Left-leaning pollster Quinnipiac delivered some very bad news for the Democrats on Wednesday. Their latest poll showed that just 19% of registered voters “approve of the way the Democrats in Congress are handling their job,” 72% disapprove, and 10% were unsure. That’s a 53-point deficit.
Quinnipiac concedes this is a record low since they first began asking this question in March 2009.
Among Democrats, 39 percent approve of the way the Democrats in Congress are handling their job, while 52 percent disapprove and 9 percent did not offer an opinion.One-third of voters (33 percent) approve of the way the Republicans in Congress are handling their job, while 62 percent disapprove and 5 percent did not offer an opinion.Among Republicans, 77 percent approve of the way the Republicans in Congress are handling their job, while 20 percent disapprove and 3 percent did not offer an opinion.
The survey of nearly 1,300 registered voters was conducted between July 10 and 14, after the One Big Beautiful Bill Act passed Congress without a single Democratic vote.
I had some trouble finding this particular result because the headline for the poll on the Quinnipiac website read:
63% Of Voters Disapprove Of The Trump Administration’s Handling Of The Jeffrey Epstein Files, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Nearly Half Of Voters Would Consider Joining A Third Party, Just Not One Created By Elon Musk
But I persevered and buried deep in the results, there it was.
Very few commenters on X were surprised by this number.
Most people thought the Democratic Party couldn’t sink any lower than it did in March, when two polls released on the same day showed its favorability at the lowest levels since 1990 and 1992, respectively.
An NBC News poll found that only 27% of respondents had a positive view of the Democratic Party—the lowest rating since 1990. Among them, just 7% described their views as ‘very’ positive.
That same day, a CNN poll found that 29% of respondents had a “favorable” view of the Democratic Party—a level not seen since 1992. For context, when former President Joe Biden took office in January 2021, just two weeks after the January 6 Capitol riot, the party’s favorability stood at 49%.
Since losing the White House and both chambers of Congress in November, we might have expected them to tack back to the center or, at the very least, not become more radical. But, if anything, they’ve become more extreme. Rather than offering original policy ideas or working with Republicans on issues that matter to most voters, Democratic lawmakers have focused their efforts almost entirely on obstructing President Donald Trump’s agenda.
They are consumed by their obsessive hatred of Trump and this has left little room for actual governance or for advancing the will of the people they were elected to represent.
Too entrenched in bitterness to recalibrate, Democrats fail to see that these tactics stopped being strategic long ago. They’ve become the party’s brand. Resistance isn’t just a stance anymore — it’s their platform. What remains is a party adrift, stuck in an endless loop of permanent opposition.
This isn’t leadership. And every day, that reality is becoming clearer to the American people.
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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