Overview
- Way to Win, which released its Sun Belt poll Wednesday, is briefing party committees and planning member briefings to push a harder economic-populist message.
- The survey of 1,282 likely voters across Arizona, Georgia, Mississippi, Nevada, North Carolina, and Texas, with extra sampling in 14 swing House districts, underpins the effort.
- The research found messages that blame the ultrarich and big corporations outperformed conventional Democratic and Republican pitches in roughly two-thirds of tested issue areas.
- Democrats face headwinds in the region, with the GOP up five points across the six states and seven points in the battleground districts, while Democrats lead only in Georgia.
- The data flags both opportunity and risk, as Trump is 17 points underwater on the economy and Democratic voters report much higher motivation to vote, yet Republican lines about stopping government fraud and overspending beat Democrats’ corruption messages.