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With Election Day just nine weeks from Tuesday, Democrats have high hopes of taking back the House and Senate — yet can’t seem to find a real positive agenda.
They’re relying purely on economic anxiety and Trump fatigue because even as the party establishment and the insurgent left struggle, neither faction has any clue how to win a lasting majority of the country.
The establishment is hobbled by its donor class’s obsessions with such toxic, exotic issues as DEI, trans rights and open borders; the rebels, by the socialist fantasies of the college-centered, downwardly mobile activist class.
Neither wing has much to offer the party’s traditional working-class base nor even black and Hispanic voters, while the hard left’s alliance with Islamists scares many voters toward Republican hands.
Everyone’s trying to speak to “affordability” these days, recognizing that it blows all other issues out of the water.
A recent Americans for Prosperity poll sets out the numbers pretty well: In seven battleground Senate states, 56% of voters named “economy/inflation” as their No. 1 issue, dwarfing issues from immigration to health care to crime.
As the “ins,” Republicans get default blame for this anxiety, but Democrats haven’t come up with any better answers than the ones that only made things worse in the Biden years.
Consider establishment pick Cait Conley’s bid to unseat Rep. Mike Lawler in the red-hot Hudson Valley race: Her platform is the same old farrago of federal interventions from a “public option” for health care to zero-down mortgages to crackdowns on drug-maker “price gouging.” --->READ MORE HERE
Every conceivable historical benchmark would lead you to believe that Democrats are predestined for a great triumph come November.
The federal government is under unified Republican control, Americans remain deeply dissatisfied with the state of the economy and President Trump’s approval rating lies somewhere in the depths of the Mariana Trench.
Add the ongoing hostilities with Iran and resumption of a foolhardy trade war with our neighbors to the north to the tally, and you have the makings of an electoral landslide.
One that would make a living hell for Trump out of his final two years in the White House.
But a new Echelon Insights poll raises the question: Just how inevitable is this menacing Blue Wave?
According to the survey, Democrats’ once impressive enthusiasm gap is now nearly nonexistent.
In August 2025, 64% of Democrats indicated that they were “extremely motivated” to cast a ballot the following fall.
Just 48% of Republicans said the same.
Fast forward to this month and that first number has ticked up to just 67%, while the second has shot up to 63%.
The same survey found that the donkeys lead the elephants by five points on the generic ballot, which is just about in line with RealClearPolitics’ average.
That’s a significant enough lead to matter — and likely to propel them back into the majority in the House of Representatives.
But it’s hardly the material that wave elections are made of, especially considering Republicans’ victories in the redistricting wars.
Moreover, the sample used by Echelon Insights may have been slightly biased toward Team Blue.
After all, Trump won the popular vote in 2024, 49.8%-48.3%. --->READ MORE HERE
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