We want to get into politics and the headlines I've seen this week and from Washington about the Democratic Party. There's a new CNN poll that shows the party's favorability among Americans has dropped to a record low. The poll was conducted for CNN via web and telephone on THESRS Opinion Panel. That's a nationally representative panel of US adults ages eighteen or older, recruited using probability based sampling techniques. To be clear, they are an independent research company, not
right or left. So here's what the poll revealed. Many people in the Democratic Party are saying that leadership should do more to stand up to President Trump. It shows that Democrats and Democratic aligned in dependents say fifty seven to forty two percent that Democrats should mainly work to stop the Republican agenda rather than working with the GOP
majority to get some Democratic ideas into legislation. The survey was taken days before ten Democratic senators, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, voted with Republicans to advance a GOP authored spending bill to avert a government shutdown. The survey also revealed the Democratic lined adults say fifty two to forty eight percent that the leadership of the Democratic Party
is currently taking the party in the wrong direction. There's another shift from eight years ago, when views on the same metric were largely positive. And finally, the poll revealed that among the American public overall, the Democratic Party's favorability rating stands at just twenty nine percent. That's a record low in CNN's polling dating back to nineteen ninety two, and a drop of twenty points since January twenty twenty one, when Trump left his first term under the shadow of
the January sixth attack on the Capitol. Okay, again, the poll was conducted for CNN by an independent research company. The surveys were obtained on March sixth through the ninth, before the spending bill occurred. First of all, that's the problem with producers and editors. That's too damn long, too much information. Okay, yes, they say I gotta read that to you or whatever, but damn it, I hope you didn't fall asleep on that, because that's not the subject.
That's not the point. Here's the point. The strategy's not gonna work. Are you listening to me, Michael, You're listening to me? Sherry it's not gonna work because it's still not touching on what's really, really really the issue. All of that stuff that I just read. I know what y'all saying. It's mumbo jumble, it's facts, it's accurate, it's something you needed to hear. But you really don't give
a shit. What you really care about is what you're gonna do to reclaim the White House, what you're gonna do to reclaim seats in the House and the Senate. I got a story to tell the Democratic Party. Are you ready for this? Rather than telling us what we should vote against, maybe you should present us with options of what to vote for. Just a thought. I mean, my god, it you okay Michael with me suggesting that
are you okay with me? Sherry suggesting that Rashwan Galen and all of a bunch of leftists that's under my umbrella trying to act like they're independence when they're full of it. I'm talking about my whole damn staff. I can say it with love and affection because I don't mind. I'm a centrist. I think my man Rashwan is a centrist. The rest of these damn people working for me, I mean, what left wing party are you associated with. I mean, you gotta believe this stuff. You gotta listen to it
to hear it. I'm gonna say it again. Rather than come to them, to come to folks with what to vote against, how about telling us what we should vote for. Because you see, I'm no fan of Chuck Schumer. I'm not a fan of Chuck Schumer, but he wasn't wrong here. Didn't you know that when a government shut down takes place, whatever party supports the government shut down is who gets blamed. It don't even matter how right you are. You could have very salient points. You don't like Trump and now
cutting USA program DEI programs. You don't like what they're suggesting. You don't approve of his position with the war in Ukraine. You don't approve of him schmoozing with Vladimir Putin in Russia. You're wondering, where was all of this talk about in inflation in the economy? What if you're really really done to address it? You got a thirty seven trillion dollar budget, which he contributed to, by the way, because he spent a lot of money when he was president number forty five.
