Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, the chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, told a closed-door lunch last week that if the midterms were held now, Republicans would win control of the House, Politico reported Tuesday.
Maloney (D-NY) advised the gathering that Democrats have to embrace and promote President Joe Biden
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’s agenda because it registers with swing voters.
"We are not afraid of this data ... We’re not trying to hide this," Tim Persico, executive director of the Maloney-chaired DCC, ​told Politico in an interview.
"If [Democrats] use it, we’re going to hold the House. That’s what this data tells us, but we gotta get in action," ​Persico said.
M​aloney, in an interview with NPR, said ​issues like climate change, infrastructure, the expanded child tax credits, immigration policies and election reforms will attract voters next fall.
"We’re making a bet on substance," Maloney said. "What’s the old saying — any jackass can kick down a barn, it takes a carpenter to build one. It’s harder to build it than to kick it down. And so we’re the party that’s going to build the future."