As reported at Semafor, the group called Welcome, consulted with hundreds of thousands of voters over six months for its broad findings, including that 70% of voters think the Democratic Party is “out of touch.” The Democrat party has wrecked its brand by over-prioritizing far left and niche issues like protecting the rights of LGBTQ+ Americans and fighting climate change rather than larger macro issues like lower the crime rate and securing the border.
Democrats have badly weakened their party with left-leaning ideas and rhetoric, growing only with self-described “white liberals” while losing ground with other voters, according to a new center-left group’s report shared first with Semafor.
The group, called Welcome, consulted hundreds of thousands of voters over six months for its broad findings, including that 70% of voters think the Democratic Party is “out of touch.
Most voters, the group found, believe the party over-prioritizes issues like “protecting the rights of LGBTQ+ Americans,” and “fighting climate change” while not caring about “securing the border” or “lowering the rate of crime.”
(Welcome began as a PAC in 2022, then founded a nonprofit with the same name for political research.)
The report directly challenges Democrats’ predilection for the interests of “highly educated and affluent voters,” arguing that their influence “may be responsible” for the party’s closer association with left-wing politics.