The Democratic Party is losing registered voters at a remarkable rate, according to a New York Times report published this week.
“I don’t want to say, ‘The death cycle of the Democratic Party,’ but there seems to be no end to this,” Michael Pruser of the election analysis site Decision Desk HQ told the newspaper. “There is no silver lining or cavalry coming across the hill. This is month after month, year after year.”
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Between the last two presidential elections, Democrats ceded ground to Republicans in all 30 states that tabulate voter registration by party, The Times noted in its study using the data firm L2. The total shift amounted to 4.5 million voters to the GOP ― and occurred in battleground, blue and red states.
Last year more new voters opted to register as Republicans than Democrats for the first time since 2018, according to the article.
Of course none of this augurs well for the Democrats as they attempt to win back the Senate and the House in the 2026 midterms.
The Hill cited a poll in early July indicating that party opinion has declined even further since the 2024 election, which saw Donald Trump roar back to power with mostly compliant GOP-controlled chambers.
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But signs of strong resistance have emerged.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) have been drumming up liberal support on a rally tour, and California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), who is also a possible presidential candidate, has been imitating Trump’s online bombast to get under the GOP’s skin.
Meanwhile, Democrats aren’t letting voters forget about the Trump Justice Department’s squirrely action on the Jeffrey Epstein files, and they’re also fighting back against gerrymandering efforts by the GOP.
For the New York Times’ full analysis, click here.
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