AMAC Exclusive by: Shane Harris
It looks as if Democrats just now realized there’s an election next year. After months of repeated appeals from pollsters, consultants, and former officials, Congressional Democrats finally appear to be hearing the warnings that their party and their message is not resonating with voters. But with the party still firmly in the grip of radical progressive politicians and donors, Democrats may have already sealed their fate for 2022.
According to a new poll commissioned by the party’s own campaign arm, the Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee, Democrats are trailing Republicans by 6 points on a generic ballot among likely voters in swing districts. Those results, particularly on the economy, which 55% of respondents said they did not trust Democrats to handle, have rightly alarmed Congressional Democrats. One Democratic member was quoted as saying that the numbers looked “pretty dismal,” while Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) said bluntly “we’re not breaking through.”
But for many Democrats who bill themselves as moderates, the results of the poll are hardly surprising. In fact, they confirm what a number of longtime Democratic commentators have been saying for months about the perils of the ever-increasing leftward tilt of the Democratic Party.
Liberal pollster Stan Greenberg, for example, warned in May that data showed “Democrats are at risk of repeating 2020 if they do not prioritize defusing and neutralizing” Republican messaging on issues like crime, immigration, and the culture war. Greenberg also noted that GOP voters remained largely unified behind President Trump and that “Republicans are following the political theater much more closely than are Democrats.”
Bill Maher, host of Real Time with Bill Maher and a frequent outspoken critic of Republicans and President Trump, didn’t mince words when characterizing Democrats’ image issues following the 2020 election: “Democrats are the party of every hypersensitive social justice warrior woke bullshit story in the news.” Maher also hit Democrats for being weak on crime, saying that people voted for Trump “because your side [Democrats] thinks silence is violence and looting is not.”
Even David Shor, a self-described socialist and whiz kid pollster on the left, recognized the unsustainability of Democrats’ progressive messaging, saying that their “current electoral coalition is not consistent with wielding legislative power.” As AMAC Newsline reported earlier this year, Shor also warned that if Democrats don’t radically transform democracy with anti-democratic initiatives like H.R. 1, they “will almost certainly lose control of the federal government and not be in a position to pass laws again potentially for a decade.”
A rare moment of self-reflection also took place within the Democratic House caucus last November, with Majority Whip Jim Clyburn warning that Democrats are “not going to win” if they run on socialist policies again. Freshman Democrat Conor Lamb of Pennsylvania further urged his party to moderate, saying that policies like defunding the police “aren’t just unpopular, they’re completely unrealistic.”
Even before their disastrous House campaign in 2020, some voices within the party expressed concern about growing Democrat radicalism in a number of policy areas. During the 2020 Democratic primary, liberal journalist Albert Hunt advised Democrat primary voters to “KO Sanders” in order to “avoid November catastrophe.” Among other issues, Hunt cited Sanders’ proposals to “end private health insurance, impose big taxes, [and] ban all fracking,” as well as “his empathy for some left-wing dictators [and] changing positions on gun control and immigration” as a sure bet to sink Democrats’ chances in the general election.
Democratic primary voters apparently agreed with Hunt’s analysis, handing the nomination to Joe Biden instead. But, incredibly, soon after defeating Sanders precisely because he was a progressive, Biden released a “Biden-Sanders Progressive Unity Platform,” a clear sign of just how radical his administration would, and has, become – and how far supposedly “moderate” candidates like Biden feel they need to go to appease progressives.
Many Democrats have also privately expressed fears that the party indeed appears to be held hostage by a radical group of ultra-left members of Congress and their allies in the media who increasingly drive public policy. Evidence of this alliance was on full display just this past week, when Congresswoman Cori Bush (D-MO), a member of the so-called “Squad,” slept on the steps of the Capitol for three nights to “protest” the end of the eviction moratorium, which her party had wisely planned on allowing to expire. Instead, the media rallied around Bush, lionizing her cause and, amid outcry from a small but vocal minority, Biden defied the Supreme Court and extended the moratorium. So much for moderation.
