Posted on 05/15/2025 6:48:37 PM PDT by Red Badger
NewsNation political contributor Chris Cillizza said Thursday that fresh polling data paints a dire picture for the Democratic Party.
Just roughly one-third of Democrats said they were “very optimistic” or “somewhat optimistic” regarding the future of their own party, according to a Wednesday poll conducted by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. Cillizza said on his YouTube channel that this survey, alongside another poll, underscores how damaged the party has become.
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“The extent to which Democrats, Democrats think the Democratic brand is broken is pretty stunning to me, and we have a bunch of new polling data out lately that I want to go through that kind of explains where the Democratic Party is … the Democratic Party is in worse shape today, both in terms of how it’s viewed by the general electorate but also how Democrats feel about it, than at any time that I can remember in my covering of politics, which is now — because I’m old — almost three decades,” Cillizza said.
Cillizza walked through the AP poll’s numbers, noting the dramatic drop in Democrats’ optimism since July 2024, when the party was transitioning from former President Joe Biden to former Vice President Kamala Harris as its presidential nominee following Biden’s disastrous June debate against President Donald Trump.
“Maybe you get a little of the excitement of switching from Biden to Harris in those numbers,” he said. “But six in ten Democrats, even in that moment — which was chaotic at a minimum — even in that moment said they were somewhat or very optimistic about the future of the party. Today it is one in three.”
He also emphasized the stark contrast with Republican voters. The majority of Republicans, 55%, said they felt “very” or “somewhat” optimistic regarding their party’s future in the survey.
Cillizza then turned to a Tuesday Puck/Echelon poll, where Puck directed Echelon Insights to ask voters: “What is the first word that comes to mind when you think of the Democratic Party?”
Among all likely voters, the most common answers were “liberal, weak, corrupt.” Among Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters, the most common answer was “weak.”
“So ‘weak’ was the number one word that Democrats associated with their party. And ‘ineffective’ was right there as well. So: liberal, weak, corrupt for the general electorate, and weak and ineffective for the just-Democratic sample,” Cillizza said. “I find that — I guess not surprising, because we’ve had the Democratic brand in a place since Donald Trump won in 2024 that I’ve not seen before. In worse shape in terms of how people view it than I’ve ever seen before. I’ve talked to pollsters who said they’ve sat in focus groups, and the words that keep coming up are ‘weak’ and ‘woke.’ So that ‘weak’ word keeps coming up.”
“And I think that is sort of a big problem for the Democratic Party. You can’t be viewed as weak. You know, Donald Trump’s great strength — even for people who don’t agree with him — is he’s viewed as a fighter and tough. Now, we can debate whether he is a fighter and tough, but that’s how he’s viewed,” he continued. “And Democrats right now — even among themselves — see themselves as weak and ineffective. And I just think that’s incredibly telling and problematic for a party … these numbers and those words, even for me, who kind of knew that the Democratic brand was not in good shape, were pretty, pretty shocking.”
“because I’m old — almost three decades,” Cillizza said”
Can he count and do Math?
49 is almost FIVE decades.
Simple solution!
* More homo and “pride”
* More trans
* Wide open borders
* More MS-13 and TdA neighbors killing and raping
* More high priced, unreliable and dirty “green” energy
* Eternal “green” subsidies
* More men beating up women on sports fields
* More men in young girls locker rooms and bathrooms
* More globalization and offshoring of jobs
* More Dems in Congress throwing temper tantrums, saying “Hell to pay,” shrieking, and threatening SCOTUS.
* More assassination attempts.
Do I need to do ALL the strategy work for you Dems? Sheesh!
When I think of DemocRATS, I think of low life, bottom dwelling pieces of shit.
Their voters are socialists.
I’m still waiting for the Dems to declare some kind of internal crisis. Some kind of internal revolt that requires scrapping of whatever democrat documents exist that specify internal party structure, values, goals, agenda, mission. After which a new “improved” party with new rules will rise from the ashes and the new party leader will formally apologize for the ruinous policies of the previous “old” democrat party. I believe that scenario is coming. It has to. Because the current dem party looks to be on its way to being outlawed. —Just my $.02
You’re being kind,we believe they are communists.
Man, I’ma rootin for the Dems. They are on a good path with with AOC, Ilhan, and the Great Fat One. Yea, don’t discourage them one bit. And the Pubs better get off their asses and support Trump. Trump loves America and Americans.
This is a situation they created themselves with their stupid rules and DEI-WOKE policies.
The basically kicked out any conservative, religious and moral Democrats and raised up full left wing socialists to be their leaders.
Now, the young ones want to take over and turn the party into a full communist organization. They will win, of course, and finish purging anybody that doesn’t accept 110% of their platform.
What will happen, unless they can figure out a way to halt the progressives, is a split into a more moderate party and the full left wing party.
They did it to themselves...................
Yep. Thus my tagline.
You really have to give it to Bernie Sanders as well. He is probably the most successful parasite that has ever lived.
I think he meant almost three decades following politics. Started in his 20s, coming up on 50, sounds about right.
In 2016, El Rush-Bo pointed just how completely Hussein had decimated the democRATS. From 2010 to 2016, the democRATS lost 1,500 State and Federal elections. ONLY 5 States had both a democRAT Legislature and a democRAT Governor. They are truly a bicoastal party. They have to cheat to gain office.
Obama succeeded in remaking the Dem party from a centrist party to a left wing party by international (EU) standards. He did this to the celebration of the internationalist left.
DNC’s Hamas wing hardest hit.
> Simple solution!…<
I agree. It’s the messaging that’s failing them. They need to be louder about these wonderful things.
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they also have the 2030 census to rig with their use of an invading foreign army (pseudo hessians) of illegal aliens.
without those they will go extinct as a party as mist democrats now recognize their party has been hijacked by communists and are leaving the party in droves.
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