The Democratic Party’s approval rating is nearing an all time low, according to the results of Quinnipiac polling released Wednesday.
Just 31% of registered voters approve of the Democratic Party, the lowest favorability rating the pollster has recorded of the party since it began asking the question in 2008. The Democratic Party’s near-historic low favorability rating follows an election cycle during which Democrats nominated an unpopular presidential candidate to replace Biden after party elites and the corporate media colluded to conceal the former president’s cognitive decline from the American people.
Nearly six in ten Americans disapprove of the Democratic Party’s brand, according to the Quinnipiac poll.
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Biden and former Vice President Kamala Harris, who was selected to replace Biden at the top of the Democratic ticket in 2024, both left office in January with favorability ratings underwater. The former president departed from Washington with the lowest approval rating of any president on record, according to CNN’s Harry Enten.
Americans across the political spectrum, including some Democratic lawmakers, torched the Biden’s unprecedented use of the pardon power during his final weeks in office. The former president pardoned members of his family, controversial government officials and a convicted cop killer, in the last weeks of his term.
“The decision was appalling,” Democratic Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal told Fox News’ Sunday on Jan. 26 regarding Biden’s decision to grant clemency to a man convicted of murdering an eight year-old boy and his mother.
Increasingly poor perception of the Democratic Party’s brand also follows the departure of two former Democratic senators, Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, from the party in recent years after both repeatedly clashed with left-wing Democratic lawmakers over Biden’s legislative agenda.
“The D brand has been so maligned from the standpoint of, it’s just, it’s toxic,” Manchin told CNN last December. Manchin left the Democratic Party in May 2024 amid public speculation he was considering a future gubernatorial or presidential run.
Many Democrats have struggled to understand how they lost the popular vote for the first time since 2004 and shed four Senate seats in November, giving the GOP a governing trifecta for the first time in eight years.
The Democratic Party is also heading into President Trump’s second term without a clear leader of the party.
“I think Democrats are in the wilderness,” MSNBC’s Jen Psaki said in November following President Donald Trump’s decisive victory.
Support for the Republican Party, in sharp contrast, is at a record high with 43% of registered voters holding a favorable view of the GOP, according to the poll.
Speaker Mike Johnson reportedly said Tuesday that he believes House Republicans will be able to hold their majority for the next decade.
The Republican Party’s 12% higher approval rating over the Democratic Party is the largest favorability advantage Quinnipiac has recorded of the GOP over the Democratic Party since its university poll began asking registered voters about their views on America’s political parties, according to background Quinnipiac released on the poll.
Trump’s approval rating is currently 46%, which is ten points higher than when the president was sworn into the Oval Office in January 2017, according to the poll results.
The polling surveyed 1,019 self-identified registered voters from Jan. 23-27 and has a margin of error of roughly 3%.
The Democratic National Convention did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s inquiry regarding its approval rating.
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