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Trump is finally out. But while we’re all taking a huge sigh of relief, we’re also hitting the ground running.

The first few months of the Biden presidency are progressives’ best window of opportunity to push for ambitious policy. Last year, we polled the “Day One agenda” ([link removed]) to highlight executive orders the president can enact immediately. Now, we’re showing the new administration that it can build voter support by pushing for universal pre-K, creating manufacturing jobs (particularly in clean energy), a health insurance public option, and a $3,000 child allowance. Our polling finds ([link removed]) that clear majorities support using deficit spending to finance each.

Support also extends across partisan lines — each of these items is favored by a majority of Independent voters and at least 45 percent of Republicans.

Climate is perhaps the most exciting window of opportunity for the Biden administration — it’s both a highly-urgent issue and a clear political winner. In a new blog yesterday ([link removed]) , we call for the Biden admin to create a Civilian Climate Corps in its first 100 days — providing unionized, living-wage jobs that rebuild our economy, empower communities of color, and address the climate crisis.

Here are some other highlights from DFP this week:
* How do Americans describe the rioters at the Capitol? We collected hundreds of open-ended responses, and here’s what we found:
The most common word by far was “terrorists.” One in ten respondents used the word without prompting — so much so that it was the most common word cited by both Biden voters and non-voters/third party voters.
What was the top word for Trump voters? “Antifa.” But “terrorists,” “criminals,” and “idiots” also showed up in Trump voters’ top ten. That attests to just how upsetting most Americans found the attack on the Capitol building.
Read our writeup here ([link removed]) , and scroll through the responses yourself here ([link removed]) .

* Rep. Jamaal Bowman is just beginning his tenure, and he’s already making a huge impact: he’s introduced the COUP Act to create a commission to investigate the deadly insurrection at the Capitol and to prevent future attacks. We released polling ([link removed]) showing that not only do most Democrats support Bowman's act (76 percent), but most Independents (59 percent) and Republicans (61 percent) do as well.

* There’s a lot going on in the news, but we can’t lose sight of the fact that a lethal pandemic is still surging across the country. The 40th wave of our coronavirus tracking poll ([link removed]) gave us some unsettling findings: about 30 percent of Americans know someone who has been hospitalized with the coronavirus and about 20 percent know someone who’s died from it.

* Another thing we can’t lose sight of is the horror caused by our broken healthcare system. Our polling with The Appeal ([link removed]) finds that 19 percent of Americans have foregone necessary healthcare because of cost, while an additional 32 percent have delayed (but not foregone) healthcare due to cost.

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Media Hits
* DFP co-founder Sean McElwee spoke with Rolling Stone ([link removed]) about the “90 issues” that Biden can pursue that have near-unanimous support among both voters and the Democratic Party. These include capping interest rates on payday loans, Medicaid expansion, expanding the child tax credit, and free two-year public college.

* Many climate priorities will need to be jammed through budget reconciliation to bypass the 60 vote requirement of the filibuster. Bloomberg covered our efforts ([link removed]) with Dr. Leah Stokes, Evergreen Action, and others to find strategies for attaining a clean-electricity standard through reconciliation.

* Time used our polling ([link removed]) to show how distrust from Republican voters of the 2020 election results helped fuel Republican officials’ backing of the insurrection at the Capitol.

* Vox used that same poll ([link removed]) to highlight the dangers of so many Republican voters buying into Trump’s alternate reality.

* The American Prospect covered our polling ([link removed]) showing that stocking Biden’s Cabinet with corporate executives and lobbyists is highly unpopular.

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From the Blog
Voters Support Massive Deficit Financed Investments In The Economy ([link removed])
DFP Coronavirus Response Tracking Poll Week 40 ([link removed])
Americans Want a National Commission to Investigate the Insurrection the Capitol ([link removed])
Americans Are Disgusted With the People Who Stormed the Capitol ([link removed])
60 Percent of Wisconsin Voters Support Replacing Senator Ron Johnson ([link removed])
Developing a Pro-Worker Civilian Climate Corps ([link removed])

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