Memo: Voters Support the THRIVE Agenda
By Danielle Deiseroth, Marcela Mulholland, and Julian Brave NoiseCat
Executive Summary
A majority of voters in the swing states of Ohio, Texas, Georgia, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Florida, North Carolina, Arizona, Colorado, Michigan, and Minnesota support each of the THRIVE Agenda’s pillars.
A majority of voters in forty House battleground districts across the country support each of the THRIVE Agenda’s pillars.
A majority of Democrats and independents in these battleground districts support the THRIVE Agenda’s pillars.
Momentum is building for an economic recovery plan that creates good jobs, counteracts racial injustice, supports public health, and tackles the climate crisis. In July, former Vice President Joe Biden released a “Build Back Better” agenda to meet these goals via detailed plans for infrastructure, manufacturing, clean energy, the care economy, and racial equity, which included strong input from the Unity Task Force convened with surrogates and supporters of Bernie Sanders presidential campaign. Data for Progress also provided research to inform the campaign and task force’s work. Just last week, Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey, co-author of the Green New Deal resolution, whose goals align with those in the THRIVE Agenda, claimed a decisive victory against his primary challenger, Representative Joe Kennedy (MA-04).
