An average of the most recent national polls that asked how respondents viewed the two major political parties show the Republicans' favorability 15 points in negative territory but the Democrats 20 points underwater.
Helping to sink the Democratic Party's underwater ratings are Democrats themselves.
A healthy percentage of Democrats feel that their leaders in Congress aren't fighting back more vocally against Trump and his unprecedented second-term agenda. That's fueling a less favorable view of the Democratic Party among Democrats compared to a noticeably more favorable view of the GOP among Republicans.
That's a departure from 2006 and 2018, the most recent midterms, when the Democrats rode blue waves to win back the House when Republicans controlled the White House. In those years, Democrats led by double digits in net favorability.
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