told Fox News Digital, \u2018These Democrats are running against everything they voted for now that Joe Biden\u2019s poll numbers have taken a hit,\u2019 calling it \u2018very bizarre.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

Jennings predicted the senators would continue to make efforts to demonstrate their differences with the president, especially with his historically low approval.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Biden has maintained an average approval rating of 38.7%, Gallup revealed last month. This is historically low, with each of the last nine presidents going back to Dwight Eisenhower boasting higher averages at the same point.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A Biden campaign spokesperson pointed to the president\u2019s accomplishments, saying in a statement, \u2018Joe Biden created 15 million jobs, capped the price of insulin at $35, and made health care more affordable than ever.\u2019<\/p>\n

The spokesperson emphasized that \u2018Democrats across the country will be running on\u2019 Biden\u2019s \u2018record of historic results for the American people.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018Republicans\u2019 MAGA agenda is toxic with voters, as we saw with their failed red wave in 2022 and strong, Democratic overperformance wins in the NY special election and Kentucky gubernatorial,\u2019 they added.\u00a0<\/p>\n

While the senators are using a strategy that has been relied on historically, not everyone is sure it will continue to work. \u2018As politics continues to nationalize in the U.S., I\u2019m not sure if voters in those states are going to be able to separate the individual from the party,\u2019 said Neiheisel.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Republican strategist Zack Roday, a partner at Ascent Media, claimed the vulnerable Democrats\u2019 positioning ahead of the elections is \u2018nonsense.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018These Senate Democrats are a safe vote for Biden every time,\u2019 he emphasized.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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