Bernie/Clairo 2028?

Giving y’all some primary sources…

I’m not saying all of you Senators need to give 25+ hour-long speeches without bathroom breaks, but it sure seems to have been a boon for Cory Booker.

When we asked Democratic primary voters who they would consider voting for in the next presidential primary, it’s Booker who is at the very top, with 79% of primary voters viewing him favorably as a potential nominee, followed by Pete Buttigieg, Tim Walz, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Kamala Harris.

2028 is pretty far away, and at this point the only thing we feel like considering is a nap, but it’s notable that Booker has risen to the top of this competitive list after breaking the record for the longest Senate floor speech to highlight his opposition to Trump and the MAGA agenda. Our previous polling has found that Democratic voters want their leaders to fight harder against Trump. The Democrats who want to be the next nominee in three and a half years may need to learn how to grow a spine today.

Unfortunately for Stephen A. Smith, his current polling doesn’t look too promising for any potential sports commentators who want to enter the political field (we’re looking at you, Lee Corso!)

A significant share of likely Democratic primary voters prefer candidates who are middle-aged (47 or 55 years old) and emphasize “fighting corporate power and standing up for working people.” The most consistently favored profile is a 47-year-old Black woman with experience governing a state and a focus on economic populism. Yes, we see the cruel irony in the fact that a Black woman has never been elected state governor in our country’s history.

If only we could make our Democratic nominee at Build-A-Bear. Well, it’s good knowing there will be hundreds of days of fresh hell and hours of long speeches before needing to make that choice!

Read the full poll with Zeteo here.

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Here are some other highlights from DFP this week:

The rent is too damn high!

Sometimes, it can feel like the most unstable relationship in our lives is between us and our landlord. You can be a good tenant and pay all the bills on time, but they still won’t fix the washing machine they promised to fix two months ago.

Luckily, there’s a proposal in New York City that could finally bring some stability back to our lives. With 54% of NYC voters saying that the cost of housing is a reason they’ve considered leaving the city, a rent freeze on rent-stabilized apartments could help avoid the breakup that New Yorkers never want to have.

We also find that 78% of NYC voters support a rent freeze on rent-stabilized apartments, including 83% of Democrats, 75% of Independents, and 63% of Republicans.

Listen, whether we call it “social housing,” “abundance,” or “truly affordable,” we gotta find a way to build more housing and bring down costs. Democratic mayors and governors — if you can’t even make your own blue cities and states livable, how are we going to convince the nation to elect y’all?

Read the full poll here.

Due process… what a concept!

The Popularist Boy Brigade would have you ignore the fact that Trump is acting like a tyrant and unlawfully disappearing immigrants to foreign prisons without due process because Democrats have been polling poorly on immigration policy. But like our other recent polling on “mass deportations,” voters are not as fully right-leaning on these issues as the conventional wisdom would have you believe.

A new Data for Progress survey examined whether voters support due process rights for immigrants, regardless of if they are legal permanent residents with a green card or visa, or living here undocumented.

When asked broadly about the due process rights of undocumented immigrants, a majority of voters (57%), including a majority of Democrats (83%) and Independents (59%), believe that “the federal government should only be allowed to deport undocumented immigrants if it has provided evidence and a hearing,” while 39% of voters believe “the federal government should be allowed to deport undocumented immigrants without providing evidence and a hearing.”

This year, the Trump administration has revoked the visas of hundreds of international students for a variety of alleged infractions, ranging from traffic violations to pro-Palestinian speech, to no reason given at all. Besides the existential threat to free speech and due process — should we really be deporting the only students left in the country who probably aren’t using ChatGPT?

A majority of voters across party lines also believe that immigrants with a green card or visa should have the right to be informed of the charges against them (81%), the right to a fair trial (77%), the right to present a defense (75%), and the right to appeal a court decision (69%).

Read the full poll here.

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