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Speaker 2: Did you catch these two polls that came out over
the weekend, one from NBC News, the other from CNN
showing the Democrat Party's polling right now their favorability or
unfavorability with the American people. Now, this is not some
talk news spin. I want to read to you the
first couple of sentences from the NBC News article that
they published yesterday morning, Sunday around nine o'clock when they
released the poll. This is directly from nbcnews dot com.
No no conservative spin on this at all.
Speaker 3: Quote.
Speaker 2: The Democrat Party has reached an all time low in
popularity in the latest national NBC News poll as it
searches for a path forward after a painful loss to
President Donald Trump and as the party's voters spoil for
a fight between their leaders in Washington and Trump. Is
that not the most damning headline you've ever heard from
NBC News taking shots directly at the Democrat Party and
the details It makes sense. Just over a quarter of
registered voters, twenty seven percent, say they have a positive
view of the Democrat Party. Take a listen to this.
This is the lowest party's positivity rating in this NBC
News poll that they have been doing since nineteen ninety.
This isn't just some brand new poll that they made
up a couple of weeks ago. They have been asking
this question of both the Democrat and the Republican Party
now for thirty five years, and this is the lowest
that it's ever been. Twenty seven percent of registered voters
say they have a positive view of the party, with
just seven percent saying that their view is very positive.
So that's what NBC News had to say yesterday morning
with their poll that came out. We then flip over
to CNN, the illustrious cable news network. They've ran a
similar poll. They have been conducting their polls since two
thousand and six, specifically September twenty second of two thousand
and six, and the question was phrased a similar way,
question number one, We'd like to get your overall opinion
of some people in groups in the news. This is
how the pollsters asked the question. For each Please indicate
if you have a favorable or unfavorable opinion of these
people or groups, or if you've never heard of them.
When asked the Democrat Party, the favorable opinion was a
record low twenty nine percent, very similar to what you
saw in that NBC News poll. And once again, now
while this poll has not been going on since the nineties,
it has been going on since two thousand and six,
almost twenty years. This poll was conducted by SSRs Research.
Same thing, the lowest level that that's ever been. So
this got me thinking over the weekend, why is the
favorability opinion of the Democrat Party so low right now?
And obviously we're stuck in the news of the day today,
there's so much going on. You're heard in the news
break of the court order stopping the deportation flights, the
Trump administration going forward with it anyway, battle over a
shutdown late last week in Washington, DC. But I think
We've got to go back further than that, I think,
to truly understand why the favorability within the Democrat Party
is so low right now, We've got to go back
to prior to the election of last year, when you
had many Democrats that were sounding the alarm on what
was the final days of the Biden administration. Now, obviously
you're party loyalists. They operate the same way on both
the left and the right. They will carry the water
and stick with their party one percent of the time.
So we're not talking about those individuals. But as you
work towards the middle of the political spectrum, you've got
this group of voters that fall left fall right, depending
on their political makeup and the things that they believe in.
Those individuals were starting to call out what was a
failing administration and their concerns were pushed to the side.
Speaker 3: Their concerns were ignored.
Speaker 2: They were told to shut up, sit down, and just
get on the bus with everybody else. Don't make any
issues here, don't argue with us. We're the Democrat Party.
We know the best. So as we worked through the
summer of last year with Biden's failing mental health on
public display for everybody. Then, of course, the first disastrous
debate that took place. Next thing, you know, Biden's gone,
and those middle of the road Democrat voters, the ones
that are not the party loyalists but tend to vote
for Democrats in general and primary and various elections, midterms,
whatever it might be, those individuals who had voiced this
concern earlier were once again told to stop talking because
they didn't get a choice.
Speaker 3: As to who their candidate was.
Speaker 2: They didn't get to decide who was going to lead
their party in a major general election battle that we
saw play out in November of last year. They were
told the vice president, the very unpopular, very ineffective vice president,
in Vice President Harris, was going to be their pick.
