{"id":20296,"date":"2026-07-28T22:12:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T17:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=20296"},"modified":"2026-07-28T22:12:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T17:12:01","slug":"have-democrats-lost-their-summer-momentum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=20296","title":{"rendered":"Have Democrats Lost Their Summer Momentum?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Over the last week or so, there&#8217;s been increasing chatter about whether Democrats have lost the momentum they&#8217;ve built over the summer, giving Republicans an opportunity to hold onto their narrow majorities in Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Since late May, the Democratic lead on the generic ballot in the RealClearPolitics average has shrunk from 7.9 points to a more modest 4.9-point reading. The slippage for Democrats during the same period in the Silver Bulletin average was more modest, going from a high of 7.1 points to 6.2 points today.<\/p>\n<p>This shift in the generic ballot average coincided with the success of the progressive left in primaries across the country and the implosion of Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner&#8217;s campaign. Instead of media attention being solely focused on President Donald Trump, stories of Democratic infighting were also getting a fair share of coverage. That also helped fuel the conversations about Democratic backsliding.<\/p>\n<p>But, just as I was starting to write about this data shift, two new polls \u2014 one from Emerson College and one from Fox News \u2014 showed Democrats with significant leads<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last week or so, there&#8217;s been increasing chatter about whether Democrats have lost the momentum they&#8217;ve built over the summer, giving Republicans an opportunity to hold onto their narrow majorities in Congress. Since late May, the Democratic lead on the generic ballot in the RealClearPolitics average has shrunk from 7.9 points to a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.cookpolitical.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/og_image\/public\/2026-07\/GettyImages-2156888389.jpg?h=a5f2f23a&itok=ij1BaXN_","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-real-trending-viral-news"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}