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<blockquote data-quote="Box Ox" data-source="post: 6172549" data-attributes="member: 48469">[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/democratic-party-poll-voter-confidence-july-2025-9db38021?mod=hp_lead_pos7[/URL]<h3>Democrats Get Lowest Rating From Voters in 35 Years, WSJ Poll Finds</h3><h3>Republicans preferred on most issues that decide elections despite unease with Trump over the economy, tariffs and foreign policy</h3>7/25/25&quot;The Democratic Party’s image has eroded to its lowest point in more than three decades, according to a new Wall Street Journal poll, with voters seeing Republicans as better at handling most issues that decide elections.&quot;------------&quot;Democrats have been hoping that a voter backlash against the president will be powerful enough to restore their majority in the House in next year’s midterm elections, much as it did during Trump’s first term. But the Journal poll shows that the party hasn’t yet accomplished a needed first step in that plan: persuading voters they can do a better job than Trump’s party.On the whole, voters disapprove of the president’s handling of the economy, inflation, tariffs and foreign policy. And yet in each case, the new Journal poll found, voters nonetheless say they trust Republicans rather than Democrats to handle those same issues in Congress.&quot;------------“The Democratic brand is so bad that they don’t have the credibility to be a critic of Trump or the Republican Party,” said John Anzalone, a Democratic pollster who worked on the Journal survey with Republican Tony Fabrizio. “Until they reconnect with real voters and working people on who they’re for and what their economic message is, they’re going to have problems.”</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Box Ox, post: 6172549, member: 48469"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/democratic-party-poll-voter-confidence-july-2025-9db38021?mod=hp_lead_pos7[/URL] [HEADING=2][SIZE=5]Democrats Get Lowest Rating From Voters in 35 Years, WSJ Poll Finds[/SIZE][/HEADING] [HEADING=2][SIZE=4][I]Republicans preferred on most issues that decide elections despite unease with Trump over the economy, tariffs and foreign policy[/I][/SIZE][/HEADING] 7/25/25 "The Democratic Party’s image has eroded to its lowest point in more than three decades, according to a new Wall Street Journal poll, with voters seeing Republicans as better at handling most issues that decide elections." ------------ "Democrats have been hoping that a voter backlash against the president will be powerful enough to restore their majority in the House in next year’s midterm elections, much as it did during Trump’s first term. But the Journal poll shows that the party hasn’t yet accomplished a needed first step in that plan: persuading voters they can do a better job than Trump’s party. On the whole, voters disapprove of the president’s handling of the economy, inflation, tariffs and foreign policy. And yet in each case, the new Journal poll found, voters nonetheless say they trust Republicans rather than Democrats to handle those same issues in Congress." ------------ [B][U]“The Democratic brand is so bad that they don’t have the credibility to be a critic of Trump or the Republican Party,”[/U][/B] said John Anzalone, a Democratic pollster who worked on the Journal survey with Republican Tony Fabrizio. “Until they reconnect with real voters and working people on who they’re for and what their economic message is, they’re going to have problems.” [/QUOTE]

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