Approval of the Democratic Party has hit a brutal record low as Democrats are split over how to take on President Donald Trump in the first few months of his second term, new polling finds.Among Americans overall, the Democratic Party’s favorability rating stands at just 29 percent, CNN found.
It’s the lowest favorability the party has seen since CNN first started conducting its polling back in 1992. It’s also a 20 point drop in approval since Trump left office more than four years ago at which time approval of the Democratic party was 49 percent. It’s also a ten point drop from just before the November election. At the same time, a new NBC News poll released Sunday similarly found only 27 percent of voters had a positive view of the Democratic Party. That was the lowest positive rating in NBC News polling history dating back to 1990.CNN noted that is a dramatic shift from Democrats’ views nearly eight years ago. A September 2017 poll from Trump’s first term found 74 percent of Democrats believed their party should try to work with Republicans. Overall, 51 percent of Americans view the Democratic Party as too extreme while 48 percent view it as generally mainstream. That includes 89 percent of Republicans and 48 percent of Independents who view the party as too extreme while 16 percent of Democrats do as well.
