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Most Democrats disapprove of how their party’s lawmakers in Congress are handling their jobs, according to a new national poll.
Fifty-three percent of Democrats questioned in a Quinnipiac University survey released Wednesday gave their party’s congressional members a thumbs-down, while 41% approved of their performance.
According to the poll, conducted June 5-8, just 21% of all voters approved of the way Democrats in Congress were handing their jobs, with seven in ten disapproving.
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., right, is joined by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., at the U.S. Capitol Feb. 12, 2025. (AP/Rod Lamkey, Jr./File)
The 21% approval is the same as in Quinnipiac’s February national poll, matching “an all-time low since Quinnipiac University first asked this question of registered voters in March 2009.”
The survey indicates 79% of GOP voters approve of the way congressional Republicans are handling their job, with 13% disapproving.
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Among all voters, 32% approved of how GOP congressional members were performing their duties, while just over six in ten disapproved.
Overall approval for Republicans in Congress has dropped eight points since Quinnipiac’s February poll, with disapproval jumping nine points.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., left, and House Speaker Mike Johnson R-La. A new poll indicates most Republicans give their members of Congress a big thumbs-up. (Getty Images)
The Democratic Party has been in the political wilderness since November’s elections, when Republicans won back control of the White House and the Senate and defended their fragile House majority. And Republicans made gains among Black, Hispanic and younger voters, all traditional members of the Democratic Party’s base.
Since President Donald Trump’s return to power earlier this year, an…