Ultimately, anything can happen on Election Day next year. While paths for Democrats to keep their majorities may be slim, they are not nonexistent. If Republicans do retake Congress, it will likely be through continuing to highlight the radical direction of the Democratic Party and by targeting Democrats’ actual governing record, forcing them to defend their policies that have thus far been anything but moderate and have failed the country and its people.
There are no moderate Democrats.
All that does not change the fact they are expert cheaters. They stuff ballot boxes, flood absentee ballots and change the results of electronic voting machines. They will stop at nothing in their cheating, they are the biggest defranchiers of all time. They did it once and will do it again.
Keep up the good work commie Dems, I keep praying that you go down!!!!
Ron White would say – “Can’t fix stupid”!!! The only thing that saves these idiot demslibs is the fact that their are so many just as stupid as they are!!!
I never, ever vote for Democrats!!! However, I fear two things. 1. The Republicans will try to steer to the left (beware the RINOs) and 2. that the Democrats will steal the 2022 election. If we cannot have fair and free elections, then the republic is finished.
The best thing that came out of Trump’s presidency is that the RINOs finally felt brave enough to show us their true faces. You would not believe the texts I get multiple times a day from the RNC. Insulting, condescending appeals for more dollars. I made a decision shortly after the election that: a. I would never vote for an establishment republican; b. I would never give one dime again to the RNC, when Trump finally came out with the two places to send my money..that’s where it went and c. Never take crap from my dim friends and family, they will get as good as they gave from me. Normal politeness does not work on them, hammer them with facts. Then when they get stupid, laugh in their faces. Whew my life feels better all ready.
A vote for a Democrat is a vote against America!
I am a dyed in the wool republican, and I would LOVE to take back the House and Senate in “22, but it is way too early to start counting our seats. There is a lot of hard work and campaigning to do. Don’t be fooled by democrat media, and almost all of it is.
But before they sink; it is sad to see that some republicans in the Senate are helping the Dems to get some cash $1.2T, The end result will be “cash for trash” because the Dems do not know how to use money wisely.
Another 2020 for Democrats? You mean 2010. 2 years back in power with gross overreach = 63 lost House seats.
While I don’t much trust polls of any kind, perhaps this will be one that really serves as a predictor of future outcomes. Pollsters are often party line pundits with an agenda….with skewed numbers and commentary that is designed to influence, not simply share numerical fact. Most polls are as useless at “you-know-whats” on a boar. But maybe this poll will cause for pause, but I doubt it. If you must, Trafalgar Group has a good record of polling……and they don’t much care who the poll slams or champions….they just tell it…..come what may. And their pretty accurate.
They’ll just start lying like the Devil (more than usual) to try and fool everyone into voting for them. Just like Pelosi the other day talking to the press and saying “I’m not so much into making college free. What about the families that don’t have a child in college or they don’t want to go to college?”. She’s said for years she wants to pay for it/cancel student debt but is now lying and saying she’s not for it.
If they “tank” and I hope they do, couldn’t happen to a better group of people.
Cash out the IRA before the tax rates triple. Spend the dough while it still buys something.
Democrats may find out that, no matter how much free stuff they promise some people will still vote against them I’m a senior on Medicare and I’m just fine with paying for dental and eyecare myself.
No way will the Dems lose. They have bought every vote in every interest group by giving them FREE STUFF and with no need to work! We are doomed!
You can’t vote in Republicans when the voting system itself is corrupt.
Any political party which considers the idea of balancing the budget “radical” is in fact dangerously radical.
American people need to wake up and realize if they don’t take back the Senate and Congress in the house our country is in trouble look at all the flare in the world China and Russia and all them charming up cuz I know we have a weak president and a weak government
Wickedness knows no bounds. Let’s stand up against them, but also pray for them. Such were some of us, before God changed us!!!
