How 'more reason for alarm' is hitting Dems after Harris loss: report

Findings from research conducted by the progressive group Navigator Research show that Democrats are "finding more reason for alarm" after Donald Trump's victory over Kamala Harris last month, according to a Monday Politico report.

Per the report, Three "focus groups — held immediately after the 2024 election and conducted by GBAO, a Democratic polling firm — featured three kinds of voters: young men in battleground states who voted for Biden in 2020 and Trump in 2024; voters in battleground states who voted for Biden in 2020 but didn’t vote at all in 2024; and voters in blue states who had previously voted for Democrats, a third party candidate or didn’t vote in 2020 but voted for Trump in 2024."

Navigator Research's director of polling and analytics, Rachael Russell, told Politico that "the focus groups offer 'a pretty scathing rebuke' of the Democratic Party."

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Some ex-Democratic voters call the party "weak" and say its "overly focused on diversity and elites," according to the news outlet.

Furthermore, "When asked to compare the Democratic Party to an animal, one participant compared the party to an ostrich because 'they’ve got their heads in the sand and are absolutely committed to their own ideas, even when they’re failing,'" Politico notes, while "Another likened them to koalas, who 'are complacent and lazy about getting policy wins that we really need.'"

Russell emphasized, "This weakness they see, [Democrats] not getting things done, not being able to actually fight for people — is something that needs to be figured out."

She added, "It might not be the message, it might be the policy. It might be something a little bit deeper that has to be addressed by the party."

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Politico's full report is available here.