Yikes! DCCC internal poll shows 'House Dems may be in worse political peril than they've let on publicly'

Doug P. | 11:20 AM on May 18, 2022

President Biden and the Democrats have been blaming all problems on Putin, the pandemic and the lack of a Republican plan to bring down inflation, and nobody’s been buying it. That brought with it a shift to warnings about voting for “ultra MAGA” in the November midterms, and there’s a reason for all that Democrat desperation. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has been doing some internal polling that shows a strong likelihood that the Dems will soon lose the House in epic fashion:

AM:

THE DCCC IS A MESS
— ⁦dccc chair @RepSeanMaloney⁩ is in a primary and democrats are furious
— battleground democrats are down 8 in a generic ballot test and House r polling is worse for Dems

⁦@PunchbowlNews⁩ https://t.co/oMgtsrLqmg

— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) May 18, 2022

DCCC internal poll – House Dems are getting crushed in Battleground Districts

2022 Generic Ballot:Battleground Districts
Republicans 47% (+8)
Democrats 39%

CLF also polled 16 Biden +8 districts and the generic ballot is tiedhttps://t.co/SdEfWJrtru

— InteractivePolls (@IAPolls2022) May 18, 2022

There’s only one way to describe it:

Disarray? pic.twitter.com/b7tTM28kAl

— Abigail Marone 🇺🇸 (@abigailmarone) May 18, 2022

This certainly has the Democrats concerned, but obviously not enough to keep them from doubling down on the things that are turning off voters:

House Democrats may be in worse political peril than they’ve let on publicly.

During a Thursday luncheon last week with DCCC Chair Sean Patrick Maloney, Frontline Democrats – the party’s most endangered lawmakers – were told that, in battleground districts, the generic Republican is beating the generic Democrat, 47-39, according to lawmakers, multiple party officials and the DCCC.

This is a stunning margin and highlights the incredibly perilous position Democrats find themselves in.

Given that Democrats generally have a three- or four-point built in advantage on the generic ballot, this is a particularly concerning development for Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s majority. An eight-point deficit on the generic ballot could be a sign of a wave for House Republicans.