The moves pose a threat to the party’s efforts to reclaim moderate, largely college-educated voters whom were turned off by Trump, while muddying the party’s efforts to shift the national focus to the less popular parts of Democratic policies. They also mark a continued repudiation of the orthodoxy that last restored Republicans to power and governed the party for two generations. Republican leaders have been alarmed by GOP-leaning voters moving away from the traditional conservative political conversation. Some have even shown their early support for parts of Biden’s policy agenda, including another round of government checks for voters, which Trump also supported, and plans for a massive infrastructure spending bill paid for with tax increases... Democrats are skeptical that Republicans will be able to make the case without Trump on the ballot, especially since Biden has focused his communications around the economy on winning support from working people. They point to polls that have long affiliated Republicans with the interests of the wealthy and big companies and the party’s broader refusal to raise taxes on upper income Americans. “A Republican pivot won’t change those perceptions after decades of their party pushing and passing tax policy in the opposite direction,” said Nick Gourevitch, a Democratic pollster at Global Strategy Group who has been advising Democrats on midterm messaging.