‘Democrats Remain Irrelevant’: Former Clinton Pollster Actively Considering Ditching Democratic Party

Former Clinton pollster Doug Schoen told Fox News host John Roberts Thursday that he was unsure why he remains a Democrat after his party’s flawed resistance to the Trump administration following the president’s address to Congress.

Democrats remained seated and rarely applauded during Trump’s 99-minute address, even when Secret Service Director Sean Curran presented DJ Daniel, who is battling brain cancer, with credentials during the speech, receiving a hug from the 13-year-old Houston-area resident who has been sworn in as an honorary member of over 900 police departments. Roberts read from Schoen’s Wednesday op-ed in which the pollster said he had “increasing difficulty” remaining a Democrat before asking him why he was still with the party.

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“Well, it’s a good question, John. It remains one that is in active review. I can say I’m not a Republican,” Schoen said. “I disagree with many of the policies that President Trump so articulately outlined, and think he’s gone too far. But that being said, my party is not doing what Bill Clinton did when the Gingrich revolution came in 1994, which is to offer a set of alternatives that recognize the American people want border security, a reduction in inflation, tougher policies on crime, and immigration reform. Until we do that as a party, we Democrats remain irrelevant, sadly.”

Schoen also took aim at an 18-second video