You’re wrong about taxes. There is very strong support in the country for raising taxes on the rich. It’s mostly the social issues that are going to clobber the Democrats.
And with that Patriot Will, it is my fervent hope they get a well deserved wakeup call the moment those AZ audits are made public, some say this coming Monday…
These sycophantic Democrats & RINO’s have been stealing from America for decades now & it took a Donald Trump to bring it all to the surface for ALL to see…
There is a storm brewing & I say hold on, it’s gonna be a wild ride!
In conclusion, whatever the final outcome, those Venezuelan counting machines & associated software will get the DEEP SIX & never allowed into America again, amen…
Bill on the Hill… :~)
This article is good, but it does not clearly state what the democrats are up to. The party is being exposed for what they really are, radical progressives/leftists, and its biggest problem is some of them won’t shut up and let the party continue its stealth approach to “transforming America”. The American left can’t sell their policies to a majority of citizens and their loony loud mouths can’t help themselves from thinking this is their moment to succeed, whether America likes it or not! May they burn in Hell for their treachery!
IF the R’s (bad as they are) take the house and senate, IMPEACHMENT should begin DAY 1.
Socialism is a deadly disease that ultimately kills the host. Let us hasten that process (politically) for the infected few, thus saving the rest of country.
I cannot fathom how any thinking American can vote for a Democrat(Liberal/Progressive). Their far left agenda is in the process of destroying the country from within. There is simply no compromise in their governing philosophy, “it is my way or the highway). In contrast to the “live and let live mindset of the average conservative. I am 77 years old and probably won’t be around for the end game, but my children and 11 grandchildren will be. I can see in their future a radical leftist regime not, to different from Venezuela, Cuba or China. I fear for my country and all my fellow citizens that the liberal ideology.will ruin the”last, best hope for a free world”.
These people don’t know how to do anything buy lie, cheat and dig up dirt on people who oppose them. They have no idea how to manage anything, much less run a country. I’ll be Pelosi can’t even balance her own check book. This is the biggest group of economically challenged derelicts I’ve ever seen.
The Dems already have a solution. It’s called ‘Electoral Fraud’ aided by a criminally compliant MSM and bureaucracy (and Judiciary at a state level). It’s worked for years in Ca and was supremely effective in 2020 when ratcheted up to a national scale. Just need to make a few tweaks for the mid-terms so that all those voting machines are primed to ensure they produce the ‘correct’ result regardless of who the rube voter thinks they are voting for. Those whose job it is to program and maintain voting machines promise Dems that the most likely of electoral losses following years of bad polls can be excised and turned around in an instant with a bit of clever code writing. Look, nobody’s been called out on it so far and any whimpers from the handful of non-Dem sources can be easily neutralized by an MSM who have proven time and again that they can be relied on to make bad news for Dems even when on a Watergate scale simply disappear from public consciousness just like Hunter’s laptop and Joe’s sleazy influence peddling.
I see a lot of people responding the same as 85% of the American people do
To me the Republican Party are talk but no action
Example:
Why do they allow the Southern Border to be overrun by people coming in illegal from countries from all over the world
They should impeach Biden and Harris
This is a National Security Disaster
And it keeps going
The Southern states Texas, Arizona are fighting on there own with no support
The Dems want no voter ID so these people can vote Democrate
The Dems impeached President Trump over a phone call with the President of Ukrain
I know 100% sure America will win from Biden en Harris on this not crisis but Disaster
The 20% of the Dems that are doing this are part of the Biden Harris criminal organization
It is time to take action and put these people behind bars
This was just 2 examples of many
Unless election fraud is stopped, all this discussion does not matter. Donald Trump is the rightful President now. Georgia senators should be both Republican. If we don’t have honest elections, then everyone should cheat. A president election that had one billion total votes for president would show what is really happeing.
We really do need a new conservative party to emerge.
The GOP-Elites are simply progressives with an “R” next to their names.
