Democrats' pessimism about party's future is highest in 8 years: poll

A caller canvass finds that Democrats are feeling glum astir their party's prospects aft Republican President-elect Donald Trump won the 2024 statesmanlike election.

Democratic pessimism astir the party's aboriginal is astatine its highest constituent successful 8 years, according to a caller Pew Research Center survey. Republicans, connected the different hand, are riding precocious and person the astir optimistic outlook astir their enactment recorded since the 2016 election, Trump's past statesmanlike victory.

For the archetypal clip since 2016, much Americans accidental the GOP, not the Democratic Party, represents the interests of "people similar them" precise oregon somewhat well, 50% to 43%.

Trump defeated Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris successful the 2024 election, winning 312 Electoral College Votes to her 226 votes and sweeping each the battleground states. Republicans besides flipped power of the Senate and managed to cling to their bulk successful the House of Representatives arsenic good – guaranteeing afloat power of the national authorities with a favorable 6-3 blimpish bulk connected the Supreme Court.

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Short of a filibuster-proof supermajority successful the Senate, determination is not overmuch much Republicans could inquire for successful presumption of powerfulness to enact their docket astatine the national level. So Democrats, understandably, are not thrilled astir their party.

A bulk of Democrats and Democrat-leaning independents, 51%, inactive accidental they are optimistic astir the party's future. However, 49% are pessimistic – an summation of 20 percent points from however Democrats felt aft the 2022 midterm election's mixed results, according to the Pew Research Center. The fig of pessimistic Democrats is besides astir 10 percent points higher than erstwhile Hillary Clinton mislaid to Trump successful 2016.

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Those who are nether property 50 and those further to the near than blimpish and mean Democrats tended to beryllium much pessimistic.

Republicans, however, are acold much optimistic astir their enactment contiguous (86%) than they were aft the 2022 midterms (65%) and Trump's 2016 triumph (79%).

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The Pew Research Center noted the partisan spread successful Republican and Democratic views of their respective party's futures is astatine 35 percent points, the largest of immoderate caller election.

Additionally, much Americans present accidental the GOP champion represents their interests than those who accidental it is the Democratic Party who does so. About fractional of Americans accidental Republicans champion correspond "people similar them" compared to 43% who accidental truthful astir Democrats – a displacement from caller years erstwhile the Democratic Party was believed to beryllium much typical of "people similar them." 

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That plaything of sentiment is astir wholly among Republicans and Republican-leaning independents, 85% of whom present accidental the GOP represents them good oregon somewhat well. That is simply a 14-point summation from a erstwhile Pew Research Center survey successful June 2023.

Most Democrats, 72%, inactive accidental their enactment represents them astatine slightest somewhat well. A tiny number connected some sides accidental their respective parties bash not correspond their interests well.