The Democratic Party is imploding — and no one is coming to save them…
NewsNation political contributor Chris Cillizza said Thursday that new polling spells big trouble for Democrats.
According to a Wednesday survey by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, only about one-third of Democrats said they were “very” or “somewhat” optimistic about their party’s future. Cillizza said the poll—and another recent survey—highlights just how fractured and weakened the Democratic Party has become.
“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 broke down the AP poll’s findings, highlighting a sharp decline in Democratic optimism since July 2024, when the Democrats swapped out Joe for Kamala.
“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.”
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🚨NEW: @ChrisCillizza says new data on Dems is "INCREDIBLY TELLING AND PROBLEMATIC"🚨
"The Democratic Party is in worse shape today … than at any time that I can remember in my covering of politics, which is now … almost three decades." @DailyCaller pic.twitter.com/WC3hs75BLJ
— Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 (@JasonJournoDC) May 15, 2025
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