Most Democrats feel extremely pessimistic about the future of their own party in the aftermath of the 2024 election cycle, per a poll released Wednesday.
Only roughly one-third of Democrats said they were “very optimistic” or “somewhat optimistic” about the future of their party, according to a poll conducted in May by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. Meanwhile, the survey found that the majority of Republicans, 55%, said they felt “very” or “somewhat” optimistic about their party’s future, up from 47% in the summer of 2024.
“I just feel like the majority of the old Democratic Party needs to go,” Democrat Monica Brown, a respondent to the poll, said, the AP reported. “They’re not in tune with the new generation. They’re not in tune with the new world. We’ve got such division within the party.”
“I’m not real high on Democrats right now,” Democrat Damien Williams, another one of the poll’s respondents, said, according to the AP. “To me, they’re not doing enough to push back against [President Donald] Trump.”
Meanwhile, only about three in ten Republicans said that they felt optimistic about the overall state of politics in the U.S., according to the poll.
A number of other recent surveys have shown that many Americans disapprove of the Democratic Party following the party’s loss of the presidency and the Senate in 2024. A March CNN poll conducted by SSRS found that the party’s favorability rating among Americans was just 29%, which marked a new record low in CNN’s polling dating back to 1992.
The new AP-NORC poll notably comes at a time when the Democratic Party is looking to retake control of Congress in the 2026 midterm elections.
The poll of 1,175 adults was conducted from May 1 to 5, using a sample drawn from NORC’s probability-based AmeriSpeak Panel, which is designed to be representative of the U.S. population. The margin of sampling error for adults overall is plus or minus 4 percentage points.
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