"Voters “want to feel the president is on their side against people they think are squeezing them,” said Evan Roth Smith, the lead pollster at the Democratic group Blueprint. “Voters have no sympathy for big companies right now,” he added."

“Biden isn’t trying to tack Left (not that there’s anything wrong with that). He wants to use some of the proceeds from raising corporate taxes to pay down the deficit. This is strategic. A recent Blueprint poll found that voters were almost as concerned about Biden increasing the deficit (63%) as they are about his age (69%).”

‘‘One of the best contrast messages that we tested was that Trump is on the side of the rich, while Biden is on the side of the working class, as evidenced by his drug price policy,” Blueprint head pollster Evan Roth Smith said.”

‘“Even though it seems sort of silly to say the president should go out and talk about agricultural subsidies to bring down food prices, voters just want to hear that he gets it and that he's doing something,’ said Blueprint lead pollster Evan Roth Smith.””

“Evan Roth Smith, a Democratic pollster for the political strategy group, Blueprint, said that showed it's possible for Democrats to paint Republicans as “unserious about border security”...“We now have proof-positive in this latest election that Republicans are out over their skis again on immigration. They don't know what to do.””

“Biden is ‘being associated in the minds of voters with his most controversial policies, rather than his most broadly supported policies,’ argued Evan Roth Smith, a campaign consultant who oversaw the Blueprint 2024 survey, adding that student debt is the ‘leading example’ of this.’’

“It tells, in our view, a lot of story about why Bidenomics is not resonating, not working to the benefit of the president,” Evan Roth Smith of Slingshot Strategies who worked on the poll told reporters. “It’s because he’s not part of the conversation that voters are having around the economy.’’

“‘When Democrats strongly associate themselves with their most popular accomplishments, they do well,’ Roth Smith said. ‘There is plenty of room for the president to be associated with very popular policies that critical voting groups, such as independents, simply aren’t aware of.’”

“This reality is affirmed by a recent Blueprint/YouGov survey, which found that 64 percent of voters consider lower prices on ‘goods, services, and gas’ to be their top priority, while only 7 percent said the same of ‘jobs.’”

“[The poll] tells a lot of the story about why Bidenomics is not resonating, and is not redounding to the benefit of the president.”

“Blueprint wants the White House to know is that ‘Bidenomics,’ as it’s currently viewed, isn’t a net positive for the president. Its polling shows voters are judging the economy on the price of goods, not whether they have good jobs.’’

“‘The president needs to go out and relentlessly target price reduction,’’ said Evan Roth Smith, lead pollster for Blueprint, a Democratic public opinion group. ‘Voters don't view him as in the fight on prices.’ ‘There's a real mismatch there,’’ said Roth Smith, whose organization recently polled Black and swing voters. ‘Voters are running are out there saying 'Prices, prices, prices, please do something about these prices.' And then they look at Joe Biden and think, ‘That guy only cares about jobs, but I have a job.’ Then that's a problem for Joe Biden.’’’

“‘The current Ukraine and Israel aid negotiations offer Biden an opportunity to positively realign voter perceptions of his immigration policy,’ Evan Roth Smith, Blueprint’s head pollster, said in a statement. ‘Self-identified Democrats and independents both support a deal by an 8-point margin. These are the voters we need to win elections, and Biden would disappoint far more of them through inaction than he’d alienate through a well-structured deal on the border and foreign aid.’’’

“‘Voters do not have a clear throughline for what Biden’s trying to do on foreign policy,’ pollster Evan Roth Smith told Semafor. ‘They don’t understand, or they don’t see any linkage, between the decisions made around Afghanistan and the decisions made around Ukraine and the decisions made around Israel.’”

“‘The president can and should take every opportunity to really tout these policies and say: ‘Yes, I am in the fight with you on prices; yes, I get the concern; yes, I am taking and have taken action. Here’s what I’ve done X, Y, and Z.’ And this stuff resonates,’ Evan Roth Smith said.”

“A new group funded by Democratic donors released polling on Wednesday suggesting that Mr. Trump is vulnerable to attacks on tax policies that favor the wealthy. The poll, by Blueprint, found that two of the top five voter concerns about the former president were the possibility that he would let rich tax cheats ‘off the hook’ and cut taxes for the wealthy but not working-class families.”

“Voters just felt a prioritization mismatch between what they were experiencing, the kind of pressures they were under, which isn’t that they didn’t have jobs, it’s that they couldn’t pay their bills,” Smith said. “Makes all the sense in the world that if the White House and president and the Biden campaign are touting this stuff, that they are going to make headway, and are making headway with voters in getting them to feel like Joe Biden in the Democratic party do understand.”