President Biden’s most ambitious legislative proposal so far – the $2 trillion American Jobs Plan – appears to enjoy a plurality of support even in the Republican-leaning 3rd congressional district of Tennessee.
Nearly half of the 400 voters surveyed in the East Tennessee district say they support Biden’s infrastructure plan even when the Democratic president’s name is attached to the proposal. The survey by the public opinion research company Global Strategy Group showed voters in the 3rd district favor Biden’s American Jobs Plan by a 48-44 percent plurality.
Among those surveyed, 86% think fixing America’s highways, roads and bridges and upgrading airports, ports and public transportation systems” is a personal priority” to them and about two thirds say investing in public schools and broadband is important to them.
Younger voters who have generally been harder hit by the coronavirus pandemic are even more supportive of the Biden plan with 58% of those under age 45 years old saying they support the president’s overall proposal, compared with only 32% who said they are against the plan.
In the November 2020 election, Donald Trump received nearly twice as many votes as Joe Biden in the presidential contest in the 3rd district of Tennessee and U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann, R-Ooltewah, captured more than two thirds of the district’s votes