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A new CNN poll has found that the Democrat Party is facing its lowest ratings in more than three decades.
The poll, conducted for CNN by SSRS Opinion Panel, also found that the majority of people on the right believe supporting President Donald Trump is central to being a Republican.
A 58 percent majority of Democrats and Democrat-leaning independents reported believing the Democrat Party needs “major changes, or to be completely reformed.” This is up from just 34 percent who said the same after the 2022 midterm elections.
“Over that time, the share of Republicans and Republican leaners who feel the same way about the GOP has ticked downward, from 38% to 28%,” CNN reports.
The report adds:
Only 49% of Democratic-aligned adults say they expect their party’s congressional representatives to be even somewhat effective at resisting GOP policies, while more than 9 in 10 Republican-aligned adults expect their party’s congressional representatives — who now control both chambers of Congress — to be at least somewhat effective at passing new laws to enact their agenda.
But across party lines, the predominant political mood is one of discontent. Most adults in the US describe themselves as disappointed (70%) and frustrated (64%) with the nation’s politics today, with nearly half calling themselves burned out. About 4 in 10 say they’re angry, rising to 52% among Democratic-aligned women. Fewer than 20% say they’re optimistic, fired up, inspired or proud.
Only 23% of all registered voters say they’re satisfied with the influence people like them have on the political process, down from 38% in a poll taken last autumn — a decline that reflects rising dissatisfaction among voters in both parties. And only about half of all adults, 48%, say they’re confident that elections reflect the will of the people, although that’s actually an uptick from readings in the low 40s over the past three years. Confidence has undergone a partisan reversal in the wake of Trump’s electoral victory, soaring from 29% in July 2023 to 67% now among Republican-aligned adults, and dipping from 59% to 39% among Democratic-aligned adults over the same period of time.
Looking at the results across the entire political spectrum, just 33 percent of Americans hold a favorable opinion of the Democrat Party. This is the lowest it has been since CNN began running the poll in 1992.
The study was conducted for CNN via web and telephone on the SSRS Opinion Panel, a nationally representative panel of U.S. adults ages 18 or older recruited using probability-based sampling techniques. Surveys were obtained January 9-12, 2025, with a representative sample of n=1,205 respondents. The margin of sampling error for total respondents is +/-3.2 at the 95% confidence level.
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