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Scott Jennings Explains How Dems ‘Dug Themselves The Deepest Hole’ In Their History

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Republican strategist Scott Jennings explained on “The PBD Podcast” Tuesday why he believes the Democratic Party has cratered to historic lows.

The Wall Street Journal published a poll on Friday finding that the Democratic Party’s favorability rating is just 33% while its unfavourability rating is 63%, marking the highest percentage for the party in the outlet’s polling since 1990. Jennings argued on the podcast that a combination of former President Joe Biden’s presidency and Democrats’ “cultural radicalism” caused their plunge in popularity.

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“Democrats — because of the Biden presidency, because they lied about Joe Biden’s condition, because they lied to the country about the inflationary impacts of his policies — have dug themselves the deepest hole they’ve ever been in in the history of their party,” Jennings said. “That’s number one.”

“Number two, cultural radicalism,” he continued. “When the hills you’re willing to die on are boys in girls’ sports, paying for transgender surgeries of inmates — which [former Vice President] Kamala Harris had in the last election — when you’re willing to die on these hills, when you’re willing to go and say ‘Maryland man unfairly deported back to his home country’ — I mean, when you’re willing to die on all these 80/20 hills, eventually your approval rating will wind up — I’m no mathematician — but around 20. They’re getting there.”

Nearly 80% of Americans believe that biological males shouldn’t be permitted to play women’s sports, according to a January New York Times/Ipsos poll. Yet only two House Democrats voted in favor of the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act in January — which would bar biological males from competing in female sports.

Moreover, Senate Democrats in March blocked the bill, with 45 voting to defeat a cloture vote on it.

Portraying Harris and the Democratic Party as excessively far left on transgender issues was also one of the most potent advertising campaigns in boosting backing for President Donald Trump and Republican candidates down the ballot during the 2024 election, according to multiple reports.

One particularly effective Trump campaign ad showed Harris expressing past support for taxpayer-funded sex changes for transgender prison inmates and illegal immigrants.

“And so this hole they’ve dug themselves in — like, if I can’t trust you not to put a boy in my daughter’s locker room, why would I talk to you about taxation policy or inflation or tariffs or anything else?” Jennings asked. “You’re trying to put a boy in my girl’s locker room. Why?”

A July 17 CNN poll also found that Democrats have a favorability rating of 28%, marking the lowest percentage for the party in the outlet’s polling since 1992.