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Dems in Further Disarray As Former Party Members Bowman, Bush Try to Offer Advice

Rebecca Downs
Rebecca Downs  |  May 06, 2025 12:30 PM

As Townhall has been covering, the Democratic Party is in severe disarray since its loss in last November's election and into President Donald Trump's second term. Yet its members keep harping on Trump and his approval numbers when they should focused on themselves and how they fare far worse. It's laughable when Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) tries to lash out against Trump when he has particularly low approval ratings. However, at least Schumer was reelected, though he may lose a primary come 2028. Former Reps. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) and Cori Bush (D-MO), Squad remembers who lost their primaries last year, chiming in is particularly comical as well.

There's been plenty of chatter about Trump's approval ratings around the administration's first 100 days mark. While the president has room for improvement, he's in a far better position than Democrats, including Schumer, who was confronted at length by CNN about its poll showing the senator from New York has just a 17 percent favorable rating. His laughable response was "polls come and go," which one could say about Trump, as well as that his party is certainly "united." We'll see if Schumer holds onto his seat or if Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) defeats him in a primary, especially since she is handily leading in hypothetical polls.

Bowman and Bush, two far-left, anti-Israel members of the Squad represent perhaps another issue of unity for the Democratic Party. Many members have become increasingly anti-Israel, yet still hold onto their seats. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) didn't face a primary challenge, but Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) did, though she held onto her seat. As those who played the victim until the very bitter end of their losing campaign and even afterward, Bowman and Bush have made the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) out to be an evil boogeyman. As another Squad member who kept her seat, AOC has been particularly incensed about the group daring to spend money to elect pro-Israel candidates, which it did with Bowman and Bush's replacements, now Democratic Reps. George Latimer and Wesley Bell, respectively.

Being anti-Israel is still unpopular enough for one to lose their seats, as Bowman and Bush learned. And yet, do they still think that the party should have listened to them? They do, as was addressed in their latest episode of "Bowman & Bush," available on Zeteo's YouTube page. Zeteo was launched by Mehdi Hasan, formerly of MSNBC, who is also anti-Israel.

Both of the former members shared clips of the segment from their X accounts. Bowman in particular mentioned David Hogg, a DNC vice chair who has also been making headlines in recent weeks for his $20 million effort to primary fellow Democrats, which DNC Chairman Ken Martin finally took issue with enough to address, though it was quite some time later. Hogg may now even lose his role in the coming months.

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In the clip shared by Bowman, Bush expressed a desire "for people to be effective in their roles." She and Bowman were arguably voted out because they were no longer effective in their roles, especially as they harped on Israel and went after AIPAC following the October 7, 2023, terrorist attack that Hamas perpetrated against our ally in the Middle East.

Bringing up the Democratic Party's 27 percent approval rating, Bowman described it as "the party is on life support and it needs new ideas, new voices, new energy to come and save it." He went on to say, "And, oh by the way, my humble opinion, two of those people that was there trying to save it, the party allowed to be attacked... and primaried, and condemned, and voted out office." As she had been concurring throughout, Bush also added that the party "pretty much served us up, at the end of the day that's what happened." Bush took the moment to go after AIPAC in particular, claiming and lamenting that they "were served up on a platter to AIPAC."

The Democratic Party allowed the process to work, and for Democratic voters in their district to vote them out of office. They were "attacked" and "condemned" for their own views and own statements, especially in Bowman's case, as he even denied sexual violence occurred against Israelis following the October 7 attack, with those November 2023 comments resurfacing in March 2024, just in time for it to be an issue for his June primary.

While Bowman is giving his "[s]hout out" to Hogg over his focus on "ineffective" Democrats, and Bush expressed feeling "joy" over the initiative, it's somewhat ironic given that Bowman and Bush were ousted through the democratic process of a primary, something that AOC laughably claimed was "a core threat to democracy," as she focused on the amount of money spent in the race, specifically Bowman's. Bowman and Bush also won their races by ousting a former incumbent.

And while the Democratic Party does have a 27 percent approval rating, per the NBC News poll from March, Bowman and Bush aren't the ones who should be talking about it, especially as former members.

The segment was also referenced in a piece by David Weigel of Semafor, which wondered, "Trump’s falling in polls. Why aren’t Democrats benefiting?" As the piece mentions:

“This is a party that has a 27% approval rating,” former New York Rep. Jamaal Bowman said last week on the new Zeteo show he hosts with former Missouri Rep. Cori Bush. “The party is on life support and it needs new ideas, new voices, new energy to come and save it.”

Bowman and Bush, who were ousted thanks in part to millions of dollars spent by pro-Israel groups to challenge them in primaries last year, agreed that Democrats would have been stronger had they listened to them.

Moderate Democrats, just as confidently, have blamed the left wing for discrediting the entire party with the voters they need to win back. In March, other polling for Navigator Research found a majority of voters in swing seats agreeing that Democrats were “more focused on helping other people than people like me,” that they were “too focused on being politically correct,” and that they did not share voters’ values.

Not that Bowman and Bush are worth listening to, least of all because they lost handily in their primaries last year, but because the party was likely too far to the left, leading to the losses Democrats saw last November. Every state, even and including Washington state, saw a rightward shift.

As Weigel pointed out in his piece, a saving grace for Democrats could be that it's still early, with the 2026 midterm elections just under 18 months away. The party isn't doing too well as the situation stands right now, and that can't be ignored.