White House Says Obstruction Will Hurt Republicans

Mike Donilon, senior adviser to President Biden, argues in a memo to White House senior staff that GOP opposition to the Covid-19 rescue package would shrink the party’s already declining national support, Axios reports.

Writes Donilon: “There seems to be a growing conventional wisdom that it is either politically smart — or, at worst, cost-free — for the GOP to adopt an obstructionist, partisan, base-politics posture. However, there is lots of evidence that the opposite is true: This approach has been quite damaging to them.”

One data point: A new Economist/YouGov poll finds a decline in voters calling themselves Republicans since November (from 42% to 37%).