They didn't have a say, they didn't get to vote,
they didn't have a choice. This is your candidate. She
was nominated queen of the Democrat Party overnight. Joe Biden's gone,
and here you've got Harris as your candidate. Imagine that
if you were one of those middle of the road,
maybe even moderate Democrat voters that was not super happy
with the Biden administration, was not happy with the upper
echelon of the Democrat party and the way they were operating.
How frustrating is that you knew Joe Biden wasn't up
to the task, yet you were told that your concerns
weren't valid. You were told that your concerns didn't matter.
You just needed to get in line with everybody else.
Here's the sheet of music, starts singing off of it,
Lo and behold those individuals. Well they happened to be right.
Joe Biden did, in fact drop out. He was not
the candidate who ran against Trump in the November general election.
So then Harris is the gal. She's the one. She's
the face of the Democrat Party, even though she's incredibly unpopular.
She refused to do media that touched American voters. She
refused to do shows like Joe Rogan and other various
interviews in media outlets that we as we I believe
saw play out in November were incredibly influential for the election,
and Democrats just had to continue to chug along. There
was nothing they could do at that point. The match
was already set, the race was already set, ballots were printed,
the contest was Trump v.
Speaker 3: Harris. That was it. So then we roll over to
election day.
Speaker 2: And while the polling looked pretty good for Trump, we
know political polls are not always the most accurate thing
in the world, and especially political polls dealing with somebody
like President Donald Trump. That's at the time, former President
Donald Trump. How were the polls going to handle him
the third time around? Had the pollsters figured out how
to pull Trump, had the pollsters figure out how to
deal with him in a presidential contest on a national stage.
There was a lot of uncertainty, a lot of questions.
There are times of the charm maybe who knows.
Speaker 3: And then, of.
Speaker 2: Course we saw what happened election night November twenty twenty four.
Harris lost all seven of the swing states. Democrats were
incapable of holding the Oval office. They gave up their
majority in the Senate. They were unsuccessful and taking away
the majority from Republicans in the House. Oh and by
the way, maybe I should mention this, Trump won the
popular vote for a Republican the first time in twenty years.
It's all of this setting the stage before we are
even turning the calendar into twenty twenty five, all of
this before Trump's even in office. I think that sheds
a little bit of insight into some of this polling.
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Speaker 2: We're talking about these two very interesting polls that came
out over the weekend, one from NBC News, the other
from CNN. The NBC News poll showed that just a
quarter of registered voters twenty seven percent, say they have
a positive view of the Democrat Party, which is the
lowest in the NBC News poll since ninth teen ninety
back when NBC News started asking this question and started
conducting this poll. And then a similar poll over at
CNN that asked individuals what they thought of the Democrat
Party and they were found to only have a twenty
nine percent favorability in the CNN poll. So both of
those polls combined the lowest ranking ever, the lowest percentage
ever for the favorability of the Democrat Party. And as
I went through in the first segment walking through a
couple of the reasons as to why Democrat voters might
be frustrated, all of this happened before Trump was even
in office. Right, you had the disastrous debate for Biden,
then him being quickly exited stage left, and then replaced
with the very unpopular vice president. She's supposed to be
the savior of the Democrat Party. She shows up in
early November and she gets her clocks clean. I mean,
the Democrat Party just gets shellacked. In the November election.
Trump wins seven of seven swing states. He wins the
popular vote, something he was unsuccessful and Republicans have been
unsuccessful in doing for twenty plus years now. Democrats lose
control of the Senate at a much larger margin than
they were supposed to, and by the way, Republicans retained
control of the House.
Speaker 3: So all of that.
Speaker 2: Together, we're now at the midway point through November early
part of December of last year. And you can imagine
if you're a Democrat putting those shoes on for just
a couple of minutes. I know it's tough, but put
yourself in the shoes of that Democrat voter. How frustrated
must you be with your party. You knew that there
was an issue, you knew maybe, and you took Trump
as a as a serious political threat, as opposition to
you and what you stand for as a Democrat, and
what your party beliefs are and what the party platform
and ideas are. You were told to ignore that he's illegitimate,
he's not serious. There's no chance he can win so
on and so forth, all of the typical Democrat talking points.
