Steep inflation and the perception of a flagging economy continues to eat away at Democrats’ hopes to keep control of Congress in next week’s mid-term elections, with a new poll showing that one key group has turned toward the GOP.
According to a poll by the Wall Street Journal, white suburban women have shifted their support drastically in the last two months.
The group, which comprises 20% of the full electorate, has swung by 27 percentage points since the last WSJ poll in August and now favors Republicans by 15 percentage points.
“We’re talking about a collapse, if you will, in that group on the perceptions of the economy,” Republican pollster Tony Fabrizio told the Wall Street Journal.
Fabrizio teamed with Democratic pollster John Anzalone to conduct the poll.
According to the numbers, 54% of white suburban women believe America is already in a recession, up from 43% in August, and a whopping 74% believe the American economy is moving in the wrong direction, up from 59% in the last poll.
Rising prices ranked as the most pressing issue for this group of voters at 34%, followed by threats to democracy at 28%. The overturning of the Roe v. Wade precedent by the Supreme Court, which Democrats are hoping is a major motivator in their favor, only saw 16% of respondents choose it as their highest voting priority.
The poll dampens the outlook for Democrats, who built a coalition of white suburban women when they retook the House in 2018 in the middle of Donald Trump's four-year stint in the White House.
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