The Democratic Party is in trouble.
Donald Trump swept the battleground states to defeat Kamala Harris in the 2024 election, while Democrats ceded control of Congress to Republicans. The president has not been popular over his first months in office, yet Democrats haven’t been able to block Trump’s tax cuts for the wealthy or investigate his rank corruption — and Americans have had it with the party’s feckless opposition. Quinnipiac University released a poll last month finding that only 19 percent of voters approve of the job the party is doing in Congress, a historic low .
Democrats hope they can regain control of the House of Representatives after next year’s midterm elections — but according to a new analysis by The New York Times , the party is losing registered voters a