Is it because Trump is so unpopular?
Democrats running for the Senate in “blue wall” states that will be critical to determining the outcome of the 2024 election are running away from Vice President Harris, signaling that they are hoping to win over some of former President Trump’s voters to keep their seats.
“There’s no party affiliation in Casey ads. I don’t recall seeing any that say ‘Democrat’ or anything like that. He’s running as an incumbent on his own record,” said Berwood Yost, the director of the Center for Public Opinion Research at Franklin & Marshall College.
“He’s trying to distance himself a little bit from an administration that is viewed negatively by the most part. He doesn’t want to be tied to that either through Biden or Harris,” he said.
In Wisconsin, endangered incumbent Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D) ignored President Biden and Harris, and made only a passing reference to Trump, in her one and only debate appearance Friday.
Baldwin has also taken a more populist stance on tariffs. In May, she called on the Biden administration to keep in place the Section 301 tariffs that Trump imposed on Chinese imports in 2018.
Democrats running for the Senate in “blue wall” states that will be critical to determining the outcome of the 2024 election are running away from Vice President Harris, signaling that they are hoping to win over some of former President Trump’s voters to keep their seats.
“There’s no party affiliation in Casey ads. I don’t recall seeing any that say ‘Democrat’ or anything like that. He’s running as an incumbent on his own record,” said Berwood Yost, the director of the Center for Public Opinion Research at Franklin & Marshall College.
“He’s trying to distance himself a little bit from an administration that is viewed negatively by the most part. He doesn’t want to be tied to that either through Biden or Harris,” he said.
In Wisconsin, endangered incumbent Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D) ignored President Biden and Harris, and made only a passing reference to Trump, in her one and only debate appearance Friday.
Baldwin has also taken a more populist stance on tariffs. In May, she called on the Biden administration to keep in place the Section 301 tariffs that Trump imposed on Chinese imports in 2018.
