Conservative voters are willing to compromise on economic populism to beat the competition from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), according to a new poll, first obtained by The Daily Caller. .
The poll, commissioned by Consumer Action for a Strong Economy (CASE), tests a variety of messaging strategies that conservatives deploy regarding the biotechnology industry. It turns out that the Republicans’ strongest argument against tightening regulation of the biotech industry centers on defeating China.
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CASE examined 11 different arguments for conservative voters and found that the most compelling were that a stronger U.S. biotech sector would reduce reliance on Chinese manufacturing and theft of Chinese intellectual property. put the US biotechnology sector at a competitive disadvantage. 84.4% of conservatives said the former was “persuasive,” and 80.4% of the latter. In total, three of the top five most compelling arguments focused on competing with China.
Conservatives were also persuasive in their arguments about drug shortages and global economic uncertainty caused by over-reliance on foreign supply chains. (Related: Big Pharma executive: We ‘want to love the Communist Party’)
“Many free market conservatives who for too long took Republican support for granted now despair that appealing to the same voters is a lost cause. CASE co-founder Gerald Simeka wrote in a memo to be released later today alongside the poll results. “We must win Republican support by making free-market biotech solutions not just an abstraction, but relevant to Republicans’ current concerns. By re-centering , free-market conservatives will be able to win over Republican voters.”
CASE conducted the poll in partnership with Republican polling and analysis firm Cygnal. A poll of 1,000 Republicans and independents polled from June 5 to June 8 showed 3.02 percent of the vote. 17.2% of respondents describe themselves as ‘very conservative’, 32.2% as ‘extremely conservative’, 29.4% as ‘somewhat conservative’, 15.3% as moderate and 2% as liberal .
