A new Quinnipiac poll finds only 30% of voters have a favorable view of Democrats, the lowest favorability rating for the Democratic party since the asking voters this question beginning in 2008.

DNC Chair Ken Martin told NPR that recent special election results show Democrats are on the right track for 2026, and tells detractors to “stop bitching” and help the party’s efforts.

Former Rep. Joe Walsh railed against the Democratic Party just three months after joining it.

Said Walsh: “I know I’ve only been a Democrat for 3 plus months, so if I’m overstepping my bounds here I apologize, but damn… the leadership of my new party just doesn’t fucking understand the threat and isn’t fucking meeting this moment.”

He added: “If you can’t relish fighting a fascist, then go home.”

Marc Novicoff: “Party leaders know they need to moderate on cultural issues to win back working-class voters—so why don’t they?”

“As Democrats search for their way out of the political wilderness, a new think tank, introduced on Wednesday, has some ideas about where the party went wrong,” the New York Times reports.

“Among them: too much emphasis on issues like climate change and LGBTQ rights, and far too much deference to the powerful liberal organizations championing those causes at the expense, some argue, of appealing to voters in battleground states.”

Said veteran Democratic operative Adam Jentleson: “The folks who are most to blame about Trump are the ones who pushed Democrats to take indefensible positions.”

The Economist: Who’s afraid of the Democratic Socialists?

“House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’ (D-NY) progressive members are growing increasingly agitated at him for not yet endorsing Zohran Mamdani in the New York City mayoral race,” Axios reports.

“What began as a local issue could have broader implications for Jeffries’ leadership.”

A new Data for Progress poll finds that “more than half of likely Democratic voters prefer socialist-aligned figures like Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Zohran Mamdani to establishment politicians like Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jefrries and Nancy Pelosi.”

“Democratic voters also view elected officials who describe themselves as democratic socialists about as positively as those who identify as Democrats, and they prefer democratic socialism to capitalism when written definitions of each are read aloud to them.”

Capitol Police responded to a bomb threat at the Democratic National Committee headquarters but determined the threat was not credible, NewsNation reports.

Jill Lawrence: “‘Authenticity’ is an overused word in politics, and ‘diversity’ is under assault, but they are both underappreciated assets in the Democratic party.”

“Four Democrats in the news right now prove the worth of these concepts in the nonconceptual, hardball realm of aiming to win elections. They are as different from each other as the states and cities they call home.”

“Democrats have to give up on the idea that they’re a governing party. They have to give up on the idea that the Republican party is a traditional political party of which you can have some sort of meeting of the minds.”

— Former GOP strategist Stuart Stevens, on the Bulwark Podcast.