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Democrats may have cheered Wednesday when Monmouth University released a poll with the headline “Clean debt deal preferred by 2-to-1.” President Joe Biden and his party have argued for separating budget negotiations from the debt limit, which affects borrowing to pay for spending that has already been enacted. Monmouth found that stance was preferred 51 percent to 25 percent.
The same day the poll appeared, the NRCC put out 21 news releases attacking targeted House Democrats for taking that approach, saying a CNN poll released on Tuesday showed they backed an “extreme” position. That poll was almost a mirror image of Monmouth’s, appearing to show 60 percent of the public wants budget cuts in a debt deal.
