Democratic pollster Nancy Zdunkewicz said Monday that Democrats do not need to win both the House and Senate next month in order to repudiate President Trump’s first two years in office.
“There’s now this new narrative that the Senate’s going to be kept by Republicans — the Republicans might pick up a seat in the Senate or two — and I think that’s sort of what people expected given the playing field,” Zdunkewicz, managing editor at Democracy Corps, told Hill.TV’s Joe Concha on “What America’s Thinking.”
“Meanwhile, if the election were to be held today, I would still think that Democrats are going to retake the House,” she added.
Zdunkewicz cited the 2010 midterm elections, when Republicans gained 63 seats and took control of the House, as a point of comparison.
“It was this huge repudiation of President Obama because Republicans took back the House; meanwhile, the Democrats kept the Senate,” she said. “So I want to remind people that just because there’s this accident of history — that we have a not-very-favorable Senate map — that losing a seat, that not winning back the Senate doesn’t mean we have not had a reputation of Donald Trump. Just look at all of the governor’s races that Democrats are going to win.”
Her comments come as Republicans have seen an uptick in the polls in states like Tennessee and Texas where where Democrats had been hopeful they might pick up a Senate seat or two.
Republicans have attributed that bump of voter enthusiasm to the GOP’s victory in confirming Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
— Julia Manchester
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