There's More to That CBS News Poll That's Bad News for Democrats

Along with the Los Angeles riots this weekend, we saw the release of a poll from CBS News showing good news for President Donald Trump on immigration and his deportation efforts. Americans trust the president regarding who is being prioritized for removal and also favor the Republican Party over the Democratic Party when it comes to which party they trust more on the issue.

The poll certainly showed bad news for Democrats on immigration. Not only do Americans prefer Republicans more on immigration (53-47 percent) and the economy (51-49 percent), but they also give Democrats low marks on how "effective" they are.

Only 22 percent of Americans feel that congressional Democrats have been "effective" in "challenging Donald Trump's policies," but just 29 percent of Democrats think so about their own members of their party being "effective." Overall, 78 percent of Americans and 71 percent of Democrats think congressional Democrats have been "ineffective."

As for Democrats, there is mostly the view among the rank and file that their party hasn’t been effective at challenging Donald Trump's policies.https://t.co/HOZGYyetn5 pic.twitter.com/cx9MIebiPC
— CBS News Poll (@CBSNewsPoll) June 8, 2025

The demographic most likely to think that Democrats have been "effective" is 33 percent of those under 30. This demographic has been going through its own noteworthy time with politics, given the debacle and infighting surrounding David Hogg and his time as DNC vice chairman.

Although the poll was released the weekend of the Los Angeles riots, the poll was conducted days prior on June 4-6 with 2,428 adults and had a margin of error of plus or minus 2.4 points.

As we covered in Tuesday's VIP piece, Klobuchar gave a non-answer about the poll's findings on immigration, with the poll showing that 54 percent of Americans support Trump's deportation program for those immigrants in the United States illegally. The senator even laughably claimed that "Democrats believe in public safety." So far, Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) seems to have been the only Democrat to forcefully condemn the violence and unrest.

Stunningly, or perhaps not, Klobuchar appears to have only posted about the riots from her political X account and to slam Trump for encouraging Tom Homan to have California Gov. Gavin Newsom arrested, something the governor goaded Homan over beforehand, though Homan has said he's not looking to do that at this time, and reminded that he isn't even a prosecutor.

Escalating the situation in LA and threatening to arrest Governor Newsom is not going to make our country safer. The world is watching. This must stop. pic.twitter.com/n0hkxVLflg
— Amy Klobuchar (@amyklobuchar) June 9, 2025

The senator has been posting plenty since then, including to slam the "Big, Beautiful Bill." Klobuchar even shared part of her appearance on "Face the Nation," though, again, that concerned the BBB rather than how she was confronted with such numbers.

Not only was Klobuchar confronted about immigration numbers, but also that 71 percent "ineffective" figure. "In our poll, though... it also shows among those polled that congressional Democrats are overwhelmingly seen as ineffective in challenging Trump. Seventy-one percent of Democrats say their leaders are ineffective. You are in Democratic leadership. Why are they wrong?" Brennan pointed out as part of her question.

Klobuchar immediately started by going after the president, with a whole bunch of fearmongering thrown in. "So when you look at what's happening here, Trump is doing some really bad things to people, right? Small businesses are closing down. We--the economy has retracted in the first quarter. And when I get out there talking to Independents, Republicans or Democrats are basically saying the same thing. They're really scared of what's happening right now to their families, and they want to see leadership. So we cannot be the party of the status quo, that is for certain," she shared, as she went on to talk about the 2026 midterms, specifically "the recruiting." It's rather rich that Klobuchar and other Democrats would express concerns about the economy, given how much of a failure the Biden-Harris administration was.

The senator actually did offer something of a telling response when it comes to narrow majorities in Congress, especially how "all [they] need is four Republicans" to vote with them when it comes to their concerns on Medicaid. Republicans may be in the majority, but they also do not have a majority large enough to override the filibuster.

Amy Klobuchar confronted with BRUTAL Democrat polling numbers by CBS:

"71% of Democrats say their leaders are ineffective. You’re in Democratic leadership. Why are they wrong?"

KLOBUCHAR: Because Trump.

Sensing a trend here. 😂 https://t.co/Fmm0lbauSy pic.twitter.com/GJLTmy4TXX
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) June 8, 2025

Klobuchar isn't the only one who handled this question so poorly. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) was confronted on "CBS Evening News" about polling showing that 66 percent of Democrats are "frustrated" with how their party is handling Trump, among other findings, as Matt covered. Jeffries, who acknowledged that "people are understandably frustrated," and that it's "unprecedented, and it is of course unsettling because it's all un-American," still went on to blame Trump as he claimed Democrats "will continue to show up and speak up." It doesn't exactly seem that Jeffries' fellow Democrats who are responding to these polls and more feel the same way.

These findings don't appear to be an outlier. As we've been covering throughout Trump's second term, Democrats have fared far worse than the president, whose numbers are continuously improving. In addition to the record lows we've seen for Democrats in Congress and the party, other polls have also shown Democrats in disarray over handling Trump, especially compared to his first term.