Former Dem Operative Lays Bare the Party's Problems in a Scathing Review

The news has not been good for the Democrats lately.

Last week, the Congressional Democrats were at 19 percent approval, with 72 percent disapproval in Quinnipiac polling. That's the lowest number they've been at since Quinnipiac started asking the question in 2009).

They also have horrible financial donation numbers, at this point, compared to Republicans.

On top of that, new polling shows that 53 percent of Gen Z men now identify as Republican. Overall, more people identify as Republican, with 46 percent identifying as Republican, while 45 percent identify as Democrat. That's a big change from 2008, when Democrats were at 51 percent and Republicans, at 39 percent.

New Polling Shows Great News for GOP, Bad News for Dems That Will Bring a Lot of Liberal Tears

Former Democratic operative, now co-host of the podcast "The Morning Meeting," Dan Turrentine, summed up how bad it was for the Democrats, during an appearance on Fox's "Jesse Watters Primetime." "We obviously have a ton of problems," he admitted, as they showed a video of Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) looking out of it.

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"We have no agenda whatsoever. If we were to get power, I couldn't tell you what we'd want to do."

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"We have no agenda whatsoever. If we were to get power, I couldn't tell you what we'd want to do."
"We are getting our butts kicked raising money. The RNC this past month has $83 million on hand — we have $13 million.

Turrentine said he couldn't believe the money the Dems are pouring out, "The outside groups? We're spending $20 million to understand men?"

He chastised the navel-gazing, "I don't know how many autopsies we have on one dead body." That's harsh, but true, and they're still not getting it.

But he didn't have to say much - he nailed it in his first comment: "We have no agenda whatsoever." All they do is attack President Donald Trump and embrace illegal aliens. That's not an agenda. It's why people, including young men, are going over to the Republicans.

Turrentine acknowledged what he thinks is the biggest issue. "The worst thing is, Jesse, on voter registration," he explained. President Donald Trump had a surge in registrations, he said, which used to be a Democratic strength. "We're now lagging behind in all these swing states," he warned. "If we can’t raise money and we can’t register new voters, we're going to have a big problem." As it was, they lost all the swing states in 2024 to Trump.

Turrentine even noted on his podcast that the Democrats are getting nervous about whether New Jersey may be turning red and could become a swing state. If that happens, they may just be cooked.

Turrentine is one of the few people willing to be honest about the problems.

That should be setting off warning bells for them. I do think they are freaking out. But they don't seem to be putting together that agenda or truly changing their approach. Until they do, they're going to remain at sea.

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