With the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill passed by the House on Wednesday and headed to President Biden’s desk, the legislative battle over the massive measure is ending — but the PR and political fights are only beginning.
And the package, the first major legislation success in Biden’s short tenure so far in the White House, will likely be a defining factor in next year’s midterm elections, which will be a referendum on Biden’s first two years in office.
WHAT’S IN THE MASSIVE COVID RELIEF PACKAGE?
Biden’s planning a media blitz to sell the measure to the American public, with his rollout starting Thursday night when the president gives his first speech in prime time, where he’ll mark the year since the coronavirus pandemic swept the country and spotlight the lifeline his COVID relief will provide to the nation.
Democrats, who hope to hold onto their control of the House and increase their razor-thin majority in the Senate in the 2022 midterms, plan to showcase the bill in the months ahead.
“We are going to be campaigning on this legislation,” Sen. Gary Peters told reporters on Monday. The chair of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, the re-election arm of Senate Democrats, emphasized that “we are going to show meaningful results for people in need.”
Republicans are taking aim at the package as a liberal wish list and a “blue state bailout” that is chocked full of unnecessary spending that’s not directly related to the pandemic. Their messaging is already underway.
As Fox News first reported on Sunday, the independent non-profit conservative advocacy group, American Action Network, has already placed ads in 11 congressional districts now held by House Democrats targeting the COVID package. The spots slam the legislation as House Speaker “Nancy Pelosi’s liberal stimulus.”
PRO-GOP GROUP TAKES AIM AT HOUSE DEMOCRATS OVER COVID RELIEF BILL
Veteran Republican pollster Tony Fabrizio tells Fox News that when it comes to the political impact of the…
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