Democrats See Problems Ahead As Voting Base Flees The Party

More than 1 million Democrats have switched parties in the past year, marking a serious problem for the Democratic Party. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

More than a million Democrats have switched parties in the past year, making a, it's really creating a serious problem for the Democratic party. Farron, what is your take? This, this to me, if I'm a Democrat looking at it, I'm, I'm seeing the suburban swing votes that are leaving the Democratic party. That's what's happening.

Yeah. This is terrifying for the Democratic party. It's also 100% predictable. We have seen a Democratic party that's been in power now for 18 months. We just concluded the 18th month. So what have they done? What have they done to show you that they, they understand your problems? That they're addressing the issues? And the answer is unfortunately for these voters, nothing at all. Their lives have, in fact, gotten worse, you know, economically, you know, politically with as divided as we are. And they looked at this and they said, look, I'm not gonna be a part of your club anymore because the public always does that. Right. They bounce back and forth every two years or so. That's natural. But not in these numbers.

This is, this is different. This is different.

It truly is.

Well, you're seeing it in Denver, Atlanta, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Iowa. I thought the study was interesting. It was done by the AP and they really spent a lot of time trying to figure out what are these things, according, I'm just going from the study. But they found it that there's this rejection of this woke leftist thing that the Democrats came in and tried, tried to sell. Okay. In other words, in other words, deal with, don't deal with trying to reshape culture in 18 months, you know, don't try to, don't try to force something down my throat in 18 months that I don't wanna listen to. Talk about politics, engage in good political change, do some good stuff for us. And, and that's all they had to do here, but it, it's kinda like the same, I don't know if you followed the deal with, with Netflix, same thing's happening with Netflix. They're finding that all of this effort by Netflix to reshape culture, let's, let's change the way people think about this cultural issue. That's where Netflix is getting killed right now. And there's an exodus of left, of, of Netflix because people wanna be entertained. And the same thing with politics. They just want politicians to talk about politics that improve their lives. They don't wanna, they don't wanna be preached to about cultural change.

Well, here's the interesting thing about that too and you're not wrong about people, you know, leaving the party about that obviously. But the Democrats are not actually pushing that. What, what's being pushed is the Republicans pretending that the Democrats are pushing this.

Ah, okay.

And then trying to, you know, and not trying, they are passing all of this culture war legislation.

Right.

Addressing problems that aren't actually real, but the legislation now creates a lot of problems.

So in other words, it's not,

It's a messaging issue and the Democrats failed

Okay. The me, your point being, it's not the Democrats that woke up one day and said, hey, let's force feed the American public these cultural changes. These, the way that we think about our culture. Let's force feed them that. You're saying that that wasn't really part of the intent, but the Republicans have done a good job taking that and making the American people believe this is what the Democrats are doing. Did I get that right?

Yeah. And they obviously put the Democrats on their heels on these issues. So then the Democrats, when they talk about them, the Republicans can then highlight it and say, see, look. Now they're shoving it down your throat again. It, it's honestly, from a political standpoint, not saying I agree with any of it.

Mm-hmm.

It's a smart strategy.

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