Voters See Dems as More Corrupt Than Republicans Despite Trump's Grifting - Rolling Stone

[In It to Win It]

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-democrats-more-corrupt-than-republicans-poll-1235396092/

Archived: https://archive.ph/CN4bN

On Tuesday morning, the White House posted a livestream of the “Grand Opening Ceremony” of his newest golf club, Trump International Golf Links in Aberdeen, Scotland, on X — the latest in a long line of recent examples of Donald Trump using his public office for personal profit, with U.S. taxpayers covering the bill.

Yet, somehow, even in an era of presidential meme coins and library fund shakedowns, voters in the critical congressional districts see Democrats as the corrupt ones.

Impact Research — the exalted Democratic pollster used by the presidential campaigns of Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama as well as the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee, and the Democratic Governors Association — is out with new research likely to turn the stomachs of the firm’s current and former clients.

The survey of frontline congressional districts, conducted on behalf of the liberal watchdog End Citizens United and shared exclusively with Rolling Stone, found that, across these districts, voters see Democrats as more corrupt than Republicans.

In a rage-blackout-inducing twist, the polling also found that, despite the staggering, previously unfathomable scale of corruption that Trump has brazenly engaged in since re-taking office, the president’s rating on corruption runs eight points ahead of his approval number in the districts surveyed.

[Chasstev365]

1. Thank You Fox and 10-1 Hate Radio

[edhopper]

2. Voters are idiots

Don't know how many times we need to see it.
They're just imbeciles.

[NoMoreRepugs]

3. More facts about how incredibly stupid a large segment of the voting public are.

[Phoenix61]

4. I want to see the survey... all of the data because this doesn't add up. nt

[Solly Mack]

5. The dumbing down of education in America began decades ago and it is bearing fruit.

Rotten fruit.

[Mark.b2]

17. Truth! I cant believe the number of kids whose reading is below where it should be...

I sometimes wonder what kids are doing all day at school.

I have 12 nieces and nephews ranging in age from 7 to 19. I dont know if theyre representative or not, but the ones who are smart are very smart (four of them), and the ones who arent, well…they get by, I suppose. There doesnt seem to be any who are fair to middlin’. The ones you’d expect to be in the meaty part of the bell curve.

What annoys me most is how incurious they are about basically everything. And you can forget anything civics-related! I found myself at the kiddie table at Christmas, and I was quizzing them about who our governor, Senators, Representatives and other politicians. Only a couple of them could name some of them. (sigh)

[chicoescuela]

6. We're fucked but maybe history will repeat like Hitler, Mussolini and the

French Revolution. It won’t be the ‘radical’ that overtakes tsf it will be a bunch of chumps wearing MAGA hats.

[emulatorloo]

7. Would be interesting to hear where respondents get their "news." TikTok?

[elleng]

8. 'Voters' have no idea what's happening.

[AZProgressive]

9. I recently watched a documentary about Dark Money on HBO

There are two episodes but one is about Ohio Republicans which shows how corrupt they are though a lot of the corruption is technically legal thanks to Citizens United. The fact they dedicated an entire 1 hour and a half documentary to a state Republican party still shows that Democrats are nowhere near being as corrupt as Republicans with a few exceptions like Menendez & Eric Adams but overall the Republicans are a lot more corrupt than Democrats.

[DavidDvorkin]

10. Then it's hopeless.

[blm]

11. I do blame lack of Dem strategy against Republican corruption.

In 2006 I posted often here that ‘corruption’ of Bush WH was becoming obvious to American voters. The pundits were surprised in Nov when corruption was the number one issue to voters in exit polling.

Develop an anti-corruption strategy and swarm the airwaves for the next 16 months.

[W_HAMILTON]

12. Bad things about Democrats.

[0rganism]

14. America's democracy has ended. It will be up to the rest of the world to proceed with civilization now.

We failed, I hope other countries can find a way to do better with government despite the mess the biosphere now faces.

[oldmanlynn]

15. Im skeptical about the data.

It’s extremely obvious that Republicans are involved in more corruption yet voters see completely opposite? I think there’s some data skew here.

[Cosmocat]

16. Ive been beating this drum for decades

Republicans spend 24 hours a day negatively framing Dems/Libs, 99% distortions or flat lies, while Dems can't bring themselves to hit Republicans on their actual bad actions.

This has always impacted the way the country thinks about liberals and dems.

But, now w DT and maga its an absolute firehouse every waking second ...

[newdeal2]

18. There's no proactive strategy still

People in leadership have been asleep at the wheel for way too long (maybe 10-15 years) with no central themes or messaging that break through. Republicans have successfully painted a distorted picture of Democrats and it's working in their favor.

[Cosmocat]

21. Correct - this is the one true fault dems have

They just have never been able to focus on united messaging at all, but again, there is SO much they can justifiably hit Rs on and they don't even bother.

[Mysterian]

19. The rich people who want to be oligarchs bought all the media

There is nothing but right-wing propaganda everywhere in the U.S. media.

[MorbidButterflyTat]

20. Bad and Dire "News"

about Dems.

[muriel_volestrangler]

22. Can't find this poll, but here's what Impact Research wrote for End Citizens United on May 1

from focus groups:

https://www.endcitizensunited.org/impact-research

(I can only see their .jpg images, nothing copyable). Amazingly, their first recommendation is "Keep the focus on Congress, rather than Trump or Elon" (written before the break-up, of course). Apparently, the focus groups are dumb enough to have fallen for "drain the swamp", and see Trump as an "outsider". His extensive history of corruption and bribery, via his DC hotel, for instance, means little to uninformed voters, or his conviction for falsifying his business records.

Me, I'd say "shout about the obvious corruption in the Trump family - and by all means say the Republicans in Congress are complicit in supporting him. Call out any individual Republicans who are corrupt too."