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Democrats in Moderation – Inside Higher Ed

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Democrats in tight, key races in moderate states are shying away from supporting Joe Biden’s debt cancellation and free college plans.

When they proposed last week that the next president knock $50,000 off all student loan borrowers’ debts, Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer and Senator Elizabeth Warren pitched the idea as a political winner for Democrats.

A recent poll by a progressive think tank shows that “forgiving student debt is extraordinarily popular with voters and that it enjoys broad, bipartisan support,” Schumer, of New York, and Warren, of Massachusetts, wrote in a post on the site of the group Data for Progress.

But on the campaign trail, Democrats in seven tight races that will determine control of the Senate apparently disagree. The candidates, running in moderate states, are keeping their distance from Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s two largest proposals on higher education — broadly canceling debt and making tuition free at two- and four-year public colleges — as well as Schumer and Warren’s idea.

None of the Democratic candidates, in centrist states like Colorado and Iowa, are mentioning either of Biden’s proposals on their campaign websites. Raising questions about whether Democrats would go as far as Biden on the debt relief or eliminating tuition even if they were to win a majority, the candidates in the races also will not say if they support Biden’s proposals.

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