‘The Party Has Been Taken Over’: Doug Schoen Tells Harris Faulkner ‘Far Left’ Made Democratic Party ‘Unrecognizable’

Former Clinton pollster Doug Schoen told Fox News host Harris Faulkner Thursday that “far left” Democrats like Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York have drowned out “moderate” voices in the party.

Ocasio-Cortez and independent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont have been on an “anti-oligarchy” tour targeting President Donald Trump and White House senior advisor Elon Musk. Schoen, who said he wouldn’t vote for then-Vice President Kamala Harris during the 2024 presidential campaign, said the party just “bashes and trashes” Republicans. (RELATED: ‘No Good Answer’: Former Clinton Pollster Says Democratic Party ‘Doesn’t Have New Ideas’)

“Bernie Sanders, AOC are indeed the leaders of the party. All we heard from them, and you saw it on the screen and you said it, Harris, is anti-Trump, no positive program,” Schoen told Faulkner. “Certainly, no centrist programs and I would argue that my party is out of touch with the mainstream, with the ideas that elected Donald Trump.

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“He is moving very quickly and very aggressively, sometimes a little further than perhaps the electorate would want, but my party just bashes and trashes and with AOC and Bernie Sanders at the helm, I think we’re only running on opposition to the Republicans, no ideas, no plans,” Schoen continued.

Democrats remained seated and rarely applauded during Trump’s 99-minute address to Congress March 4, even when Secret Service Director Sean Curran presented DJ Daniel, who is battling brain cancer, with credentials during the speech.

“Moderate voices like my own, which were ascendant when I was working along with a team for Bill Clinton in the White House between 1994 and 2001, we were, I think, ascendant, and he ran on cutting the budget, balancing it, getting rid of the debt and the deficit, reforming welfare, tough on crime,” Schoen said. “People who speak that message, which is equally relevant today, are marginalized, just not heard and frankly the party has now been taken over by the far left in ways that it makes it unrecognizable to those of us who were in the rational center.”

Of left-of-center respondents to a poll from Network Contagion Research Institute, 55% said an assassination of Trump would be “somewhat justified,” while 13% said the killing would be “completely justified.” (RELATED: Left-Wing Dem Gives Blunt Assessment Of AOC As Potential Party Leader)

A Secret Service agent thwarted the apparent assassination attempt on Trump by firing shots at Ryan Welsey Routh, who was allegedly lurking near Trump International Golf Club on Sept. 15, 2024, two months after Trump was shot in the right ear while giving a speech at a July 2024 campaign rally in Pennsylvania.

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