Swing district polling shows majority of voters oppose Biden's $3.5 trillion spending bill

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WASHINGTON (TND) - The majority of voters in key swing districts oppose the Biden administration’s $3.5 trillion spending package, according to a new poll by American Viewpoint.

The poll showed that more than 50% of voters from three hotly-contested congressional districts in Iowa, New Jersey and Virginia oppose President Biden’s multitrillion-dollar spending package.

In Iowa’s third and New Jersey’s seventh congressional districts, where Democratic incumbents narrowly skated past their opponents during the last election, 51% of surveyed voters said they opposed the massive spending package. Only 46% said they favored it, according to the data. In Virginia’s second congressional district, which also has a high chance of flipping Republican in 2022, 52% of surveyed voters opposed the $3.5 trillion package.

The margin of error for the data was +/- 4.9% which, if accounted for, still placed Biden’s massive spending plan in the unfavorable category for each district.

Even more stark are the numbers related to whether voters in these districts feel like the Biden administration’s massive spending package will hurt working families. The poll asked survey-takers whether they agreed or disagreed on whether American’s can afford an even higher cost of living than they’re already facing following Biden’s COVID-19 relief spending.

In Iowa’s third district, 64% of survey takers agreed the nation can’t afford to increase the cost of living, such as prices for everyday items like gas and groceries, while only 35% of them disagreed. In Virginia’s second district, 60% of survey takers agreed the increase in costs would not be feasible for Americans, with 38% saying the nation could handle it. Data for New Jersey’s seventh district closely mirrored that of Virginia's second district.

American Viewpoint, the firm that conducted the poll, traditionally polls for Republicans and conservative causes.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., called the Biden administration’s multitrillion-dollar infrastructure bill and spending package “a Trojan horse.”

"They want to use this terrible pandemic as a Trojan horse for permanent socialism, and President Biden, who ran as a unifying moderate, is either powerless to stop them or does not wish to," McConnell said on the Senate floor last week.

Leader of the House Democrats, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., set a Sept. 30 deadline to vote on the package, but with a heavily-debated reconciliation bill now in the mix, some are skeptical the deadline will be met.