A former pollster for former President Bill Clinton and former Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said during an interview on Friday that the Democrat Party is “falling off a cliff” following President Donald Trump’s resounding victory and GOP domination of Congress.
“Well, I’ve got some new polling coming out Monday that I just looked at. And frankly, the Democratic Party is falling off a cliff,” Mark Penn told Fox News host Laura Ingraham.
“The ratings, which were in the high 40s, are going to be like 35 percent, and I think the basic question, who is doing a better job as president, Biden or Trump? Trump is winning that with 57 percent,” he added.
“I think you’re seeing a retrospective assessment of Biden and the direction the Democratic Party was going; it really a lot more negative than it was on Election Day. And they’re looking at the contrast on immigration, on economic policy, on some of the social policies, and boy, they’re reevaluating and the Democratic Party, I have never seen anything like this. This is a record low for the Democratic Party in terms of favorability. It has fallen really, really way down. And I don’t think there’s any leadership right now that’s going to be able to bring that back,” said Penn.
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Former Clinton pollster Mark Penn says new data he has just obtained show the Democratic Party is “falling off a cliff.”
This comes as the party continues clinging to discredited and unpopular left-wing social issues.
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Ingraham mentioned that some CNN personalities were “a little bit excited” because some of President Donald Trump’s poll numbers have slightly fallen, as is normal after a president is in the White House for a month before political analyst and pollster Matt Towery responded.
“Well, I think, first of all, Mark framed it right. Where is Trump vis-a-vis Biden, and he’s way ahead. That’s something that gets hidden in these stories. The second thing is, you have a lot of the pollsters who could not poll Trump well during any of his election cycles, coming out suddenly saying what his approval rating is. Whereas you get someone like Harris, which Mark is involved with, or InsiderAdvantage, or Trafalgar or others,” Towery said.
“Atlas, we’re more likely to get his approval right. And I think his approval rating is somewhere between six and 10 points above, in other words, a plus 10 or more, whereas these media groups are trying to say he’s down three or he’s down four, that is just not born out by the facts I’ve seen or the numbers I’ve seen, or numbers I’ve seen from other pollsters who I really respect,” Towery added.
“And I think the Trump team knows this is coming. They know there’s going to be this big play of saying, oh, he’s suddenly becoming unpopular, they’re going to try to drive a wedge between him and Elon, it’s not working,” he said.
Penn also said that he did not get the Democrat Party’s strategy of “going after (Elon) Musk.”
“There is overwhelming support for cutting government spending, overwhelming, you’re talking 70 percent plus numbers saying that waste, fraud and abuse. Now, Musk himself has about an even personal rating, but the mission that he’s on is really seen as one that America needs to do,” he said, and Towery agreed.
“Here’s the thing, a lot of the polls have asked the question, do you think Elon Musk should have a great deal of influence in the White House? That’s not the question to ask. The question is, do you approve or disapprove of what he’s done so far? And when you ask that question, he’s up by five or six points,” said Penn.
“And among Republicans, which, by the way, the media was trying to say, they were all leaving him in the polls as well. He’s at almost 79 percent, 80 percent, so Musk is not a problem for Donald Trump right now, and the show they’re putting on right now is working,” he added.
