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🗓️ 19 March 2025
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0:00.0 | I'm John Batchel with Elizabeth Peek, columnist at the Hill, |
0:07.4 | columnist at Fox News. |
0:08.5 | We turn from the American economy to American politics in polls. |
0:12.8 | Now, I have become accustomed over decades to expect Republicans to poll very badly. |
0:18.8 | When they win elections, when they lose elections, afterwards, 10 years later, it doesn't matter. |
0:23.9 | They poll badly. |
0:25.0 | I've gotten used to it. |
0:26.0 | So that if they poll well, I think this poll is no good. |
0:29.6 | However, Liz, the polling you're writing up right now does resemble what happened to Richard Nixon. |
0:36.2 | Wasn't he in the 20s when he resigned from office, |
0:38.9 | as I recall? You know, I'm trying to think what, I don't know that that's true. Well, maybe it is |
0:46.2 | true. I don't know because I keep remembering that Jimmy Carter was the most unpopular president ever, |
0:50.9 | and I think that includes Richard Nixon so but but it is amazing where |
0:55.3 | democrats find themselves and this is an NBC poll I would talking about but CNN poll uh came out a day |
1:01.3 | later which basically shows the same thing never before has the Democrat party in in terms of |
1:07.8 | at least the last 30 or 40 years been as unpopular as they are right now. |
1:11.7 | And it's honestly, it's a pretty shocking thing. And I think they just literally have no |
1:16.1 | idea what to do about it. In the NBC poll, their approval ratings 27%. And so I saw somebody, |
1:24.0 | I don't know where, somebody at the hill or something, try and write a saying that, well, |
1:33.2 | political parties generally aren't very popular. The Republicans are 39% right in that poll. So I don't think this is, this is not a mistake or sort of an odd thing that's happened. |
1:39.4 | I do think Democrats find themselves with no message and no leadership. And I don't think they know |
1:45.9 | what to do about this. In other words, do they continue to hue to the far left, which is where |
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