Creating a new tax credit for family caregivers is very popular with Republican voters, and it may work better as a campaign issue for Republican candidates than for Democratic candidates.
AARP makes those points in a report on a poll it sponsored to try to build support for creating a new family caregiver tax credit.
AARP hired Tony Fabrizio, a pollster who has often worked for President Donald Trump and other Republican clients, to conduct the poll.
The survey: Fabrizio's organization conducted a national survey of 3,000 U.S. voters registered from Jan. 27 through Feb. 1. The organization also conducted a survey of 1,000 voters in 28 House "targeted districts."
In the targeted districts, a Republican won by a margin of less than 5%, or a Democrat won a House seat in a district where Trump defeated Kamala Harris in the presidential race.
The results: The survey team asked participants to rate nine tax break ideas.
A caregiver tax credit proposal placed first overall, with 84% support.
Republicans ranked eliminating income taxes on Social Security first, with 80% support. About 77% supported adding a caregiver tax credit. For the Republican survey takers, that was the second most popular tax break proposal.
Strategy: The survey team found that, in a "targeted congressional district," learning that a generic Republican candidate supported a caregiver tax credit increased the chances survey takers said they would vote for the candidate by 5 percentage points.
For a generic Democratic candidate in a targeted district, caregiver tax credit support cut the odds survey takers would vote for the candidate by 2 percentage points.
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