After marching in lock-step with Harry Reid and Barack Obama on the controversial nuclear deal with Iran and the president’s refusal to tighten the vetting process for potential terrorists entering the country as refugees, Catherine Cortez Masto likely wishes the national security issue would go away for a while.
Unfortunately for Cortez Masto, her foreign policy and national security weaknesses only become more and more apparent. Just days after Iran held ten American sailors at gunpoint – and just days before Iran announced its intentions to begin construction on two new nuclear power plants, new polling shows approval of President Obama’s national security agenda is plummeting:
Gallup: American Satisfaction With Security From Terrorism At Lowest Point Since Months After 9/11
Americans’ satisfaction with the nation’s security from terrorism has significantly eroded for the second year in a row, with a majority now saying they are dissatisfied. More than two-thirds, 69%, said in 2014 that they were satisfied with the nation’s security from terrorism, but that figure dropped to 59% a year ago and now has fallen to 43%…The prior low point in satisfaction with security from terrorism was 51%, measured in January 2002, four months after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. (Jim Norman, "Majority in US Now Dissatisfied With Security From Terrorism,” Gallup, 1/18/16)
Cortez Masto isn’t alone in wishing national security and foreign policy would disappear from the national landscape. Her party’s standard bearers totally glossed over the issue in this weekend’s debate.
Headline: Democrats Leave Terrorism, Foreign Policy Out Of Top Priorities:
Last week’s Republican debate started with fireworks over national security and terrorism and returned to the theme throughout the evening. But the three Democratic candidates debating tonight made no reference to those threats when asked to detail what their top three priorities would be in their first 100 days in the White House. (Nick Gass, “Democrats Leave Terrorism, Foreign Policy Out Of Top Priorities,” Politico, 1/17/16)
Unfortunately for Cortez Masto, her support for her party’s aimless approach to national security and foreign policy can’t be brushed under the rug – and that unpopular agenda will sink her with Nevada voters.