A new Gallup poll reveals that following recent election setbacks, Democrats are increasingly favoring a more moderate party platform. Simultaneously, Republican support for maintaining the party's current ideological stance has grown. The poll suggests these shifts may be driven by Democrats' 2024 election losses and Republicans' consolidation under Donald Trump's leadership.
After the Democratic Party's well-publicized setbacks in November's elections, a new national poll indicates Democrats increasingly want their party to moderate by moving toward the center. And the survey, from Gallup, also suggests an increasing percentage of Republicans support the GOP staying the same ideologically.
A plurality of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents — 45% — who were questioned in the survey said they want their party to become more moderate. That's up 11 percentage points since 2021, at the start of former President Biden's single term in the White House. DEMOCRATS FORCED TO DEFEND ANOTHER OPEN SENATE SEAT IN 2026 MIDTERM ELECTIONS 'At the same time, Democrats’ and leaners’ desire for a more liberal party has declined five points, to 29%, and preferences for no change in party ideology have fallen nine points, to 22%,' the release from Gallup noted. The poll was conducted Jan. 21-27 in the immediate aftermath of President Donald Trump's inauguration and at the start of his second tour of duty in the White House. WHAT AMERICANS THINK ABOUT TRUMP'S FIRST THREE WEEKS IN OFFICE Trump recaptured the presidency in November, and Republicans won back the Senate majority while the Democrats failed to win back control of the House of Representatives from the GOP. Republicans made significant gains among Black and Hispanic voters, as well as younger voters, all traditional members of the Democratic Party's base. Gallup notes that the Democrats' 'current sentiment may very well be a reaction to their losses in 2024, as they look ahead to 2026.' The Gallup poll indicates that support among Republicans and GOP-leaning independents for the party to stay ideologically the same jumped nine points, from 34% in 2021 to 43% now. Meanwhile, those desiring a more conservative party plunged 12 points, to 28%. 'The 27% of Republicans and leaners who now prefer moderation for their party is not significantly different from 2021,' the poll's release noted. But the poll indicates that two-thirds of Republicans and Republican-leaning voters self-identify as conservative, with 31% seeing themselves as moderate and just 2% calling themselves liberal. Since his first election to the presidency in 2016, Trump has held immense sway over Republicans and has transformed the GOP from a conservative-dominated party to a more populist party of loyalists who strongly support Trump's 'America First' agenda. The release of the Gallup poll comes a couple of weeks after another national survey spelled trouble for the Democrats. Only 31% of respondents in a Quinnipiac University survey conducted last month had a favorable opinion of the Democratic Party, with 57% seeing the party in an unfavorable light. CLICK TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP 'This is the highest percentage of voters having an unfavorable opinion of the Democratic Party since the Quinnipiac University Poll began asking this question,' the survey's release noted. Meanwhile, 43% of those questioned had a favorable view of the GOP, with 45% holding an unfavorable opinion, which was the highest favorable opinion for the Republican Party ever in Quinnipiac polling.
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