Swing Voters Have Some Bad News for Dems With

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) hoped to damage President Donald Trump and the Republicans with the shutdown. But, instead, Schumer angered the leftist base, some of whom thought he caved and walked away with nothing for over 40 days of ridiculous posturing. 

Now, there’s more evidence that the shutdown could blow back on the Democrats. 

Georgia swing voters in the Engagious/Sago focus teams said it was not good for the Democrats, that they got here out of the wrestle trying worse than the Republicans. The people in the main target group have been people who voted for Joe Biden in 2020 and Trump in 2024. 

Seven of the 13 swing voters in their panels said Democrats got here out of the shutdown trying worse than Republicans. Two said Republicans seemed worse, and 4 said both events seemed equally unhealthy.

“It was for what?” said Christine L., 54, of Peachtree City. “It really does make them look bad.”

“They always project to be a party of the people who they care about, the disenfranchised, the people who are in poverty … but their actions contradict it, they don’t really care,” said Elijah T, 33, of Conyers.

“Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries beat the heck out of this and wasted 41 days dragging their feet before eight Democrats finally decided enough is enough,” said Brian B., 61, of Norcross.

“Democrats gave swing voters — who already hold the party in profoundly low esteem — yet another reason to mistrust them,” said Rich Thau, President of Engagious, who moderated the main target teams.

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Eight of the 13 who flipped to Trump still expressed general approval of Trump’s actions. The 5 who had points had issues about issues like inflation, high food prices, and immigration enforcement. That exhibits Trump still holding strong, but it is an indication that Trump and Republicans may do more to promote how those points are being made better. 

Asked what classes Republicans ought to take from the defeats, their advice included spending more money in races against Democrats, interesting more to the political middle, “don’t rest on your laurels” and “get a better stance on what’s going on and what people want to have done.”

Their advice to Democrats: “Don’t go too woke,” “follow through with your promises.” One voter famous that “midterms are never determined by these special elections.”

In addition to losing everybody’s time and placing people through a lot of pain with the shutdown, Democrats appear to be doing all they will to not comply with that advice by embracing socialists, from New York City to Seattle. Then, too, they’re imploding all over each other, Schumer could get the boot, and it sounds just like the left goes to main him and others. 

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So while Republicans should not “rest on their laurels,” and they need to focus on the economic system for the next election, this is one more indication that the Democrats failed with their shutdown strategy and face some real hassle in the midterms.  

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