New Polls Reveal Strong Public Support for Trump’s Deportation Policies
Despite the Democrats’ desperate measures to block President Donald Trump’s efforts to remove members of Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua from the U.S., a Rasmussen Reports poll released on Sunday found that 64% of likely voters support the move. This includes 47% who strongly support it. Just 26% are opposed including 16% who are strongly opposed.
The poll also found that “about half” of those surveyed would like to see District Judge James Boasberg, who ordered two planes carrying gang members to an El Salvadoran prison to return to the U.S. two weeks ago, to be impeached.
A CBS News/YouGov survey released on Sunday showed that 58% of respondents support Trump’s deportation program, while 42% oppose it. While the poll did not specifically ask whether Judge Boasberg should be removed, it asked if federal judges who ruled against Trump’s policies should be impeached. The results fell largely along party lines. The margins were as follows: Republicans, 59%-41%; Independents, 27%-73%, and Democrats, 19%-81%.
Rasmussen Reports leans right, while YouGov leans left. However, averaging their results—61% in support and 34% opposed—still shows that a majority of Americans want these gang members removed from the country.
Yet Democrats are willing to die on this hill.
Over the weekend, PJ Media’s Matt Margolis reported on a newly surfaced video of a Washtenaw County (Michigan) Democratic Party meeting that took place shortly after the November election. The event, called Democratic Responses to Trump’s Attacks & Lessons Learned from 2024 MI House Races, focused on ways the party can work together to stop Trump from implementing his agenda.
The primary takeaway from the video is a call to action from Michigan Rep. Debbie Dingell, the epitome of an AWFL (Affluent White Female Liberal). She provides the group with a five-prong strategy to obstruct Trump’s plans: “litigate, legislate, educate, advocate, communicate.” Dingell said:
We need to make sure it’s in every one of those damn conservative, wherever they’re communicating, and we have to be the voices that are smart, targeted, and effective, and fighting back. And the way we do it. We litigate. We legislate. We only need three votes, three Republican votes. I don’t know that we can ever get the person that’s closest to us, but he is chair of Ed and Labor, but we need to be targeting someone that may want to run for governor.I’m not gonna give you names so I can’t get in total trouble but take your brain one little bit. We need to be targeting all that. Then we need to be educating, that’s raising the stories, that’s telling people what is happening. We’ve got to be advocating, and we gotta be communicating. So that’s the five-prong strategy: litigate, legislate, educate, advocate, communicate.
Toward the end of her remarks, Dingell realizes she may have gone too far and says, “I hope nobody taped that.”
(Relevant portion begins at 27:50 in the video below.)
Dingell’s comments disgust us more than they surprise us. Throughout a grueling campaign, Trump clearly outlined his entire agenda. His decisive victory showed that the majority of voters approved. Yet here was the congresswoman “educating” party members on how to thwart the will of the American people.
Since Trump began his second term, Democrats have fiercely opposed efforts to audit the federal government, gone to great lengths to keep dangerous foreign gang members in the U.S., and blocked a bill preventing biological males from competing in women’s sports—all issues that the vast majority of Americans support.
Do they honestly think voters don’t notice their refusal to budge from the losing end of 80-20 issues? The Democratic Party has, for lack of a better word, become ridiculous. Consumed by their hatred of Trump, they have lost sight of why they sought public office in the first place. Their obsession with undermining Trump has completely overshadowed any focus on what’s best for America.
By now, it’s clear that Democrats have learned nothing from their crushing defeat in November. Instead of changing their obstructionist approach, they are doubling down on the same failed tactics. Even The New York Times editorial board has taken notice—in a weekend op-ed, they noted that the party is in denial. “In the aftermath of this comprehensive defeat, many party leaders have decided that they do not need to make significant changes to their policies or their message.”
Instead, the editors say the party is trying to rationalize its defeat.
That explanation starts with the notion that Democrats were merely the unlucky victims of postpandemic inflation and that their party is more popular than it seems: If Democrats could only communicate better, particularly on social media and podcasts, the party would be fine. “We’ve got the right message,” Ken Martin, the new chairman of the Democratic National Committee, said while campaigning for the job. “What we need to do is connect it back with the voters.”
Democrats’ refusal to face reality will ensure they remain on this failed path, further alienating their party from voters.
Shortly after the election, an article caught my eye. It was titled, Running Scared: Democrats Routed by a Torrent of Hate. I thought it was a perfect way to describe what had just occurred.
I was surprised to find out that its author was a Harris supporter. The Fair Observer’s Larry Beck wrote: “Donald Trump’s reelection this November shows countless citizens are racist and selfish. Democrats must develop a message to promote a new reality, replacing the exposed delusions.”
They really don’t get it, do they?
Elizabeth writes commentary for Legal Insurrection and The Washington Examiner. She is an academy fellow at The Heritage Foundation. Please follow Elizabeth on X or LinkedIn.
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