Hoover Institution Senior Fellow Victor Davis Hanson predicted Friday on Fox Business that Democrats’ approval rating will further go down after the Democratic National Committee (DNC) chair event.
During an appearance on “The Bottom Line,” Hanson cited a Quinnipiac poll showing that less than half of the American public holds a favorable view of the Democratic Party.
“The Quinnipiac poll just showed that they have a historic low and that 37% of the American public looks favorably on the Democratic Party. That’s never been that low. And it’s going to go lower from what we saw last night,” Hanson said.
The Georgetown Institute of Politics and Public Service teamed up with MSNBC to host the fourth Democratic DNC leadership forum held on Thursday. Hanson said that during the event it became clear the party’s stances on a variety of issues — including crime, immigration, transgender rights, foreign policy, the economy, inflation, and energy policies — are misaligned with the majority of the American public opinion.
“It’s the message. Every single issue, crime, the border, transgenderism, foreign policy, the economy, inflation, energy — they’re on the wrong side of public opinion. And the messengers are force multipliers of that because they’re obnoxious, and they’re strident and they scream and yell like adolescents,” Hanson said. “They’re almost becoming pre-civilizational. They’re tribalists. When you identify by your race or your gender or your sexual orientation, and that becomes essential rather than incidental to who you are then everybody has this separatism, and you put them all together.”
Only 31% of registered voters hold a favorable view of the Democratic Party, marking the lowest approval since this question was first posed in 2008. This dip in favorability emerged following an election cycle in which the Democrats put forward a presidential candidate perceived unfavorably, amid allegations of party elites and mainstream media conspiring to obscure the former president’s mental fitness from the public.
Biden and former Vice President Kamala Harris left office earlier this month with more Americans viewing them unfavorably than favorably. Biden left Washington with the lowest approval rating ever recorded for a departing president, according to CNN’s Harry Enten.
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