As Guy covered on Sunday, right when the poll came out, the latest YouGov/CBS News shows that Americans remain evenly split on how President Donald Trump is handling his job as president. They do, however, remain particularly fond of how he's handling immigration and deportation. While that's what the poll focused on, in addition to views on tariffs, there's plenty more to look at, including and especially when it comes to Democrats reacting to their party members dealing with Trump.
Previous polls show how Democratic respondents loathe Trump so much that they'd prefer to be petty, even if it means not getting legislation passed. Two weeks ago, that had to do with polls from CNN and NBC News. As we covered at the time:
Democrats and Democratic leaners [according to the CNN poll] want Democrats, by 57-42 percent, to work to stop the Republican agenda rather than for Democrats to work with Republicans. As the poll asked, "With Republicans in control of Congress and the presidency, in general, do you think the Democrats should mainly work (with the Republicans to try to get some Democratic ideas into legislation) or should mainly work (to stop the Republican agenda)?" Those numbers were at 23-74 percent in September 2017, during Trump's first term.
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By 65-32 percent [in the NBC News poll], Democratic voters say they want Democrats in Congress to "Stick to their positions even if this means not being able to get things done in Washington" as opposed to "Make compromises with President Trump to gain consensus on legislation." Those numbers were 33-59 percent in April 2017.
We're seeing the same thing with the CBS News poll now. In this most recent poll, just 30 percent of Democratic respondents say they want congressional Democrats to "try to compromise and find common ground with" the president. Seventy percent of Democratic respondents say they want congressional Democrats to "oppose Trump as much as possible." This is in contrast to the overall population, where 60 percent of Americans say they want Democrats in Congress to find that common ground. Except for liberal respondents (25-75 percent), Democrats, and black respondents (48-52 percent), a majority of each demographic want congressional Democrats to try to find common ground.
While those other polls look to past years from Trump's first term to try to draw a contrast, the CBS News poll looks to just a matter of weeks ago, on March 2. Sure enough, Democrats are becoming increasingly opposed even in such a narrow time frame, as this poll shows. At the start of the month, the numbers were 36-64 when it came to Democratic respondents thinking Democrats in Congress should try to find common ground.
Another question focused on those Democrats and Independents who said they want congressional Democrats to oppose Trump. Just 14 percent of Democrats and 13 percent of Independents said that Democrats in Congress are "doing all they can to oppose Trump." Overall, just 18 percent of those respondents asked say Democrats in Congress are doing all they can. Eighty-two percent overall say they "could be doing more," with 86 percent of Democrats and 87 percent of Independents saying so.
The poll was conducted March 27-28, with 2,609 U.S. adults interviewed. There was a margin of error of plus or minus 2.3 percentage points.
Democrats increasingly call for their party in Congress to oppose President Trump.
— CBS News Poll (@CBSNewsPoll) March 30, 2025
And those Democrats who do, overwhelmingly say their party in Congress could be doing more to oppose him.https://t.co/vbHMmvCKDO pic.twitter.com/eozOB6AwKT
Further highlighting how Democrats are in disarray is their lack of leadership. One of the major spokespeople of the party currently includes radical leftist Rep. Jasmine Crockett of Texas, who has gained headlines recently for recent and recently surfaced comments, in which she's gone after Elon Musk, fellow Texans like Republican Sen. Ted Cruz and Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, as well as Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL). There's even a resolution to censure her from Rep. Randy Weber (R-TX).
Further highlighting that particular point of disarray is the CNN poll, which asked Democrats and independents who lean Democratic an open-ended question on who "best reflects the core values" of the party. Thirty percent gave a response with no person mentioned, but 10 percent mentioned Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), a vocal but also leftist member of Congress, who is also a member of the Squad.
Democrats who do try to engage in common ground, though, are ostracized by their party. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is no friend of Trump. He's even admitted he's all for liberal district judges ruling against the Trump administration and for agitators disrupting Republican town halls and other similar events. He did, however, cave earlier this month with his vote to advance the continuing resolution (CR) in order to avoid a government shutdown, with him worried about giving Trump and Elon Musk too much power in that case. That vote came on a Friday, with his announcement he would do so coming on a Thursday night, after he had claimed on Wednesday that the CR did not have enough votes to overcome the filibuster and Democrats were supposedly "unified" there.
Schumer's fellow Democrats were furious, with many of his own refusing to answer if they'd support the minority leader if he faced a primary challenger in 2028. AOC is indeed rumored to be one such possible challenger, just as there's chatter about a push to have her run for president that year. Groups like Justice Democrats also called for him to go, and presumably other Democrats when they mentioned 2026, given that Schumer isn't up for reelection until 2028.
There's even disarray about an AOC versus Schumer primary battle. Two Sundays ago, Schumer affirmed he wasn't going anywhere, though he claimed he was prepared to face controversy, which brought even more of that backlash on social media. Last Sunday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), who caucuses with the Democrats and has had events with AOC, got up to leave an interview with ABC News' Jonathan Karl after he was asked whether he'd "like to see her join [him] in the Senate."
Oh, heck yeah pic.twitter.com/CfX4bfezFw
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) March 14, 2025
WHOA
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) March 23, 2025
Bernie Sanders has anger issues. When asked a simple question about Rep. AOC potentially running for Senate he gets up and says he's done! pic.twitter.com/9T0eTHJ1Gj
"Ok, thanks. No, I ask you - you wanna do nonsense? Do nonsense. I don't wanna talk about inside beltway…
