Biden, who is leading in the 2020 Democratic Presidential nomination early polling, makes a very simple observation….
It IS important for his party and the 60% of Americans that do NOT like Donald Trump in the Presidency to vote to return the majority in the House and possibly in the Senate to Democrats to apply a scout tee balance against the Republicans and Trump….
Democrats hold a 6-point edge over Republicans on a generic congressional ballot, according to a poll released by The Economist/YouGov poll last week.
Democrats need to pick up 23 seats to reclaim the majority in the lower chamber. Their path in the upper chamber is a little more difficult as they need to gain two seats while defending 10 seats in states that President Trump won in 2016.
It was reported last week that Biden, who is an outspoken critic of Trump, plans to hold a series of campaign stops as the midterms near.
Among them, he is reportedly planning to campaign alongside Elissa Slotkin (D), a former Obama administration official who is running for a House seat in Michigan.
Democrats are seen as heavy favorites to take back control of the House. But despite those prospects, Trump has repeatedly pushed the idea that there will be a “red wave” in November.
“We are winning on just about every front and for that reason there will not be a Blue Wave, but there might be a Red Wave!” Trump tweeted last month.
Biden, 75, is considered a possible Democratic front-runner for the 2020 presidential election.
In a poll released last month, the former vice president led Trump by 7 points on a hypothetical 2020 ballot…..
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Nate Silver now puts House Republicans holding at 1 in 5 ……
Nate Silver: “If Labor Day is the traditional inflection point in the midterm campaign — the point when the election becomes something that’s happening right now — then Democrats should feel pretty good about where they stand in their quest to win the U.S. House.”
“Republicans are in their worst position to date in our U.S. House forecast: The Classic version of our model gives them only a 1 in 5 chance of holding onto the House. Other versions of our model are slightly more optimistic for the GOP….
Politicalwire…