Richard Arnold: US Correspondent on brutal Democratic Party polls, and six fatal tornadoes

The United States democratic party has reached record low numbers in favourability polls. 

Many within the party have said their leaders should publicly stand against President Donald Trump. 

The party is polling at just 29%. 

US Correspondent Richard Arnold talks to Mike Hosking about the reason for this, and the fatal tornadoes that ripped through six states. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
St oightside, Richard Arnold, Good morning. What do you make
so the Democrats? I was mentioning Schumer before, but things
things seem ripy at the moment.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Are they Dems in disarray? Yeah, it's a brutal reality
that they're facing. According to this new polling out today
and the polling that was taken before the Democrats caved
and back the Republican temporary spending. With this humor reversal,
a lot of Democrats are saying they should have shut
the government down more on that than the tick. But
as CNN poll puts, the democrats favorable rating at a

(00:28):
record low just twenty nine percent. This is the lowest
ever reported for Democrats in the survey they first started
to ask about some thirty plus years ago. It shows
the party's favorability has dropped by about twenty points in
just four years. So Democrats are scrambling to find some
unity in dealing with Trump's second term and all the
chaos that is bringing Republican favorability by the way, thirty

(00:50):
six percent. So Polly's not the most popular folks around
right now, are they? Many Democrats are saying their party
should do more to stand up to Trump, and that
is an enormous shift from the Trump presidents he back
in twenty seventeen. It's interesting to see the switch here.
Seventy four percent of Democrats said their party should work
with Republicans to try to get things done for the
benefit of the country. Now very different, fifty seven percent

(01:12):
saying the Democratic Party should work to stop the Republican agenda,
which brings us to what just happened in that budget
battle you mentioned, where Republicans pushed through a temporary spending
plan without even talking to Democrats. They needed to get
a handful of Democratic votes to get this thing passed,
a measure that will provide some more money for border
control in the Pentagon, but little for anything else. The

(01:32):
Democratic Senate leader Chuck Schumann first said he would not
vote for the Republican plan, and most Democrats seem to
agree with that stance.

Speaker 3 (01:39):
I think they will be hugely upset and well justified.
You don't stop the bully by handing all your lunch money,
and you don't stop authoritarian president by giving him more power.

Speaker 4 (01:50):
It would be a capitulation to the Trump style of democracy,
which is the movement of democracy to dictatorship.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
The right thing to do is not for this institution
behind me to give up for six months all of
its power.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
Senator Curry Booker is speaking lastly. But then their leader,
Juck Schumer did that complete reversal and back the Trump bill, saying.

Speaker 4 (02:13):
As bad as the CR is, I believe allowing Donald
Trump to take even much more power via a government
shutdown is a far worse option. A shutdown would allow
Doze to shift into overdrive.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
Well, that's an argument you can make, but that is
not the sentiment in much of the party right now,
As says Democrat Alexandria Casio QUOTEZ, I think.

Speaker 4 (02:36):
There is a deep sense of outrage.

Speaker 2 (02:39):
And the trail by their own leadership. The top Democrat
in the House, the kiing Diffe's, was asked about the
shumor backtrack.

Speaker 3 (02:45):
Is the time for new leadership in the Senate? Next question?

Speaker 4 (02:48):
Have you lost confidence in him? The fact that you
guys see this so differently?

Speaker 2 (02:52):
Next question, so we're next for Democrats party divided?

Speaker 1 (02:57):
Ron, give me the update on the Tondos boy.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
One hell of a night through a swath of Midwestern
and southern states. He dozens of tornadoes hitting, battering Missouri, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Kansas, Texas.
Missouri really is one of the worst affected. As one
man recorded part of what was going on, was you
on that degree?

Speaker 4 (03:18):
Oh my god?

Speaker 2 (03:21):
Well, near Saint Louis, the storm's hit through the night
and truckdriver dan Loncren sheltered in the cab of his
semi had.

Speaker 3 (03:28):
Last flying everywhere in my face and my arms and everything.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
He had very lucky escape because his track was slammed
by another truck that was blown right over by the
fierce winds and into his vehicle. Then he washed us.
The local petrol station right near him basically was obliterated.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
There was tons of people up in the store that
would just bring around crying and screaming, and he's pre scary.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
The small center of Taylortown in Mississippi also has seen
a lot of devastation, and the still mornings continue MiCT.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
So you win State Richard on the state side. By
the way, a little bit of court action around trump
UH judges ordered several federal government agencies to reinstate some
probationary employers that got rolled. They apply to Agriculture, Defense, Energy, Interior,
the Treasury, and Veterans affairs. Another court case were pending
a bunch of state attorneys general taking Trump to court

(04:17):
over the Education Department staff as thirteen thirteen hundred of
them been doged. But this is going to be an
interesting one, and I think Trump's going to lose this.
The Department's authority to administer does not override Congress. Congress
sets up the department, and because Congress authorized it, you
can't override Congress. So I think that's going to go

(04:39):
to court and Trump will lose that one. But we'll
watch and wait with interest.

Speaker 2 (04:42):
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