About this episode

Peter Hamby joins Dylan to discuss polling on the Democratic Party's perception issues and strategies for appealing to voters ahead of the 2028 election.

Peter Hamby joins Dylan to decipher new polling on the Democratic Party’s perception problem—to wit, Trump may be historically unpopular, but voters still don’t love Democrats, either. Then they dig into the A.O.C.-Mamdani favorability gap, why Bernie’s brand of populism ages better than the “intersectional” variety, and the Gavin Newsom content-studio model for winning back young men and Latino voters ahead of 2028.

People in this episode

Host: Dylan

Guest: Peter Hamby

Topics covered

• Democratic Party
• polling
• political branding
• populism
• young voters
• Latino voters
• 2028 election

Keywords

• Democrats
• polling
• A.O.C.
• Bernie
• Gavin Newsom
• young men
• Latino voters
• 2028

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Organizations: Democratic Party, Trump

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