The good news for Democrats is that President Donald Trump's popularity has fallen since his post-election honeymoon, and their core voters are 'high propensity' types whose reliable participation gives the party a leg up in lower-turnout elections. The latter factor threatens to remain a systemic advantage for Democrats for years to come, especially if Republicans continue to lean on less committed voters for support.
The bad news for Democrats is that Trump's popularity has been on the rise again lately, while the opposition party fights amongst itself and seeks to nullify the results of yet another one of their internal elections. More bad news? Their party remains strikingly unpopular with the broader electorate, including and especially when compared with Trump and the Republicans. Even in some places that have long been considered Blue strongholds.
The latest finding from a Harvard/Harris national survey:
Net Approval:
— Polling USA (@USA_Polling) May 19, 2025
Republicans: +4%
Democrats: -16%
Harvard/Harris / May 15, 2025
Part of this phenomenon is the Democratic base being angry at their leadership for not "fighting hard enough," or whatever, which is leading certain panicky clowns to do things like this:
Mexican vessel: Loses control, hits bridge
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) May 18, 2025
Schumer: I’ll never forgive Drumpf for this! 🤡 https://t.co/XpPgeDPG1e
This also seems like idiotic malpractice:
No one in Senate Democratic leadership has reached out privately to Fetterman in recent weeks to express support. If there are Democratic senators who want to be there for John, they have not told him this directly. https://t.co/CnLsRrSv8f
— Emily Jacobs (@emilyfjacobs) May 18, 2025
Meanwhile, in Florida, one of the state's longtime Democratic strongholds, which started to turn right in recent years, has officially made the registration flip:
A decade ago Miami-Dade county was a deep blue county with hundreds of thousands more registered Democrats than Republicans.
— Ron DeSantis (@RonDeSantis) May 19, 2025
Today, the county — with more than 2.8 million people — has a Republican voter registration advantage.
Nobody would have predicted this ten years ago. https://t.co/ANjjZ8v5ns
In 2016, Hillary Clinton won Miami-Dade County by 30 percentage points. Four years later, Joe Biden narrowly won there, by seven points. Ron DeSantis broke through two years later, taking Miami-Dade by double digits, among his wild re-election statewide romp. And last year, Trump replicated that margin, representing a swing of more than 40 percentage points in less than a decade. The voter registration data is a lagging indicator. I'll leave you with this. Are they really, truly running this exact same play again?
🚨Hakeem Jeffries: It’s “inappropriate” to be discussing the Biden cover-up. pic.twitter.com/cqVfss0RPi
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) May 19, 2025
He called the legitimate questions surrounding the timing of Biden's cancer diagnosis announcement Republican "conspiracy theories." Zero self-awareness. None. I had some thoughts on this subject:
Talked about this on @OutnumberedFNC today — and quoted @TPCarney on the timing of Biden’s cancer announcement. He observed that the former president deserves our prayers, but not the benefit of the doubt: https://t.co/m2tTfo4Vdk pic.twitter.com/xdFrZjGLen
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) May 19, 2025