He's a convicted felon, he's a this, he's that. All
of that materialized to because Democrats could not convince the
American people that their ideas, their policies, their platforms were
better than that of Donald Trump and the Republicans. So
now we fast forward to the early part of this
year January twentieth to be exact, inauguration day for now
the forty seventh President of the United States Donald Trump.
Once again Democrats besides them beside themselves. You don't like Trump,
you weren't a fan of Trump, and now he's the guy.
He's the president, whether you like it or not. Now,
of course, some Democrats still screaming that the election was stolen,
but we'll ignore those those voices in the corner. He's
the president now. And what does he start doing day one?
He begins dismantling what Democrats have worked for decades to
put into effect, the complete and total government bureaucracy that
controls each and every element and facet of our day
to day lives. To the Democrats credit a very effective
tool that they have mastermind over a generation where they
have grown, the size of the federal government, grown, the
size of regulation, grown, the size of the bureaucracy to
the point where it's hard for you to operate your
life without dealing with the bureaucracy in one way or
the other. And of course, where does that bureaucracy fall
on the political spectrum, Well, it falls almost exclusively to
the left. Big government is controlled by and has been
controlled by, the radical left.
Speaker 3: You saw it.
Speaker 2: During Trump's first term twenty sixteen to twenty twenty. Now
at the time, there's a lot of talk from him
and other Republicans about draining the swamp. You heard that
a lot in the first term. It was a major
campaign promise he made to voters throughout twenty late latter
parts of twenty six twenty fifteen, and throughout the entire
election in twenty sixteen. But he was unsuccessful in truly
dre the swamp as to what he as he wanted
to do so as many Republican voters wanted him.
Speaker 3: To do so.
Speaker 2: As Trump unfortunately found out the hard way, the problem
was much bigger than he was maybe led on to believe.
The size and the scope of this liberal, progressive bureaucracy
was much bigger than he could even tackle, and in
his first term he did not have the right people
around him to do that. There was a bunch of
individuals that did not have Trump or the American people's
best interests at heart. When they decided they were going
to work with the new administration, they misled Trump, they
misled his advisors, and they didn't do the job they
needed to do. And so, while he did make some
inroads a little bit here, a little bit there in
regards to the over the oversized government bureaucracy, the regulation,
the red tape, the waste, the fraud, the abuse, wasn't enough.
He didn't have enough time, and he spent the first
two years of his administration fighting Paul and the Republicans
in the House because I of course didn't want to
work with the Republican president. What a novel concept working
with a guy that just won the presidential election for
your party, I know, what a wild idea working with
the a duly elected president.
Speaker 3: So within just.
Speaker 2: Days of Trump being sworn in the second time as
the forty seventh president of the United States, he begins
the process of dismantling what the Democrats have worked decades
to concoct. They have worked decades to install their people,
their political ideology, their agenda in every facet of the
federal government, from agencies like EPA to Social Security to Treasury,
all over federal government, their people exist. The only difference
now is that Trump and the people around him know
what their target is, and they have done a very
effective job at cut that out. They've done a very
effective job at relieving those individuals of their duty. And
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Speaker 2: We are continuing the discussion this afternoon about these two
polls out from one from NBC News the other from CNN,
showing the lowest to favorability rating amongst the Democrat Party
in the case of the NBC News poll thirty five
years in the case of the CNN poll, going back
to two thousand and six, almost twenty years that that
party has seen its favorability at the lowest level that
it is right now. So this brings us to where
we were in the middle and latter part of last week,
where Democrats had a big decision to make do they
keep open the government or do they shut it down?
You heard all the WBT hosts talking about it last week.
House Republicans worked with the Trump administration to come up
with a continuing resolution, which I'll admit is not perfect.
Not a fan of a CR, but that's what that's
the cards that we got dealt. That's what we're dealing with.
