The 'Fox News Saturday Night' Panel Discusses Tim Walz's Phony Tough Guy Act
Comedian Danny Polishchuk and co-host of 'The Big Money Show' Brian Brenberg join Fox News Saturday Night With Jimmy Failla to share their thoughts on Minnesota Governor Tim Walz's latest strategy for improving the Democratic Party's abysmal poll numbers.
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Combined with the 13% of Democrats who said Republicans have the stronger leaders, that's 6 in 10 Democrats this year who don't think their side has stronger leaders than a party led by a president whom a huge majority of them revile. The other notable finding is on which party is the 'party of change.' Americans chose Republicans, 32% to 25%. That's not a big gap, but it is counterintuitive given Republicans swept the House, Senate and White House last fall. Historically speaking, it's almost always the party that's out of power that's viewed as the party of change. Before the 2006 election, the same CNN-ORC poll mentioned above showed Democrats had a huge, 56% to 29% lead on this measure. Then, as now, Democrats didn't hold the presidency or either chamber of Congress. But the numbers are very different today. Not only do Democrats trail on this measure, but only a slight majority of Democrats themselves — 51% — say their party is the party of change. 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