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Chapter 1: What issues are causing infighting among Democrats?
Democrats find themselves facing angry voters as a massive rift opens up between the far left and more moderate members.
Will the party's leadership consolidate or continue to splinter?
Chapter 2: Why is the Wisconsin Supreme Court race gaining national attention?
I'm Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief John Bickley with Georgia Howe. It's Monday, March 24th, and this is Morning Wire. President Trump and Elon Musk draw national attention to what could prove to be a pivotal battle for control of Wisconsin's Supreme Court.
This is about preserving democracy in America and not having ridiculous districts drawn that effectively disenfranchise voters in Wisconsin.
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Chapter 3: How are Democrat lawmakers reacting to voter dissatisfaction?
Democrat lawmakers have found themselves confronted by angry constituents as the party searches for a unifying message. Meanwhile, new polling shows Democrats continue to be less popular than ever before.
Daily Wire senior editor Cabot Phillips is here to discuss the brewing intra-party conflict and how voters are responding to it. Hey, Cabot, let's start with those numbers. What do they tell us about how Americans feel about the current political situation?
So historically, there's often a sort of buyer's remorse with voters, but that has not happened this year. Trump's approval ratings have held steady around 48%. That's well above where he stood during his first term. And Democratic popularity has only plummeted since Election Day. Last week, CNN found that just 29% of Americans view the party favorably. That's a 20-point drop from 2021.
And over the weekend, things got even worse. A new Quinnipiac poll showed that just 21% of Americans approve of Democrats' job performance in Congress. That is the lowest mark in the history of the poll. And even more concerning for the left, only 40% of Democrats approve of the job their leaders are doing in Congress.
Oh, and that's where the infighting comes in.
Exactly. The best example came last week during the Democrat debate over whether to shut down the government. Rank and file members in Congress wanted to kill the Republican spending bill and, you know, stick it to Trump, forcing a shutdown. But Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, arguably the most powerful Democrat in the country, opted to support the deal and keep the lights on.
That resulted in a wave of backlash from prominent Democrat lawmakers like AOC and Nancy Pelosi, and importantly, from voters. To give you an idea of their anger, Schumer had to cancel his upcoming book tour, quote, due to security concerns. And now that anger has been evident at town halls across the country.
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Chapter 4: What strategies are emerging within the Democratic Party?
For example, here's the message from one voter at a rowdy town hall for Arizona Democrats Mark Kelly and Ruben Gallego.
We're not willing to get in the mud with them. Maybe it's time we start getting a little bit dirtier with our messaging.
Here's another raucous event for Democrat House member Sean Kasten, which had to be shut down by police after angry protesters attempted to rush the stage.
What you're saying is I'm not going to get my way when my people are being slaughtered and I want you to stop funding them. If you would like to run for office, run for office. That is the stupidest thing I've ever heard. You are the most soulless piece of crap I've ever seen.
So how are Democrat lawmakers responding to this anger coming from within their own party, their own voters?
Well, there seem to be two main strategies emerging. First, there are those who say the party needs to listen to its far left base and double down on their opposition to Trump doing just everything possible to prevent his agenda from being implemented.
In that camp are Senator Bernie Sanders and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who kicked off their, quote, fighting oligarchy tour last week, hitting Tempe, Las Vegas and Denver in recent days and drawing crowds in the tens of thousands.
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Chapter 5: How are Democrats responding to progressive and moderate divides?
We're going to take on their effort to move us to an authoritarian society. But we have got to ourselves have a vision for the kind of country we want to become.
But the problem for Democrats in that camp is that the far left vision for America they're describing just doesn't seem all that popular with Americans right now. Remember, polling shows that Americans are still widely supportive of Trump's policies on legal immigration, foreign policy, transgenderism and DEI. Right.
He's really maintaining strong support for that. So the progressive wing is fighting to go further left. What is the other faction calling for?
So on the other side are Democrats who feel November's results were a clear rebuke of progressive ideologies and governance. They say the party has to shake that woke label and moderate on social issues while embracing a more old school blue dog Democrat approach. Leading the charge on that front is, ironically, California's Gavin Newsom, one of the nation's most far left governors.
He launched a new podcast where he's been having very friendly chats with hardline conservatives like Steve Bannon and Charlie Kirk. He's openly criticized his party as being elitist and out of touch, while conceding that he understands why folks supported Trump in November.
He even went as far as saying he opposes trans-identifying males in women's sports and called on Democrats to stop using gender-neutral language like Latinx, though he himself has used that term many times in the past. And it's worth noting, polling continues to show a real split on which strategy voters want.
The latest numbers from Gallup have 45% of Democrats wanting the party to become more moderate, 29% say more liberal, and 22% say hold the current course. So Democratic voters are just as divided as their leaders on how to approach these next four years. And in the meantime, the infighting continues.
And it's hard to see how these two sides end up aligning anytime soon. Kevin, thanks for reporting. Anytime.
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