So Republicans work with Trump, they get a CR put together,
they pass it in the House. They don't need the
Democrats support to do so. Republicans have the majority in
the House, simple majority vote wins, They passed it, and
it goes on to the Senate. Now, while Republicans do
have control and do have the majority in the Senate,
they don't have sixty votes, which is what they need
to pass something like a continuing resolution. So this brought
forward a very interesting question for the leader of the
US Senate in Chuck Schumer, at least from the Democrat
side of the aisle, the minority leader in Chuck Schumer,
had to decide what did he want to do now.
Wednesday of last week, Tuesday, Wednesday of last week, you
heard from Schumer that it wasn't going to happen. He
was not going to vote for a continuing resolution. As
the days went on, as we got closer to the
Friday midnight deadline when the government was set to shut down,
to close down at least on a temporary basis without
this continuing resolution, this stop gap funding bill put in place,
well old Chucky Schumer's tune started to change and he
came out in public made a statement that said and
claimed that he was going to vote for the continuing
Resolution and that he was encouraging his Senate colleagues on
the Democrat side of the aisle to do the exact
same thing. And from a political standpoint, speaking purely political optics, political,
you know the game that we all talk about, we
all love, we all enjoin, most of us do.
Speaker 3: That was a smart move.
Speaker 2: He needed to move forward with the continuing Resolution. There
was no amount of media spin. There was no amount
of running to MSNBC or CNN cameras and blaming the
Republicans for the shutdown. That was going to make this
problem good for the Democrats. Republicans are in charge, they
passed it in the House, they had all of their
votes in the Senate. If the government shut down on Friday,
it was exclusively one party and one party's fault. That
was Chuck Schumer and the Democrats in the United States Senate.
There is no amount of dressing up, putting lipstick on
the pig that is going to change that for Senate Democrats.
Speaker 3: Change that.
Speaker 2: For the American media and for the American public. There's
always an attempt because the mainstream media is such a
powerful tool for the left. They always have this ability
to spin the narrative right. We've seen this for generations now,
we've seen the ability for them to take something and
spin it into their fail from a political standpoint, they've
been very successful.
Speaker 3: At using media.
Speaker 2: The media establishment, whether that be ABC, CBS, NBC now
with the invention of cable news, CNN and MSNBC, use
these tools, use these avenues and vehicles of media to
tell the American people what is not the truth. Tell
the American people that even though Democrats voted against a
continuing resolution, it was those gosh darn Republicans that shut
the government down. They've been successful at doing that in
the past. But I think Chuck Schumer, contrary to what
if you like him or not, he's a smart political operator.
Speaker 3: He knows the game.
Speaker 2: He's been in it long enough to know how this
was going to play out for him. And I'll note
the polls that we're talking about this afternoon, all of
these were conducted well before this cr vote took place
on Friday. Around was at five six o'clock Friday when
the Senate passed the Continuing Resolution. All these polls were
already in the field before that. So this was before
the ciarvo. And so as he came out boldly and
spoke against or spoke in favor of the Continuing Resolution,
claiming that the Democrats will have more power with the
government open than by shutting it down, something very interesting happened,
something that we have not seen to take place on
the public political stage in quite some time. You had
in fighting within the Democrat Party taking place publicly. One thing,
if you want to give the Democrat Party credit for anything,
one thing you absolutely have to give them credit for
is their ability to work out issues behind the scenes,
their ability to work out issues behind closed doors. Have
the knockout, drag out battle, but do it privately? Do
you do behind the scenes and then emerge a unified front.
Democrats are incredibly good at doing that. Republicans not so much.
We see their knockout, drag out battles in public and
making a complete and total mockery of the GOP and
their agenda. Democrats don't operate in that manner, at least
they haven't until Thursday and Friday of last week. Chuck
Schumer says, I'm voting for this continuing resolution. I'm encouraging
my Democrats senate colleagues to do the same. And just
like that snap of the finger, you've got Democrats in
the House calling out Chuck Schumer. I'd like to read
you a quote from the former Speaker of the United
States House in Nancy Pelosi, everybody's favorite representative from San Francisco.
