Reference Message Network reported on May 15 that according to a report by the Associated Press on May 14, six months after Trump won the presidential election, Democrats are still deeply pessimistic about the future of their party, despite the fact that most American adults have negative opinions about both the Democratic and Republican parties.

The report said that a new poll conducted earlier this month by the AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that only about one-third of Democrats expressed "very optimistic" or "somewhat optimistic" about the future of the Democratic Party. This is a significant decline from July 2024 when about 60% of Democrats said they had positive views about their party.

Damion Williams, a 48-year-old Democrat from Cahokia Heights, Illinois, who participated in the poll, said: "I don't like the Democratic Party much now. I think they haven't done enough to counter Trump."

The report pointed out that the poll was conducted at a critical moment for the Democratic Party. Last fall, they lost the White House and both chambers of Congress in the election, and are now trying to regroup. In the survey, Democrats expressed mixed opinions about some of the most well-known elected officials in their party, including Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez from New York, and also expressed serious concerns about how the American political system selects leaders.

Williams, a member of the truck driver's union, said he would likely not feel positively about the Democratic Party again unless a leader who can bring positive changes emerges - someone like Obama.

In the meantime, Republicans are slightly more optimistic about the future of their party than last year.

The report found that about half (55%) of Republicans expressed "very optimistic" or "somewhat optimistic" about the future of their party, up from 47% last summer. However, about 30% of Republicans expressed optimism about the state of American politics, up from 10% last summer.

In general, about 40% of American adults have a positive opinion of the Republican Party, while about one-third have a positive opinion of the Democratic Party. (Compiled/translated by Zhao Feifei)

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