Democrats hammer Republicans over Social Security as conservative candidates grab the 'third rail'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : President Joe Biden took a swing at Johnson on Saturday, saying on Twitter that the senator "wants Social Security and Medicare on the chopping block every year."
55% : Democrats, who like to take credit as a party for creating Social Security, have sought to drive the contrast by proposing measures to expand benefits and lift the earnings cap on payroll taxes to infuse new funding into the program.
52% : The Republican Study Committee, a large group of House conservatives, proposed a budget in June that would incrementally raise the retirement age to collect Social Security, based on changing life spans, and lower benefits over the long term by using a new formula.
51% : She described his stance as "Social Security-and."
51% : In a recent interview at his Newport Beach office, Baugh said Congress must "reform entitlements" like Social Security and Medicare to tackle unfunded liabilities and balance the budget over the long term.
50% : "Maybe we should privatize Social Security.
48% : Earlier, Johnson told a radio show that Social Security and Medicare should be axed as "mandatory" programs and be subject to "discretionary" spending, meaning Congress would have to renew them yearly or they'd end.
47% : "I do not want to privatize Social Security," he told the Arizona Republic after he won the primary.
46% : Democrats said his idea could sink Social Security.
37% : Democrats are trying to make them pay a political price, arguing that the same Republicans created a budget hole by cutting taxes for top earners.
32% : The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that Sen. Ron Johnson, a Wisconsin Republican, said at a recent campaign stop that Social Security "was set up improperly" and that it would have been better to invest the money in the stock market.
32% : "It's hard to think of something more unpopular than cutting Social Security and Medicare to pay for more tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations."
24% : "Republican plans to cut Social Security and Medicare can be lethal attacks because they drive a huge wedge in the middle of the Republican coalition," said Dan Pfeiffer, an adviser to former President Barack Obama, who ran in 2012 against the Romney-Ryan plan to partially privatize Medicare.
21% : Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell quickly disowned Scott's agenda, vowing that a potential GOP majority "would not have as part of our agenda a bill that raises taxes on half the American people and sunsets Social Security and Medicare within five years."

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