Ostriching

By Hubie & Bertie

Last month, Liz Cheney's hair stood on end at a briefing by the National Republican Congressional Committee, when it dawned on her just how much trouble the GOP was in. (You wouldn't know this from sites like POLITICO, which relentlessly reports gloom and doom for Democrats and little on Republicans. But we digress.)

The NRCC toadies omitted a key finding from their polling on House races for 2022: that Benedict Donald's "unfavorable ratings were 15 points higher than his favorable ones in...core [battleground] districts...Nearly twice as many voters had a strongly unfavorable view of the former President as had a strongly favorable one." It was the second time, Cheney realized, that Republican pollsters had left out bad Trump results in leadership briefings.

But wait, there's more.

"The internal NRCC poll partially shared with lawmakers in April found that President Biden was perilously popular in core battleground districts, with 54 percent favorability," The Washington Post reports. "Vice President Harris was also more popular than Trump, the poll showed. Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID stimulus plan and his $2.3 trillion jobs and infrastructure package both polled higher than the former President’s favorability, which was at 41 percent, compared to 42 percent in February."

So the GOP is so cowed by Trump that they're not giving their members honest briefings on their own polls? Incredible. Now that the Post has let the cat out of the bag, will any of them break ranks? If not, what will it take? A few insurrectionist indictments? We cats HISS.