{"id":40903,"date":"2025-04-24T12:26:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T19:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=40903"},"modified":"2025-04-24T12:26:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T19:26:17","slug":"survey-shows-progressive-voters-want-fighters-not-status-quo-democrats-to-battle-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/04\/24\/survey-shows-progressive-voters-want-fighters-not-status-quo-democrats-to-battle-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey Shows Progressive Voters Want ‘Fighters,’ Not ‘Status Quo’ Democrats, to Battle Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) hold hands during a stop on their “Fighting Oligarchy” tour at Grand Park on April 12, 2025 In Los Angeles, California. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Photo: Sam Ghazi\/Middle East Images\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our Revolution connected the sentiments expressed in the survey to a bid by Democratic National Committee Vice Chair David Hogg to support primaries against safe-seat incumbents.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

ELOISE GOLDSMITH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apr 23, 2025 (CommonDreams.org)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Active progressive and Democratic-leaning voters are interested in seeing primary challengers to Democrats who represent the “status quo” and are “failing to meet the moment,” according to a survey from the group Our Revolution, which polled more than 4,100 voters meeting that description between April 18-20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According<\/a> to survey results published Wednesday, 92% want primary challenges to status quo Democrats who aren’t generating enough grassroots energy\u2014and 96% support “transforming the party from within,” which Our Revolution defines as electing Democratic challengers who reject corporate political action committee (PAC) money and are “ready to take the fight directly to [President Donald] Trump<\/a> and his enablers.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our Revolution, a progressive political organizing group launched as a continuation of Sen. Bernie Sanders<\/a>‘ (I-Vt.) 2016 presidential campaign, said in a statement<\/a> Wednesday that the results reveal a deep frustration with Democratic Party leadership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our Revolution also connected the survey results to an effort<\/a> by David Hogg, Democratic National Committee vice chair and survivor of the 2018 school shooting in Parkland, Florida, to primary “ineffective, asleep-at-the-wheel” Democrats in safely blue seats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The PAC Hogg co-founded, Leaders We Deserve, has pledged<\/a> to spend $20 million to support primary challengers in such races.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Our Revolution polling shows Hogg’s sentiment is shared by a large majority of engaged progressive voters,” Our Revolution said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The voters we organize with are sounding the alarm: They want fighters, not placeholders,” added Joseph Geevarghese, executive director of Our Revolution. “If the party establishment continues to sleepwalk through this crisis, they’ll be replaced by a new generation of leaders who aren\u2019t afraid to take on the fight of our lives.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the release, Geevargheese called the survey respondents voters that Our Revolution organizes, though the statement about the survey results doesn’t offer more information about the survey sample.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to support for primarying establishment Democrats, 87% of respondents said the Democratic Party has “lost its way.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What’s more, 82% want the Democratic Party to stop accepting “Big Money” from billionaires and corporations, 70% said they are not confident Democratic leaders will do what’s needed to stop Trump, and 72% support moving away from a “cautious, centrist approach” in confronting Trump and the far right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In March, Our Revolution\u00a0conducted<\/a>\u00a0a survey of its own members which found that nearly 90% of respondents believe Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) should step aside from his leadership role, and 86% said they would support a primary challenger against Schumer for his Senate seat, should he refuse to step aside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ELOISE GOLDSMITH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eloise Goldsmith is a staff writer for Common Dreams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) hold hands during a stop on their “Fighting Oligarchy” tour at Grand Park on April 12, 2025 In Los Angeles, California.  (Photo: Sam Ghazi\/Middle East Images\/AFP via Getty Images) Our Revolution connected the sentiments expressed in the survey to a… Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40903"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40904,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40903\/revisions\/40904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}