https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/04\/21\/senate-democrats-midterm-election-biden-00026781<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“Acutely aware of the need to get distance from the president, the four most endangered Democratic incumbents \u2014 Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly, Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock, Nevada Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto and New Hampshire Sen. Maggie Hassan \u2014 are increasingly taking steps to highlight their independence from the president and underscore their differences.<\/p>\n
Their public pushback against Biden\u2019s plan to lift the Trump-era border restriction known as Title 42 is the most visible expression of the effort to get distance from the president. But the four Democrats are also finding other ways of signaling to voters. They\u2019ve visited the border wall and blocked his nominees. A month before a Trump-appointed judge struck down Biden\u2019s mask mandate on mass transit, three of the four voted in favor of a Republican bill to do just that.<\/p>\n
On social media, where they shy away from praise of the president and instead focus on their efforts to prod the White House to action, it\u2019s hard to tell they\u2019ve voted in line with Biden no less than 96 percent of the time.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn these four states, these are senators just doing the work, keeping their head down, getting things done for their states while the Republicans are obviously tearing each other apart in these primaries,\u201d said Martha McKenna, a Democratic ad maker who previously worked for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey are not people who go looking for conflict, they\u2019re not grandstanders. They\u2019re hard working senators willing to say, \u2018Yes, I agree with Biden on child tax credits or health care, but look, I\u2019ve got an issue on this issue, or that issue.\u2019\u201d”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[988,198,780,751,865],"class_list":["post-7871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-democratic-party","tag-elections","tag-joe-biden","tag-polls","tag-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7872,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7871\/revisions\/7872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}