Liz Chaney and Mitt Romney are pathetic examples of this sell-out blue nosed club.
The reuslts of the next election are probably already known by those that engineer the cheating.
I’m from New Jersey, and I have seen voter fraud in local, county and state elections mainly with the help of “found ” ballots after election day. The Republicans go to court and the Democrat judges allow the newly discovered ballots. After watching this on a grand scale in the 2020 election, I realize that the Republican Party is doomed to be loyal opposition to the Democrats and the Judiciary.of 2022
If you can believe the Republicans, they are all excited about 2022. Even Texas can’t get a law on voter ID, being held hostage by the Democrat boycott of their legislative session. Biden will announce that we have to have mail in ballots for everyone come the summer 2022, due to Covid variant 125. Be sure to wear your mask while coloring in the little boxes.
The Republican leadership and most of the party are like the French generals of WWI. They are living well and telling the troops in the trenches (us) that we are winning. Sorry, I’m deserting!
the Democrats will fix the election so don’t get excited. I am in CA and went to renew my driver’s license. The prompt asked if I wanted to register to vote. I have been voting for the last 50 yrs as a Republican but I could not move on to the next question till I agree to register. What is going on?
Maybe the DEMs will elect Cori Bush as their next president. She sure represents their party and the platform. lol !
I certainly hope the Democrats loose both the House and Senate in 2022. If they hold on, either by hook or by crook, the Republic will spiral downward out of existence. We will be a modern day example of how bad policy and incompetent politicians can destroy an empire like the Romans did in 476 AD.
Until the Rinos grow some, Biden already said it is not who votes but who counts the votes.
Democrat politicians are irrelevant in my neck of the woods; they should be elsewhere, also…
Deb Dingel, ‘We’re not breaking through’, her name says it all. That’s right dingbat, you can make fake ballots, but the ballots can’t make up the polls! Thanks RNC, for bringing us the United States of Socialism in the minority! Talk about idiots! DNC, RNC, you just can’t tell the difference.
So I guess this means the Dems will have to double-down on their cheating at the polls the next cycle.
It’s TOTALLY irrelevant what polls say. The deep-state has a firm grip on SELECTION.
Remember what Carlin said decades ago, which numerous elections have proven: Leaders are NOT elected, they are selected.
No can do this much damage in such a short period of time accidently. It is on purpose. The southern border is not just letting in Latinos it is letting in people from around the world that can’t get in any other way. In particular young men between 16 and 35. Then they are being sent to different cities around the US. What for? To me it looks like an army … and not a good one.
Watch how quickly the chameleons change direction in order to stay in office & in their cushy job. They will begin to make excuses for previous statements including, I never said that, or I was mis-quoted. These international money grabbing bums, and many of their self serving foes on the other side of the isle, need to be thrown out of office and some put in jail for treason.
IF they are “tanking” then they should just plain QUIT! …RESIGN! …Move to a Communist Nation! Even slash their own wrists! … I will furnish the razor blades… rusty ones!
Biden is pleading on TV this week to please get vaccinated —- and then he is completely ignoring the migration across the Southern Border that is testing positive & moving around USA. Vaccinate a couple more people & let a thousand not vaccinated come across border does not compute to a good ending
I cannot think of anything under Biden Administration that is making America better. Biden policies are actually hurting America & will make us a weak country in the future. All electric cars by 2030 is not realistic for average American & is Socialist idea. Is the chip shortage real or just fabricated so that automakers cannot sell cars this year.
As much as we would like to see. I doubt they are tanking.
Need to discount anything these socialist/marxists say. They are the scum of the earth and only look to maintain their regime and keep themselves in power. Never trust them on all accounts.
It doesn’t matter. Polls, votes (voters), campaigning. None of it is needed anymore. The democrats own the system. They can make the numbers come out any way they please. Winners and losers are chosen before the match even starts. It’s like the TV wrestling matches.