The democratic party’s popularity rate among Americans reached a record level of low, according to a new survey by CNN Conducted by SSRS, fueled in part by the fall in the opinions of their own frustrated supporters.
With many in the party saying publicly that their leaders should do more to face President Donald Trump, 57% to 42% of Democrats and independent democrats say that Democrats should work mainly to prevent the republican agenda, rather than working with the majority of the Republican Party to put some democratic ideas in the legislation.
The survey was conducted from March 6 to 9, days before 10 Democratic senators – including Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer – vote with Republicans in the House to approve a republican bill to avoid a government stoppage to the disgust of many other democratic legislators and progressive critics.
The majority of fighting the Republican party marks a significant change in the party’s stance since the beginning of Trump’s first term. A September 2017 survey found a large 74% majority of democrats and democratic supporters saying that his party should work with Republicans in an attempt to promote their own priorities, and only 23% defending a more combative approach.
Adults aligned with Democrats say, 52% to 48%, that the leadership of the Democratic Party is currently leading the party in the wrong direction. This is another change of eight years ago, when views on this metric were widely positive.
Among the American public, the Democratic Party’s popularity rate is just 29% – an index that represents a low record in the survey of CNN which dates back to 1992, and a 20 -point drop since January 2021, when Trump left his first term under the shadow of the January 6 attack in the Capitol. The Republican Party rate is currently 36%.
This is partly motivated by relatively high levels of dissatisfaction within the Democratic Party. Only 63% of democrats and independent Democratic inclination report a favorable view of their own party, a 72% drop in January and 81% at the beginning of President Joe Biden’s administration. The decline occurs in ideological wings, with the classifications of popularity for the Democratic Party falling at 18 points between liberals and moderate since the early 2021.
In contrast, 79% of Republican Republicans and supporters of the Republican currently have a positive view of the acronym. Independent politicians like a group have dark views of both parties, with 19% evaluating the democrats favorably and 20% saying the same of Republicans.
“Extreme policies”
Both the Democratic and Republican party are seen by about half of the public as having very extreme visions and policies rather than generally conventional. This is a change from 2022, when most Americans – 56% – called the positions of the Democratic Party. Republican visions have remained unchanged over this time.
Independent politicians are still more likely to see Republicans as outside the mainstream – 57% call the party very extreme, while 48% say the same as democrats. But 16% of Democrats call their own party very extreme, while only 9% of Republicans say the same of their own party.
The public continues to distinguish between Trump and his party. Americans have 9 points more likely to call the president a lot of extreme than to say the same of the Republican Party as a whole, although this is a drop in the difference of 18 points by 2022.
Democrats, who consider Trump very extreme, still need to consolidate around a party leader to serve as a counterpoint. Asked in an open question to name the democrat leader they think “better reflects the party’s essential values, 10% of Democrats aligned with New York Deputy Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 9% of former Vice President Kamala Harris, 8% Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and 6% minority leader in the Hakeem Jeffries. Another 4% appoint former President Barack Obama and Texas Jasmine Crockett deputy, with Schumer joining a handful of others with 2%.
More than 30% did not offer a name in response. “No one,” answered an interviewee. “This is the problem.”
Michigan Senator Elissa Slotkin, who gave the party’s response to Trump’s presidential speech this month, remains largely unknown. A separate question discovers that almost three quarters of Americans have never heard of it or have no opinion about it, with the rest divided into their opinions. Slotkin is little better known within her own party, although adults aligned with democrats who express a vision of her are largely positive, 24% favorable to 6% unfavorable.
Cortez’s inventory in the party is especially high among those who describe themselves as liberals and those under 45, approximately 1 in 6 within each of these groups calling it emblematic party values. No Democratic leader obtained two digits among older or moderate adults in this metric.
Adult visions aligned with Democrats about their party and their leadership are also clearly divided over demographic lines, the research discovers. Those who call themselves Democrats are much more likely than the independents who lean into the party to express favorable views of Democrats (72% to 37%) and to say that party leaders are leading it in the right direction (53% to 34%).
And while party leadership receives positive assessments from most women -aligned with Democrats (57% of which they say they are taking Democrats in the right direction), color people (57%) and those without university diploma (60%), only 38% of men and 32% of whites with university diploma say the same.
In contrast, majorities in all demographic lines say they want to see Democrats working to stop the Republican agenda, with little difference between the visions of those who describe themselves as Democrats and those of the independents who include the party. The only group aligned with the remaining Democrats to stand out in favor of the commitment is moderate: they say, 51% to 48%, that Democrats should try to work mainly with Republicans.
The research of CNN It was conducted by SSRs from March 6 to 9 among a random national sample of 1,206 US adults, taken from a probability -based panel. The surveys were conducted online or by telephone with a live interviewer. The results between all adults have a margin of sampling error of ± 3.3 percentage points. The results between the Democratic Democrats or independent democrats have a margin of sampling error of ± 5.0 percentage points.
This content was originally published in CNN research: Democrats popularity reaches a record in the US on the CNN Brazil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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