{"id":1435804,"date":"2022-04-13T15:29:36","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T19:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1435804"},"modified":"2022-04-13T15:29:45","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T19:29:45","slug":"democrat-establishment-says-theyre-only-unpopular-because-theyve-done-poor-job-of-communicating-their-non-existent-accomplishments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-establishment-says-theyre-only-unpopular-because-theyve-done-poor-job-of-communicating-their-non-existent-accomplishments\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrat Establishment Says They\u2019re Only Unpopular Because They\u2019ve Done Poor Job of Communicating Their Non-Existent Accomplishments"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocrat-establishment-says-theyre-only-unpopular-because-theyve-done-poor-job-of-communicating-their-non-existent-accomplishments%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1435804&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Democrats say they\u2019ve done a lousy job at highlighting their accomplishments in a year plus of unified power in Washington, and are blaming this on the possibility they will suffer major losses in November\u2019s midterm elections.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook, I\u2019m not going to BS. We\u2019ve done a f\u2014ing horrible job and sometimes I think we deserve to lose big in November,\u201d said one Democratic strategist. \u201cDemocrats can say whatever they want but it\u2019s not honest.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe narrative here doesn\u2019t exist,\u201d the strategist added. \u201cWe need to wake up fast.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Strategists aren\u2019t the only ones giving Democrats poor marks. Earlier this month, Hillary Clinton, the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, said Democrats need to do a better job touting their achievements.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not quite sure what the disconnect is between the accomplishments of the administration, and this Congress, and the understanding of what\u2019s been done, and the impact it will have on the American public, and some of the polling and the ongoing hand-wringing,\u201d Clinton said on NBC\u2019s\u00a0\u201cMeet the Press.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She said the party has \u201ca good case to make if we get our focus in the right place to do it,\u201d arguing Democrats have \u201ca lot of good accomplishments to be putting up on the board. And the Democrats in office and out need to be doing a better job of making the case.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At a White House event last week marking the 12th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act, former President Obama offered similar advice when asked by a reporter for his message to Democrats worried about the midterms.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cWe got a story to tell, just got to tell it,\u201d Obama said as he left the East Room.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>President Biden\u2019s approval ratings have hit a new low in polling. A CBS News-YouGov poll out on Monday showed Biden\u2019s approval dropping to 42 percent, with 58 percent of those surveyed saying they disapprove of Biden\u2019s job as president.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s quite a fall from March 2021, when Biden had a\u00a062 percent approval rating despite the polarization of the 2020 campaign.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Some Democrats are baffled at Biden\u2019s low numbers given what they think is a list of robust\u00a0accomplishments. They list the coronavirus relief bill passed in March, a bipartisan infrastructure bill and the recent confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson, who will be the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They also highlight an economy that continues to create jobs, and\u00a0the improving state of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Such successes have been drowned out by other issues: Inflation, including a negative report showing prices rising 8.5 percent on Tuesday; the withdrawal from Afghanistan, when Taliban troops took over Kabul while the U.S. was exiting; and the sour public mood from the\u00a0pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s ability to tout a domestic agenda is now challenged by his administration being consumed by Russia\u2019s war on Ukraine.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Since the start of the year, he\u2019s only done one sit-down interview, a stunning fact for some White House observers.<\/p>\n<p>The president picked up his domestic travel this week, appearing in Iowa on Tuesday to discuss his administration\u2019s efforts to address inflated gas prices.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>On Thursday he\u2019ll\u00a0head to North Carolina to discuss his domestic economic agenda, which the White House argues would help lower costs for families. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The administration is making an effort to put other officials on the road as part of a \u201crural infrastructure tour\u201d during the month of April.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Biden and other Democrats have tried to drive home the number of jobs being added to the economy, with another 431,000 added in March and unemployment at 3.6 percent.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But inflation concerns have won the headlines. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe problem is that voters would rather feel that the economy is improving than read about it. And in this\u00a0hyperpartisan\u00a0environment even if the statistics tell you you\u2019re doing better, you\u2019re not going to give Joe Biden credit for that,\u201d said former Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chair Steve Israel.\u00a0\u201cWhich means Democrats have a message marathon, not a sprint. They\u2019ll be forcing votes on core economic issues that force a contrast and that contrast will be drawn in potent thirty second ads in the midterm election this fall.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Polling released Tuesday from the left-leaning Navigator Research found that 58 percent of voters say the Democratic Party is paying too little attention to economic issues, while 44 percent said the same of Republicans.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Democrats are hoping to get a boost from Jackson\u2019s confirmation, in which Biden fulfilled a key 2020 campaign promise.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The question is whether even Democrats excited about Jackson will feel excited about Biden\u2019s role.\u00a0\u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d jabbed at the president\u2019s accomplishment over the weekend in its cold open. \u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cSo that\u2019s one campaign promise down and only 74 to go,\u201d said SNL\u2019s James Austin Johnson as Biden in the Oval Office. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ben LaBolt, the Democratic strategist and former Obama White House aide who helped shepherd Jackson through her hearings last month, acknowledged that with the pandemic and supply chain causing a surge in prices, \u201cit\u2019s a challenging time for leaders around the world.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir approval ratings have been impacted,\u201d LaBolt said. \u201cAt the same time, President Biden has taken many significant actions to curb the pandemic, boost the economy, put Americans back to work at a historic pace, while keeping core campaign commitments, like confirming the first Black woman to the Supreme Court in history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile the president continues to take action to pass policies that will bring down the cost of living for Americans, the time is now for Democrats to communicate every day, through earned and paid media, the major accomplishments of the first 15 months of this administration and the more catastrophic crisis that was averted,\u201d he added.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Democratic strategist Rodell Mollineau, who served as a spokesman for the late Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), said many consultants think it\u2019s \u201ctone deaf\u201d to boast about accomplishments at times of crises.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Still, he recalled Reid traveling back to Nevada every week to talk about his accomplishments. \u201cAnd he won his race,\u201d in 2010, when he was in the marquee Senate race against Sharron Angle. \u201cSo say what you want.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"thehill-promo-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/news\/3266482-ben-shapiro-gets-into-scrap-with-student-at-men-cannot-be-women-event\/\" class=\"thehill-promo-link__link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n\t\tBen Shapiro gets into scrap with student at \u2018Men Cannot Be Women\u2019 event\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/news\/3266508-ukraine-invasion-more-than-doubles-some-syrian-food-prices-report\/\" class=\"thehill-promo-link__link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n\t\tUkraine invasion more than doubles some Syrian food prices: report\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t<\/aside>\n<p>Mollineau said Democrats need to stop complaining that they haven\u2019t been able to check off everything on their to-do list \u201cand start talking about what has been done.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He said they also need to \u201cstart rallying around the president because if his numbers are soft, then that\u2019s going to affect the midterms as well.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd for once, row in the same direction,\u201d he added.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats say they\u2019ve done a lousy job at highlighting their accomplishments in a year plus of unified power in Washington, and are blaming this on the possibility they will 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