The Republican Party is a complete mess, according to veteran Democratic strategist Simon Rosenberg.
While many Republicans are optimistic heading into this year’s elections – thanks in no small part to President Joe Biden’s low approval ratings – the GOP has its own share of problems that could undermine at the polls in November.
Rosenberg joined Monday’s edition of The Source with Kaitlan Collins, who noted Republicans’ intra-party strife with former President Donald Trump playing a key role.
“Speaker Mike Johnson is in trouble right now as a result of his own party,” Collins said, alluding to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s motion to remove Johnson as speaker. “Today, Trump is attacking a prominent Republican senator and huge ally of his. But you kind of have made this argument that the unison and the differences in those in the two parties will have a big impact.”
“Yeah, I mean, this stuff matters,” Rosenberg said. “Part of what I do and other political analysts do is, we don’t just look at polling. We have all these other things to look at, right? The strength of the candidate, the arguments that they’re making, how much money are they raising, the track record.”
He then pivoted to party unity, which he said is sorely lacking in the GOP – unlike the Democratic Party which is fairly cohesive:
The Democratic team is really together right now. You’ve just seen in the last 10 days Biden do events with Obama and Clinton and Bernie Sanders. And there was no serious opposition to Biden in the primary.
On the other side, Trump is facing an unprecedented rebellion in the Republican Party from people like Mitt Romney and Liz Cheney. Serious people who’ve said they’re not going to be voting for Donald Trump. We saw what happened with the Haley voters and the polling and these early states where a big chunk of Haley voters said they were not going to vote for Donald Trump, that they’d be open to voting for Biden.
And I think the Republican Party has splintered. I think so something broke inside the Republican Party after Dobbs in the spring of 2022 where, even for a big chunk of Republicans, this was just a bridge too far. It was too much. And I think you’re seeing now a Democratic Party that’s unified, strong, winning elections, raising lots of money, and a Republican Party that is an unprecedented dumpster fire in my view right now.
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