…most of those who will decide the outcome of November’s midterm elections view the president as the representative of political extremism. Of the Democrats who responded, 70.8 percent agreed that Biden’s speech was acceptable…. Republicans reacted even more intensely in the opposite fashion, with 89.1 percent viewing the address as dangerous, and less than five percent as acceptable. Politically, however, the most significant results of the Trafalgar Group survey came from Independents, the voters in the middle who often provide the decisive votes that determine winners in congressional elections. Nearly two out of three of the Independents, 62.4 percent, agreed with the description of the President’s words as a “dangerous escalation,” with 31.2 percent saying it was acceptable campaign season language.
