Democrats Still At Worrying Lows In New Harvard CAPS/Harris Poll: Dritan Nesho

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00:00Start talking about Democrats because when we spoke in February was not good news for Democrats. Democrats have faced historic

00:07Popularity problems, but what do people think about the left now? Tell us about it

00:13Sure, it's still not good news for the Democrats. I mean the Democratic Party is

00:18in the wilderness right now and

00:21It needs to find a path forward in

00:24In two very concrete ways one is who will be the standard bearers of the party

00:31Going forward because the public clearly doesn't think that that's AOC only about a third

00:36believe that AOC should be the standard bearer of the Democratic Party and while she has a

00:42small majority of support

00:45Within the Democrats. It's still a small majority of support. They're closer to be being split than anything

00:50Than anything else and then on the other side on the issues and the positions that they have

00:58the voters

00:59voters in general want the Democratic Party to

01:05Temper its positions and be a lot more common sense and a lot more constructive

01:10with how it's engaging with both Trump and the Republicans and

01:15You know when we look at the difference in approvals Republicans are 50% approved

01:21While they're governed, right? It's a little bit down than last month where they were at 55% but they're still very high

01:28Democrats last month. They were at 35% an all-time low this month. They're at 36%

01:35Again, statistically at an all-time

01:38low

01:39Their Senate leader Chuck Schumer in our favorability table

01:44Has the second lowest favorability only after Vladimir Putin and has the highest negative net

01:51Favorability only after Vladimir Putin. Of course, it's the names that we tested but I invite people to go to

01:59HarvardHarrisPoll.com and look at the data. This is not the type of data that you want to have as the leading

02:07Opposition party and further to that a third of Democrats don't approve of the Democratic Party today

02:13and close to three-fourths of independents

02:16They're not going to win anything for a generation with these numbers

02:19so

02:21the Democratic Party needs to recalibrate itself and

02:25Voters are waiting for that voters expected voters want the Democratic Party to

02:31engage rather than stall and fight

02:35and the data no matter how you look at it is

02:39You know raising alarms for Democrats and asking them to reorganize

02:47If you're essentially the highest elected leader in the Democratic Party and you're only pulling above Vladimir Putin

02:53I mean that's not a place you want to be and I think we saw this type of

02:58Democratic losing their footing in fighting last month during that CR fight where the house was pretty much almost

03:04United in voting against the CR then

03:08Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer did the about-face and voted for it averting a government shutdown

03:13Is that something that voters want to see do voters want to see?

03:18Democrats help not help Trump but try to find bipartisanship try to work with the Trump administration

03:25Work with Republicans or do Democrats want to see their leaders fight back a little bit more

03:31So 55% are a little bit more actually agreed with Schumer voting for the continuing resolution

03:39and not shutting down the government and

03:44You know while a very small majority of Democrats want to

03:48Fight back again. It's closer to the 50-50 mark than it is to an outright consensus that we should be fighting

03:57So, yes, it's clear that voters even amongst the ranks of Democrats they want

04:03more common-sense approaches more bipartisanship

04:07Coming together and really a new consensus of the Democratic Party in separate polling that we do when we ask

04:14What are the Democrats focused on?

04:17They're not focused on any of the key issues of the country cares about in the eyes of voters themselves

04:23Voters believe that they are

04:25focused still on

04:28You know what could be categorized as quote-unquote walk issues

04:33right more cultural issues of

04:35Centered left or the far left then they are on the hard problems that are facing the country and as long as this is the case

04:44Trump and the Republicans have both the tactical and strategic advantage

04:49Heading into the midterms and beyond

04:53so

04:54We still are you and I had a conversation before the election and I said that at that time

05:00It was Trump beat Trump and Harris be Harris

05:04Well right now it's Trump beat Trump still and the Democrats be the Democrats

05:09I think something really telling that you just said is it's Trump V Trump and Democrats V Democrats

05:16Because Trump is the standard-bearer of the GOP

05:19Democrats they don't have one. Is there any indication of who that name is that will eventually emerge?

05:27There's no indication yet who that is

05:31voters are clearly saying

05:33Overall of close to seven and ten are saying that they want to see a new Democratic figure emerge

05:39so if it is it'll probably be a governor or

05:44someone from the

05:46middle to higher ranks that is not a household name and

05:51That is likely to reinvigorate

05:53the Democratic Party

05:56as long as that person really

05:58approaches it

05:59the current issues of the day with bipartisanship the common sense in a constructive footing not by stalling and

06:07You know, it makes sense, right? Most of the leadership of the Democratic Party

06:13Is very old right now, right with very few exceptions

06:16Or the young leaders that exist have to be very far to the left, right like AOC and so

06:25voters are not

06:26They're they're they're not in favor of either of those extremes. Let's put it that way

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