This is what she put out in a statement on
Friday morning. Donald Trump and Elon Musk have offered the
Congress a false choice between a government shutdown or a
blank check that makes a devastating assault on well being
of working American families. Across the country. Let's be clear,
neither is a good option for the American people. But
this false choice that some are buying instead of fighting
is unacceptable. End quote. The false choice that some are
buying instead of fighting is unacceptable. That is a complete
pot shot at Chuck Schumer. That is calling out her colleagues,
her friends in the United States Senate over not voting
or not stonewalling the Continuing Resolution and voting against it.
And she wasn't the only one. We heard some similar
comments as well from Hakim Jeffries.
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Speaker 2: Spending a lot of time talking about these two disastrous
polls for the Democrat Party released over the weekend, one
from CNN, the other from NBC News, showing that the
Democrat Party's unfavorability is or their favorability rather is the
lowest that it's been in case of the NBC News
poll thirty five years, the CNN poll almost twenty years.
And this is ahead of what you saw on Friday,
which was the first time that at least I've seen
at a big level Democrats fighting publicly. You had Chuck
Schumer who was encouraging his Senate colleagues to vote in
favor of the continuing Resolution to keep the government open,
and you had the Democrats in the House speaking against it.
You heard I read the quote from Nancy Pelosi. I'll
read the final part of it again. This is directly
from the former Speaker of the US House quote. This
false choice is that the false choice that some are
buying instead of fighting is unacceptable, calling out Chuck Schumer.
And here's a quick audio clip of Hakeem Jefferys saying
a very similar thing. He held a press conference about
three or four hours ahead of the vote in the
US Senate on Friday. This is what Hakim Jeffries had
to say about the shutdown.
Speaker 4: A general view is that we do not want to
shut down the government, but we are not afraid of
a government funding showdown, and we will win that showdown.
Speaker 2: And that's calling out Chuck Schumer. Hakim Jeffries, the leader
of the Democrats in the House, says that he's not
afraid of a shutdown and if there's going to be
a public showdown over that, Democrats will win. I think
Hajakim Jeffries is dead wrong about that. I think when
you look at what just happened in November of last year,
I don't think the American people and this polling, which
again we didn't have at the time when these clips
in this back and forth was happening on Friday. The
polling indicates that the American public is not a fan
of the Democrat.
Speaker 3: Party right now.
Speaker 2: The polling indos especially for those middle of the road
voters that voted for split government. And now those folks
do exist. I've coined the term a ping pong voter
to describe these individuals. As they work their way down
the ballot, they check off some Republicans, check off some Democrats.
They exist, and they exist in large part here in
North Carolina. As of course, our largest voting block is
unaffiliated voters across the Tar Hill State. So those people
do exist. And when they vote for split government, that
means they want individuals to work together. They want Democrats
and Republicans to come together and work on issues like
a government shutdown. Now, obviously, when you get to the
hyper partisan, the hyper political issues, I don't think individuals
expect there to be some big Kumbaya moment where Republicans
and Democrats all of a sudden agree on everything from
a policy standpoint together, but on something like this continuing
resolution keeping the government open until September of this year. Voters,
especially those middle of the road ones, want Democrats to
work with Republicans. That's what this polling indicates. So I
think Hakeem Jefferies assertion here that if the government was
shut down, which is what he was in favor of,
you know, it's easy for him. But his vote and
his Democrats vote in the US House didn't matter whether
he voted for it or against it. It was going
to pass right. It's very easy to make a vote
when your decision doesn't really have any impact at all,
when your vote doesn't really carry any weight. So he's
throwing shade at Chuck Schumer, He's throwing shade at the
ten Senate Democrats that voted in favor of this cr.
He thinks that he's going to win the showdown, as
he calls it in the public sphere. I'm not sure
that's the case. I think that's a big issue and
a big miscalculation from Hakeem Jeffries coming up. So that's
what we're tracking there on the government shutdown. I'll have
some more details coming up here in jeff a few minutes.
Speaker 1: All right, that'll do it for this episode.
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