Many Americans say that they do not believe that the Democratic Party focuses on the economic issues that matter most for them and rather emphasizes the social issues they consider less urgent.
Invited to identify the most important priorities in the Democratic Party, the Americans most often listed abortion, LGBTQ rights and climate change, according to a survey of the New York Times and Ipsos carried out from January 2 to 10.
The problems that people were most important to them were personally the economy and inflation, health care and immigration, according to the survey. The types of social causes that progressive activists have defended in recent years have been much lower.
While the Democrats meet in Washington this weekend to elect the next president of their party and debate the way of most effectively countering the Trump administration, The latest public opinion surveys contain disturbing signs for them.
The country remains deeply divided on the leadership of Mr. Trump, with roughly equal actions of people saying that his second mandate is a reason for celebration or concern.
But the survey suggests that people do not consider the Democratic Party as an attractive alternative.
In a broad sense, the survey, which studied a representative sample of 2,128 adults on a national scale, revealed that the Americans think that the republican party is more synchronized with the mood of the country. The problems that said that the most imported to the Republicans were also, for the most part, the questions that imported them: immigration, economics, inflation and taxes.
