A whopping 62 percent of Democrats want their party’s leadership to be replaced and believe they are too focused on woke issues like transgender rights.
The Reuters/Ipsos pollsters surveyed self-identified Democrats and found that only 24 percent do not want leadership to change. Another 14 percent did not have an opinion on the matter.
Just 30 percent of Republicans wanted to see their party’s leadership replaced.
Reuters reports:
Other Democrats said the party sometimes over-emphasizes issues that they view as less critical such as transgender rights. Just 17% of Democrats said allowing transgender people to compete in women and girls’ sports should be a priority, but 28% of Democrats think party leaders see it as such.
Benjamin Villagomez, 33, of Austin, Texas said that while trans rights are important, the issue too easily lends itself to Republican attacks.
“There are more important things to be moving the needle on,” said Villagomez, who is trans. “There are more pressing issues, things that actually matter to people’s livelihoods.”
Reuters noted that California Governor Gavin Newsom, widely believed to be a contender for the 2028 presidential nomination, has acknowledged the issues within the party.
“People don’t trust us, they don’t think we have their backs on issues that are core to them, which are these kitchen table issues,” Newsom said on his podcast in April.
Sam Boland, 29, a Democrat in Minneapolis, told Reuters that the party needs to get beyond portraying itself “as the lesser of two evils.”
“It needs to transform itself into a party that everyday people can get excited about,” Boland said. “That requires a changing of the guard.”
The Reuters/Ipsos poll surveyed 1,293 Democrats nationwide and online June 11 through 16. The poll had a margin of error of about three percentage points.
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