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"Democrats HATE Their Own Leaders" - CNN Poll BOMBSHELL Shows Party In FREEFALL

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🗓️ 29 January 2026

⏱️ 8 minutes

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A recent poll reveals growing dissatisfaction within the Democratic Party, with 57% of Democrats disapproving of their own congressional leaders, the second-highest disapproval rate on record. This internal discontent highlights a widening divide between the party’s progressive fringe and its more moderate core, raising questions about how voter sentiment could shape the 2026 midterms.

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0:00.0

Maybe let's show some data because maybe Democrats are happy with Democrats. Here's a poll from Arienton. Rob, if you want to pull up, and I mean, maybe this is going to prove us so wrong. It's going to be, we'll risk it. We'll play the clip and we'll risk it. I mean, this may be a bad situation here, but go ahead, Rob. I'm sure they love themselves. What do Democrats' polls say about Democrats?

0:22.0

Go ahead, Rob.

0:22.7

Take a look at how Democrats who disapprove of congressional Democratic leaders.

0:28.0

Hello.

0:28.8

We're talking about 57% in January of 2026.

0:32.8

The second highest disapproval rate for Democratic leaders from their own party on record. It's only

0:39.2

beat by what we saw earlier on in this Congress when it was 61%. There's basically been no

0:44.4

improvement. Democrats hate their own congressional leaders. These numbers are awful, awful, awful.

0:51.8

Man, I thought it was going to be the other way around. That's why I said I'll risk it. That's three off. Why do you think that is, Tom? Why do you think that is? Because guess what? The core, you know, you look at the fringes, and what Bill Maher was talking about, the fringe, the fringe that got elected in New York City, and we're talking about the fringes. And the core, the core has sensibility.

1:12.4

Like we saw Bill Maher at his core speaking about a lot of what a lot of Americans feel.

1:17.8

Oh, impoverish a white middle class. There's a campaign slogan. He's right. And now what you

1:22.8

have here is the core of the Democrat Party does not like what they see. The core of the Democrats that are in

1:29.9

Iowa, and there's a lot of Democrats in Iowa, I'd love to see what do Iowa Democrats think about

1:35.0

AOC. You know what you're going to see? That's exactly what you're going to see. You want to go to

1:41.0

outside suburban Chicago, people that have been Mayor Daley, legacy Democrats for many, many years grew up in blue, but were not part of, you know, protest or things.

1:51.9

Asked them what they think of AOC, ask them what they think of Bernie.

1:54.6

You know what you get?

1:55.4

That.

1:56.1

That's exactly what it is.

1:57.3

There's a core that looks at it and goes, man, I don't like this. Just like

2:02.0

there's a core on the moderate Republicans right now that don't like what they see in what

2:06.7

they regard as, oh, this is military on the street, just picking people up because they don't

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