It wasn't like it was that the Democrats spending It was him too, And you're talking about holding them accountable for all of that. Fair. Fair. You're talking about him and the immigration policy, and you're talking about targeting criminals. But we're talking about a ten year old that I just finished asking bort us our Tom Homan about the other day, that was being deported back to Mexico even though she's US citizen. Blah blah blah blah blah, all of these things you want to point to. I'm not
even saying you might not be right. What I'm saying is if you're the Democrats, that ain't gonna work for you. You know why, because you're done messed up, and your objective should be recapturing a trust that you're once had from folks on the left. In order to do that, you're gonna have to be aligned and unified and start preaching about what's important to the American people instead of what you'll think the American people should find important. See
the difference. Will we try that again, Michael, want to try that against Sherry. I'm just saying, you gotta be about preaching about what's important to the American people and what they care about. Instead of telling them what they should care about. You know why you can't make that argument anymore because you had your chance. You had President Biden up in that office. You knew he wasn't the same. You knew there was shrinkage that kicked in mentally. You
knew that people were talking about him being incapacitated. This before the debate on June twenty seventh. You knew it. You knew it, You knew it, and it got you on camera chant for four more years for a dude that was approaching eighty two years of age, that would have been in office until he was eighty six, assumed he got there, even think he was gonna make it,
and God bless him, I hope he does. But what you did was say, let's just get him through the election because the rest of us is running the government anyway. The trust of the American people were compromised. I'm a black man. You know how mean times I get tied of this not being mentioned. How racism and things pertinent to a community that makes up thirteen and a half percent of our population was shoved to the waystside. And it wasn't even for the LGBTQ plus community. As a whole.
You were focusing on transgender rights more so than you were focusing on black people. You took him for granted. The Hispanics with the borders, do you know that I know more Hispanic folks that wanted closed borders more than one in open borders. Latinos in this country. Let tin that's in this country had a problem with illegal immigrants more than some of the American citizens because they said they have to stand in line. Who the hell are they not to have to stand in line? But you
ignored that too. The economy stupid. Remember what James Carville said in nineteen ninety two when Clinton was running for the presidency. It's the economy stupid. Remember that. Well, we preaching about that now. We weren't even acting like inflation was an issue until they've slapped us all in the face. Oh, there's no border crisis, not at all. Remember Vice President Kamala Harris on the view. Here's there anything about President
Biden's administration that you would do differently? I really can't think of anything, really, ladies and gentlemen. That's why she can't run for president again in twenty twenty eight. She has no chance. She has to run for the governance sea to California. She can't run for the presidency. Say oh, this announcement is coming this summer. Please not wasting your time.
You can announce it now. It's got to be the governor's position or nothing, because you can't run for the presidency of the United States if you Kamala Harris, because they're going to reair that interview, and it just shows that there was a collective deceit being pushed forward to
the American public. And after all of that backdrop, and after the embarrassment of the Democratic Party with Trump's speech to both Houses of Congress the other day where people holding signs and they're making videos with twenty two people echoing the same verbiage clearly toned down, and they got the nerve to be dancing, some of them with their non dancing air selves on video, trying to appeal to folks knowing they were beyond their lane trying to do that.
After all of that, you're gonna let the government shut down? You would have played right into Donald Trump's hands. Even with Elon Musk scaring the living daylights out of more than half the American population with what the hell he gonna do next. What cuts is he going to suggest that Trump is going to okay? How many programs are gonna be slashed, how many bodies are gonna fall, how many federal workers are gonna be without a job. Even with all of that, the Democrats still don't have the
cachet and the leverage to shut down the government. If Schumer deserves credit for nothing, and I'll be damned if I want to give him credit for much, we gotta give him credit for that. He knew better. You can't shut down the government him and none of the colleagues. But if I have votes to pass a budget to fund the government through September thirtieth, it had to happen, because you're a house divided. The GOP stood together and they pushed forth the budget and it was going to
go through. And if the Democrats hadn't supported it and the government happened to shut it down, jobs would have been lost, wages would have been lost, programs would have been slashed, and the Democrats and their lack of togetherness would have been to blame. Why, Because the GOP is aligned under Trump, there's nobody aligned with the Democrats. Because
you don't have leadership. Minority House Leader haw Kim Jeffries evidently is not aligned with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, AOC Alexandria A Cassio Cortez representative out of New York. What is she talking about? Schuman needs to be replaced. You got representative algree won't even let anybody, won't even let Trump speak, and he has to get booted out during the speech and ultimately censured. I like Jasmine Crockett. I'm looking forward to having her on this show. I
appreciate the fervor and the fight in AOC. She's welcomed on this show. But the Democrats are not together. You have no cachet and to be furious at Schumer is not paying attention to what's going on. If we'll be honest, if we're being honest, you're not paying attention to what's going on. This is an article that was written Michael Sherry. This is for y'all. I'm just looking at all of this right now. This a story in the Washington Post
dated February second. Democrats are in trouble and a provocative analysis offers ideas to repair the party. And in the article it's talking about the polling and how unpopular they are.
