Poll: Democrats’ Empathy Schtick Isn’t Fooling Voters Anymore
Mark DeVine
The most consequential shift in public opinion away from the Democrat Party ever is underway, and their obsession with MS-13 deportee Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s plight won’t help. After decades of double-digit advantages over Republicans when asked which party “cares more for the needs of people like you,” Americans now have the two major parties tied. CNN’s senior data analyst, Harry Egnet, assessed the swing as one of “the most shocking pieces of poll data that I truthfully have seen this year, maybe in any prior year.”
Meanwhile, Patty Morin, the mother of murdered Maryland woman Rachel Morin, decried her senator, Chris Van Hollen, after his trip to El Salvador in pursuit of “due process” for illegal alien Garcia. Hollen never contacted Morin in the wake of her daughter’s murder at the hands of MS-13. Van Hollen and other vocal Democrats reflexively cast their concerns about Garcia’s deportation as acts of caring for the due process of all Americans, but the new polling suggests that the days of default crediting of Democrats with sincere compassion may be over.
For four years, the Democrat Party’s compassion has come with the burning of a police station justified as an “act of pure righteousness,” men in women’s locker rooms and competing against women in sports, borders open to drugs, child trafficking and violent gangs, sanctuary cities and states where elected Democrats work to thwart law enforcement efforts to catch and detain criminals; George Soros-funded district attorneys loathe to detain, much less to try offenders in courts of law. President Biden declared that “transgender discrimination is the civil rights issue of our time,” as parent-uninformed, teacher-facilitated sex change surgery is encouraged for freshly identified transgender children.
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