The numbers are going from bad to worse for the Democrats, as the party continues to struggle in the aftermath of last fall's stinging election defeat. The latest Gallup poll finds just 25% of Americans are confident in Democratic congressional leadership. That is down nine points from two years ago, and the lowest since Gallup began tracking the issue in 2001. That follows a CNN poll last month that had the Democratic Party's national favorability at just 29%, down 20 points from four years ago.
Rather than try to dig out of this hole, it seems the Dems are digging deeper. Their latest moves include a public push to return a deported criminal illegal alien, and promoting far-left figures Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) and Bernie Sanders on their "Fight Oligarchy" tour. At the same time, younger Democrats are threatening to push out the party's old guard and move it even further to the left.
"(Democrats) have to really think about who are they going to try to run and win with in 2028," says Dana Perino, Fox News host and political analyst, in a recent interview. "If they don't, I think they could be in the wilderness for quite a while."
Some analysts have recently begun touting AOC as a possible presidential candidate, but Perino isn't buying it. "AOC and Bernie I think can probably draw a crowd pretty much anywhere they go...she's fun and he has name recognition...but neither of them are going to be president in 2028," says Perino.
"The Democrats have a big problem right now," she continues. "AOC and Bernie are so far out there, then you've got this young man at the DNC, David Hogg, saying we're not going to just try to beat Republicans, we're going to try to beat older, established Democrats."
"The country just sent a very clear signal that they don't want far-left progessives...so I wouldn't risk that if I were the Democrats."
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