Thanks to Trump and congressional Republicans’ health care madness, key battleground voters are sitting around their kitchen tables watching their bills pile up and their household budgets get blown apart. New Navigator polling reveals how voters in key battleground districts are faring — and the numbers are brutal for Republicans’ midterm brackets. A staggering majority say health care and overall costs have gone up a lot. A wide majority say Congress can “do a great deal to lower health care costs” and voters trust Democrats — not Republicans — to deliver this mandate. And a wide majority say life is less affordable than it was a year ago. All the incoming data from battleground districts reflect one simple truth: the American people won’t let Trump and Republicans off the hook for jacking up their health premiums, shuttering hospitals, and enriching price-gouging big drug companies — all to pad the pockets of their billionaire and corporate donors.
Key Insights From the Battleground:
Of the Battleground Voters Polled:
80% say health care is less affordable than it was last year — and 57% say health care costs have gone up a lot.
74% say Congress can do “a great deal” to lower health care costs — and voters trust Democrats more than Republicans to deliver affordable health care and prescription drug prices.
75% say life is less affordable than it was last year — including 53% who say costs in general have gone up a lot.
61% view congressional Republicans negatively (an all-time low favorability rating), 57% believe congressional Republicans have prioritized the wrong things, and 46% say congressional Republican policies have made life less affordable.
A majority have an unfavorable view of the big, ugly bill — and 49% and 42% say ending ACA tax credits and gutting Medicaid, respectively, have caused costs to go up a lot.
Battleground Voters Say Health Care Is Republicans’ Greatest Vulnerability:
76% — including 80% of independents — say they could not support an elected official who “voted to cut SNAP and Medicaid in order to give new tax breaks to the rich and big corporations.” This is the single most disqualifying position tested.
70% — including 63% of independents and non-MAGA Republicans — say they are concerned that “Trump cut programs people depend on, like Medicaid and SNAP, to pay for tax cuts for billionaires and big corporations” — the top concern tested.
