Let’s face it. The Democrats are underdogs in their fight to get President Trump to make a deal and end the government shutdown.

As the bell rings to start this fight, the Democrats are weighed down by the hard truth that at any point over the last ten months, former Vice President Kamala Harris would likely have lost the presidency to Trump a second time. Even this spring, at the start of Trump’s reckless use of tariffs, an Emerson University poll found Trump leading Harris by a narrow 48 percent to 47 percent advantage.

Democrats remain dumbfounded that any voters are sticking by Trump. But they are in a fury over their party’s failure to take the fight to him. 

According to a Quinnipiac survey released last week, 54 percent of all voters have an unfavorable view of the Democrats. That was lower than the 51 percent who disapprove of the GOP. “This is the lowest favorability rating for the Democratic Party since the Quinnipiac University Poll began asking this question in 2008,” it read.

The big reason for the low approval of Democrats is their own voters’ unhappiness. 

“Democrats now express more disapproval of their party’s congressional leadership [59 percent disapproval] than at any time in several decades…,” according to a September Pew survey.

Why?

Since Trump took office, Democratic voters feel their party is on the sidelines, or to use boxing lingo, “taking a dive,” instead of standing up to a president acting so........

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