New Senate Battleground Poll: Swing State Voters Demand Senate Action on Domestic Production of Critical Minerals Amid Energy Crisis

In a recently completed U.S. Senate swing state survey, overwhelming majorities of general election voters in Georgia, Iowa, and Ohio support expanding domestic mineral production and reducing reliance on China. They also support Senate action on the House-passed Congressional Review Act resolution, H.J. Res. 140.

The Restoring Energy Dominance (RED) Coalition, a nonprofit organization that supports President Donald J. Trump’s America First energy agenda, today released a new survey of three of the nation’s top U.S. Senate swing states showing overwhelming support for unleashing our nation’s critical minerals.

As America faces an energy crisis and the United States remains dangerously dependent on foreign suppliers for the critical minerals that power our economy, military, and national security, voters in Georgia, Iowa, and Ohio agree: we must reduce America's dependence on foreign adversaries like China for critical minerals and vastly expand domestic production.

These battleground state voters also believe H.J. Res. 140 – a Trump administration-supported bill that lifts a Biden-era mining ban – will make us less dependent on our adversaries, make energy more available and affordable, and enhance our national security. The results find that senators who support H.J. Res. 140 earn a measurable electoral boost, while those who vote no do so at their own political peril.

Key findings from the survey include:

• Across all three states, voters also share a widespread belief that domestic energy and mineral dominance is vital to our national security (89% of Georgians, 85% of Iowans, and 88% of Ohioans agree). 

• These voters are also overwhelmingly concerned about the impact our reliance on foreign countries for energy has on gas prices (85% of Georgians are concerned, 81% of Iowans, and 84% of Ohioans).

• Based on its capacity to make us less reliant on our adversaries, make energy more available and affordable, and enhance our national security, more than two-thirds of voters in each state supported H.J. Res. 140, a Congressional Review Act resolution, supported by the Trump Administration, that would reverse a Biden-era mining ban on one of the world’s largest undeveloped deposits of copper and nickel for exploration.

Read the full polling memo here.