WASHINGTON — Democrats seeking to sell President Joe Biden’s expansive economic agenda to the public are running into a persistent problem: voters who are deliberately tuning out politics.
Americans are typically not highly engaged with politics in the summer of a non-election year. But Democratic operatives say that levels of engagement with key members of their coalition are even lower than usual at this point, still exhausted after former President Donald Trump’s chaotic tenure and disheartened by enduring political divisiveness.
It’s a dynamic that Democrats say has made it difficult for their messages on Biden’s signature policies — including the pandemic relief, infrastructure and budget packages — to break through as they try to lay the groundwork ahead of a challenging midterm election cycle.