This is more than a month ago, aren't you. There's more than a month ago, And I'm trying to find a graph here, and it says if Democrats are serious about addressing their problems, they face a period of vigorous debate and self reflection akin to what they experienced after losing three consecutive presidential elections in the nineteen eighties, member both Reagan two terms and then hw Bush as a star.
Two veterans of that period, William Galston and Elaine Comark, have offered an assessment of the state of the party to be published Sunday by the centrist group Third Way, and advanced copy was made available to The Washington Post at the time. I want to read these couple of graphs, especially to my left wing guy, Michael here, okay, and Sherry,
you'll be lord here. Let me read this to y'all, just help y'all out for those Democrats who think a rapid response to war Room or massive get out the vote efforts will restore the party to its previous highs. The authors provide a bracing and provocative analysis quote this renewal involves more than communications organization and mobilization. They write, it will require a party to ask itself hard questions
about the reasons for its dwindling support among groups. It has long taken for granted to reflect on declining public confidence and government as a vehicle of progress, and the think a new about its policy agenda in an era of rapid change at home and abroad end quote. The
fracturing of the Democratic Coalition represents a major challenge. Though the decline and working class support for Democrats started decades ago, that Trump error has accelerated it and expanded it beyond on white working class voters to work in class, Hispanic and black voters, particularly men. So what is this article saying.
What are the experts saying working class voters? The numbers were dissipating within the Democratic Party from white that work in class voters, but now it's sifted to Hispanic and black working class voters, especially men. So you don't have working class voters the way you used to, and you don't have men the way that you used to in white, Hispanics and blacks. You have no party. You're just a bunch of individual parts claiming to be Democrats. You're not
a party. You're fragmented, you're weak, and the only way you can get yourself together is to be strong. That's one thing. But take it from me. I'm a novice at this, and even I know this. You have to reclaim being for the working class. When I say reclaim the working class does it doesn't mean money. It doesn't mean bathrooms shared by both genders. It doesn't mean that stuff. It doesn't mean pronouncing the right of proper nouns and pronouns,
doesn't mean that stuff. Working class. Back to James Carvell, it's the economy, stupid. It's about dollars and cents. It's about money in people's pocket, it's about the court to live in. Everything starts there. What the Democrats need to do is refocus on proclaiming yourself as the better party for the economy. Make sure that your policies are better when it comes to employing folks and putting money in
the pockets of the American citizens better than them. You pull that off without all of that other stuff on the fringes, and you get back to being sent to left. You can reclaim one of the houses of Congress in the midterms. You'd have a chance in twenty twenty eight. But if you keep being at the mercy of the extreme left, which Chuck Schuman in this case refused to do with the whole bill oh spending bill of budget,
making sure that the government then shut down. If you ignore that and go far left, it's not an election or another election you're gonna lose. You're gonna lose the country. The Democratic Party will cease to exist by the year twenty twenty eight, if not the year twenty twenty six, unless y'all get y'all act together. We all got stuff we want, and there's certain things that we can't be deprived of. I will remind you President Obama deported more
people than Donald Trump. He just didn't brag about it. There are certain things that you can want and you can get away with wanning if you ain't sticking out your chest proclaiming that as your battle cry, so using that to supplant other things that should be a priority. If you prioritize a on behalf of the American people, you'd be surprised what else you could get away with.
If you made sure you handle business first, prioritize appropriately, show yourself to be the better party than the others by what you have to offer instead of decrying what they are offering, and you might have a chance. If you don't, you're dead. You're done, And in case you haven't noticed, you're pretty damn close to that right now anyway, regardless of what you want to think about how close this election was in your mind, get your shit together.