Eric Boehlert: 70% of GOP voters support Covid relief --the entire Republican Party opposes it

[babylonsister]

70% of GOP voters support Covid relief —the entire Republican Party opposes it
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Eric Boehlert
1 hr ago


While the Beltway press continues to wring its hands over the fact that President Joe Biden likely won't get any Republican support passing the massive, $1.9 trillion Covid relief bill now being readied in Congress, journalists are missing the bigger, more important story.

Instead of framing it around how Republicans are squaring off with the new Democratic president, the story ought to be about how the GOP, so driven to block Biden wins, remains so out of touch with its own voters who overwhelmingly back the Covid bill. At a time when the press is demanding Beltway "unity," Biden is actually producing it by championing a fervently, almost historically, popular piece of legislation.

Inside the Beltway, the bill is depicted as being divisive because virtually no Republicans will support it. That in turn is putting political pressure on the new Democratic president because he promised to bring the country together; he promised to craft bipartisan compromises, according to the preferred media narrative.

The press insists that Biden's welcome call for unity following a bloody insurrection inside the U.S. Capitol last month means that any policy push by him is divisive, because Republicans oppose it. But what's so often left out of the day-to-day coverage over the political jockeying surrounding the Covid bill is that the Republican Party remains out of step with its own voters, and it's Biden who has the pulse of the nation.

As is custom with the D.C. media, the entire onus of bipartisanship is placed on Democrats, who are responsible for breaking the Capitol fever, which is fueled by obstructionist Republicans. The GOP today is committed to uniformly opposing Biden, just as it was committed to opposing President Barack Obama. That's the real story of Covid relief politics, and how Republicans will soon have to go on the record opposing a bill that's overwhelmingly popular, even among Republican voters.

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[ProudMNDemocrat]

1. There's your first clue. Sherlock.

Even Republican votets are hurting.

[sop]

2. 70% of rank and file Republican voters support Covid relief, but what percentage of GOP corporate

donors oppose it? Those are the only constituents Congressional Republicans represent.

[babylonsister]

5. Why would corporate donors oppose it?

What's not to like about covid relief, other than Biden accomplishing it?

[sop]

6. Biden's success alone would be enough for the GOP to oppose his $1.9T Covid relief plan,

but I suspect they also oppose provisions like extending eviction and foreclosure moratoriums, expanding unemployment benefits for hard-hit workers, activating the Defense Production Act or anything else that might cost them money.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

3. Joe didn't say he'd unify the Legislative branch; he said he wanted to unify America. Gettin' there.

[Tommymac]

4. The 1% oppose it so the 99% must suffer once again.

Busine$$ as usual.

Funny how the MSM in DC is represented in government - but the PEOPLE of DC are left out in the cold.

[onecaliberal]

7. The media's breathless insistence that the GOP will not vote for it only helps Joe and Dems.

The Q party has abandoned all levels of responsibility for governing. There are Americans freezing to death tonight and their state government is essentially missing in action.

[HelpImSurrounded]

8. The GOP will just blame the Dems...

The Right Wing Noise machine will repeat the lie over and over and boom

GOP voters once again vote against their own best interests.