Polling analyst Matt Towery has issued a stark warning to Democrats that they need to get control of their party back from the extremists, or they will go “completely off the edge.”
He appeared on the Fox News show “The Ingraham Angle” on Friday, where he compared former Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern in 1972 to the current state of the Democratic Party.
“The Democrats right now look like they’re drifting more towards the direction of George McGovern in 1972. And if you recall that that didn’t go so well. And Walz seems to be the perfect replacement for McGovern, except he makes McGovern look a little more serious,” he said.
“This is a point where the Democrats who really know what they’re doing in their party, and that’s people … who have run campaigns over the years, know the real issues people are concerned about, have either got in control of this party or it’s going to drift completely off the edge,” the pollster said.
He added that the Democrats should stop attacking President Donald Trump in favor of promoting policies that assist Americans.
“They certainly can’t keep attacking Donald Trump, because the pollsters who really get it right about Trump, I’m one, there are others, such as Robert Cahaly at Trafalgar and many others, Rasmussen, who polls every day,” the pollster said.
“They’re showing the president’s approval ratings are staying up, not going down. This is not, and Signalgate has not done anything, either. Yeah, I think that they got to get a new direction,” he said.
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Democrats are in a ton of trouble when it comes to their own voters, as support for the party has fallen to historic lows.
A report from Politico, which dug into the recent polls, showed disaster for the Democrats, with the news organization saying the left-wing party should be “very afraid.”
“Congressional Democrats have typically enjoyed higher popularity with their voting base than their Republican counterparts. But the trauma of the 2024 presidential election defeat appears to have ruptured that relationship. A review of Quinnipiac University’s annual first-quarter congressional polling reveals that, for the first time in the poll’s history, congressional Democrats are now underwater with their own voters in approval ratings,” Politico said.
The poll showed that 49 percent of Democrat voters disapprove of congressional Democrats, while only 40 percent approve.
It is even worse when juxtaposed to last year, when 75 percent of their voters approved of them while only 21 percent disapproved.
Politico compared the Democrat collapse to that of the Republican Party before Trump and the MAGA movement came along on the heels of the Tea Party movement that preceded it.
What is worse for Democrats is that their voters do not know if they want to move left or right. A recent Gallup poll showed that 45 percent want the party to be more moderate, whereas 29 percent preferred a more liberal approach, and 22 percent wanted to keep the status quo.
The anger with the party from its voters is that there does not appear to be the same effort to “resist” Trump as there was during his first term.
This all came to a head when Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer of New York and other Democrats voted for cloture on a government funding bill that allowed Republicans to pass the legislation.
The report suggests that longtime Democratic leaders could face serious challenges during the primary season, as incumbents could lose to a new candidate.
“There are 13 Democratic-held Senate seats up for reelection next year — many of them involving veteran senators in the bluest states — raising the prospect of a stream of younger, insurgent candidates more closely aligned with the party base, similar to what the GOP has contended with over the past 15 years,” Politico said.
