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Trumpland with Alex Wagner

Your Move, Dems

Trumpland with Alex Wagner

NBC News

News, Society & Culture

4.51.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Can the Democratic Party change course before it’s too late?

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0:00.0

They're also facing a very unique challenge in our poll right here.

0:09.2

The view voters have of each party, neither is good.

0:12.3

But look at the numbers here for Democrats, 27% positive, more than double, 55% negative.

0:20.1

This is what's happened to the Democrats since the election.

0:23.1

That was Steve Kornacki last month, explaining a March NBC news poll that showed Democrats' approval rating at the lowest it had been since 1990.

0:32.7

Now, things weren't great for Republicans either, but the Democrat score was really something.

0:38.6

That is astonishing, Steve. That's an historic low, right?

0:42.1

That is in more than 30 years of this poll. We've never seen either party hit a number this low in terms of negatives here.

0:48.6

One thing to note on this for the Democrats, too, a lot of that negative rating, it's coming from Democrats themselves. And a lot of that

0:55.4

is coming from Democrats who say the party is being too cooperative in their view with Donald Trump.

1:02.2

It's been nearly 100 days since Donald Trump was sworn back into office. And despite the utter chaos,

1:09.3

the lawlessness and controversy that has characterized these first days of a new administration, the Democratic Party, the opposition, is historically unpopular.

1:19.6

If you want to understand why that may be the case, remember this moment, also in March, when President Trump spoke before a joint session of Congress.

1:29.4

And these people sitting right here will not clap, will not stand, and certainly will not cheer for these astronomical achievements.

1:39.3

The resistance the Democrats mustered that night took the form of black paddles featuring phrases

1:45.5

including Save Medicaid and Musk steals.

1:50.2

Democrats held up the paddles at various moments during Trump's speech.

1:54.5

It did not go over well.

1:56.3

The bingo signs were killing me.

1:58.0

I don't know who's thought up the bingo signs, but they should be fired.

2:01.9

Michael, this is an indictment, in my opinion, on the Democratic leadership. The visuals are not

2:07.2

taken back the House in 2026. And then last month, the Democrats' main voice in the Senate,

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