In a 232-190 vote Wednesday, the House voted to restore net neutrality regulations, putting the issue front and center for voters in 2020.
"It polls in the 90s amongst millennials. It's a top-of-the-mind issue for them," Sen. Ed Markey told Politico. The Massachusetts Democrat is a lead sponsor of the companion bill in the Senate, and a longtime champion of the open internet. "So I just feel that people who vote against it vote so at their own political peril," he said. That would be every House Republican but one, and most of the Senate Republicans.
Particularly Mitch McConnell, who's declared the bill "dead on arrival" in his Senate. Whether that's his conference talking, or the big telecoms that have been bankrolling him to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars, is unclear.
But it’s going to be a major issue in 2020, no matter what McConnell says or does.