On CNN’s “Inside Politics” Sunday morning, Associated Press reporter Julia Pace and Politico‘s Manu Raju agreed that “it’s not entirely clear” what the Democratic party stands for today.
Discussing a new poll showing 54% of Americans don’t think that President Obama can lead the country, the panel shed light on the public’s perception of the president and its implications for the Democratic party in today’s political climate.
“One of the big reasons why the public thinks about Obama this way is that there just isn’t much happening here and everything that is happening tends to be negative,” Pace asserted. “It’s either watching the U.S. pull back into Iraq, it’s watching the IRS e-mails unfold. So, any action that they do see reflects poorly on the president and he doesn’t have much to counter that narrative with.”
Raju expressed his agreement, and called this a “huge problem” for Democrats running for reelection this November. All 435 seats in the House of Representatives are up for grabs, as are 36 spots in the Senate.
“What are Democrats really running on?” asked Raju. “It’s not even clear. There’s no real national issue other than, say, the minimum wage.” He then admitted that even the liberals’ fight for minimum pay isn’t “going anywhere.”
He concluded, “So, what is it that the party stands for? It’s not entirely clear right now.”
Watch the short discussion below.
