Jen Psaki is the former White House press secretary for President Biden, and she left to work as a correspondent for MSNBC. On Tuesday she expressed shock that there were Democrats who will vote for candidates who questioned the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.
Psaki tweeted about the latest New York Times/Siena College poll and started her post with “Holy Moly.”
“Holy moly siena/NYT poll ‘more than a third of independent voters and a smaller but noteworthy contingent of Democrats said they were open to supporting candidates who reject the legitimacy of the 2020 election…’ as they focus on economic issues,” she tweeted.
The NY Times/Siena poll revealed that 40% of registered voters are open to supporting candidates who questioned the outcome of the 2020 election results. When you break that down according to demographic lines, it means that 71% of GOP voters were open to supporting these candidates, 37% of Independent voters and 12% of Democratic voters believed they were open to supporting such candidates.
The poll also discovered that 71% of registered voters think that American democracy is “under threat,” and 21% of the same voters do not.
Therefore, the poll suggests that U.S. voters are believing the Democratic rhetoric that declares Republicans are the ones threatening American Democracy. The irony is that when it all comes down to voting, people are apathetic to the alleged threat and it does not seem that they believe questioning the outcome of the election is a real threat to their democracy.
The bottom line is that voters care most about other issues like inflation, the economy, and crime.
“I don’t believe that their opinion on whether or not the election was quote unquote stolen is important. … I’m far more concerned about their stance on policies that actually matter,” one independent voter told the Times.
Apparently, that sentiment surprised Psaki, I don’t know why.
Holy moly siena/NYT poll “more than a third of independent voters and a smaller but noteworthy contingent of Democrats said they were open to supporting candidates who reject the legitimacy of the 2020 election…” as they focus on economic issues
— Jen Psaki (@jrpsaki) October 18, 2022
