Posted on 05/05/2026 8:48:57 PM PDT by Red Badger
Former Bill Clinton pollster Mark Penn appeared on FOX News this week and suggested that the Democrat party has moved too far to the left for voters, citing polls that show them less favorable than Republicans despite the fact that we are headed into midterm season.
Penn correctly points out that people like Graham Planer, AOC and Zohran Mamdani get all of the attention from the media, which drives Democrat interest in the radical base of their party.
He seems to have real questions about how ell Democrats could do this fall.
Transcript via Real Clear Politics:
MACCALLUM: Quick response on that, Mark, as we watch people enter the room here and get ready for the president.
PENN: Well, the real question is, has the Democratic party moved too far to the left to be acceptable? Our candidates like [Graham] Platner, you know, and obviously Mamdani and AOC get so much publicity. And obviously, Jeffries, in order to get the speakership himself, has moved so much more aggressively left in terms of the rhetoric.
Is this party going to go into the midterms and move back to the center, or is it going to really be seen as too far to the left? Right now, you can see in the polls that despite the fact that the voters are unhappy with the economy and the Republicans, they obviously think that the Democratic party has drifted too far to the left, and that’s why it’s coming out lower than the Republicans in virtually every poll.
Here’s the clip:
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If you want to watch the entire segment for context, you can see it below:
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It is impossible to argue with what Mark Penn is saying here. When Obama was running in 2007, Democrats would froth at the mouth if you called them socialists. Now, many of them are running openly as communists.
This is no longer the party of JFK. Not even close.
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Too far to the terrorist is more like it.
A little too far to the fraud too.
And they can’t be brought back either. They support open nazis.
They’ve become an outright communist domestic terrrorist organization. Is that too far left for ya? spit.
They are headed for a schism in their party.............
They really mean, they are being “too obvious” about it.
“They might be commies but they are our commies and we will continue to vote for them.” Says the typical democrat voter.
Ya think? They’ve gone over a cliff like demon- possessed swine. They are not even Democrats.
They have been wack jobs for a long time, its just over time and maybe because of alternate media they have been exposed.
What schism? Blue Dog Democrats are now Republicans.
Ya think? They have cocktails with wife beating illegal aliens, blame the victims of murder for being in the wrong place at the wrong time, excuse IED tossers for having bad days, tell women who were beat by men in a particular sport that they should stop whining and start training more, rally around for mayoral candidates who blame climate change for empty fire hydrants, the list goes on and on .
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The DNC’s Hamas wing disagrees.
Ds now have a Hamas wing, a Nazi wing and a Commie wing. Mark Penn is, along w/Fetterman Harold Ford Julian Epstein and Doug Schoen, among a sprinkling of true liberals in an ocean of Leftists and extremists.
The demonic, dehumanizing, dystopian death cult aka Democrat Crime Syndicate is bad for the life, liberty, pursuit of happiness individuals in the republic.
Everyone has been saying this for 25 years. That’s why. Election Fraud is such a big issue. They don’t need legitimate ballots any longer. There is a natural ebb and flow to politics, and that’s not accounting for bat-skit Crazy policies.
Trump is almost Clinton from the 90’s.
But defently not on trade.
But defently not on trade.
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