Former Clinton Pollster Warns Dems That ‘Scaring People’ During Trump Term Is Losing Strategy

Former Clinton campaign pollster Doug Schoen said Wednesday that Democrats’ efforts to “scaring people” about President Donald Trump’s policies would not work.

After the Trump administration began implementing an executive order to reevaluate and realign foreign aid spending, Democratic members of Congress joined protestsoutside the headquarters of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Treasury Department Tuesday. Schoen told “Fox and Friends” co-host Ainsley Earhardt that Democrats’ current strategy “isn’t doing much” to win voters back.

“Fundamentally, I think the party should be cooperating with President Trump where the issues he’s taking on, like immigration, have broad public support,” Schoen said. “The economy where broad public support. Reducing the side of government. You can differ with the president on substance where that is in line with party principles, but to just oppose him and just spite him proves to be a recipe for failure in the last election and we’re facing the consequences, Ainsley, of that right now.”

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After playing a video clip featuring Democratic Reps. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and LaMonica McIver of New Jersey, along with MSNBC hosts Jen Psaki and Joy Reid and CNN contributor Van Jones attacking the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and making claims that shuttering USAID would lead to people dying, Earhardt asked Schoen to react to the Democrats’ comments.

“Well, Ainsley, you make a number of points. Let me take them up,” Schoen said. “First, Americans want a smaller government. That is undeniable. Second, it is entirely appropriate to say to President Trump, we don’t think we need to cut a third of the budget, we don’t need to eliminate the number of employees he is talking about with Elon Musk, talking about reducing.”