Reelection race for House Democrats’ campaign chief now a ‘toss-up’
A battle between Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz — a Florida Democrat who could help President Trump flip the seat — and Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s lieutenant governor is now a toss-up.
A battle between Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz — a Florida Democrat who could help President Trump flip the seat — and Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s lieutenant governor is now a toss-up.
In a new poll, however, both Democrats and Republicans see the race as a toss-up.
The nonpartisan NBC News/Wall Street Journal survey showed the race between two Democratic candidates to succeed Wasserman Schultz as chair of the Democratic National Committee has become a toss-up.
The top Democrat in the race is former DCCC chief Richard Javits, a New York City Council member, who would replace Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) as chair of the party’s national convention next July. Javits currently leads in the polls among voters who intend to vote in the midterm election.
Cuomo, meanwhile, is in a tough reelection bid on his home turf of New York, where three of his four years in office were up for reelection.
The NBC/WSJ survey showed Cuomo’s lieutenant governor, Cynthia Nixon, the best-funded Democratic opponent, with a 10-point lead over Cuomo in the race for the 2018 governor’s mansion.
The poll also showed that Cuomo, who took control of the party’s infrastructure from Wasserman Schultz in the wake of Trump’s surprise White House victory, enjoys support across the party, which is deeply divided over whether Trump should even be the party’s chief executive. More than half of Democrats (58 percent) and more than seven in 10 Republicans (71 percent) say Trump should not be the party’s nominee.
The poll, conducted from Sept. 22-24, found that two-thirds of Democrats (64 percent) and about four in 10 (40