Democrats face new dividing line: Cooperate or resist Trump 2.0?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

72% : Kim served in the House when Trump first arrived in Washington almost a decade ago.
68% : "So, when President Trump moves the American people forward on those issues, then Democrats should be supportive, because it helps the people of the United States," Beshear added.
56% : "Trump is very transactional and maybe by this point some of the Democrats have figured out: 'If I want to get something for my district or my state, this is how he works,'" Coleman said.
49% : "Eight years ago, there was such shock within the Democratic Party that it was a better electoral strategy for a lot of elected Democrats to be the ones fighting the hardest against Trump," said Casey Burgat, director of the legislative affairs program at George Washington University's graduate school of management.
49% : As a result, Trump might be experiencing a post-election honeymoon period that may end once he takes office and begins signing executive orders or enacting policies less popular with average voters.
48% : "I'm most afraid of Trump making good on the things that he says, which ends up pulling American culture further to the right, and the Democrats chasing that middle - further ostracizing the left in marginalized communities," said Corryn Freeman, executive director of Future Coalition, a grassroots organization focused on supporting youth activists.
47% : "Limón said Democratic state legislators would play a pivotal role in opposing federal policies under Trump, adding that the president-elect and his allies should listen to their fellow Americans' viewpoints.
46% : The shift in approach is due chiefly to the electoral differences in Trump's two victories, experts said, with the 2024 win coming via a sweep of all seven battleground states, winning the popular vote and making gains in Democratic strongholds, such as the Bronx, where Trump received 27% of the vote compared with 9% in 2016.
46% : In Maryland, for example, bills have been introduced to better evaluate greenhouse gas emissions on transportation projects and create a climate superfund that would require fossil fuel companies to pay to help fight the effects of climate change.
45% : He also wants to look at possible anti-corruption legislation, such as barring cabinet officials and members of Congress from trading in stocks while in office, an effort that has drawn interest from some GOP lawmakers.
45% : But the Bluegrass State leader said his party must be keenly focused on earning back voters' trust by leaning into things they care about broadly, such as the cost of living, public safety in their communities and better public schools for their children.
44% : The party enjoyed some electoral successes at the state level and government trifectas - states that hold the governor's mansion and full legislative control - nearly tripled from six to 15 in that timeframe.
40% : "A lot of people voted for Donald Trump in part because he came across to them as a disrupter," he said.
40% : "At the end of the day, I think there's a recognition Trump's got a governing trifecta and that we cannot just protest at every turn," he said.
38% : Ten Democrats, mostly from battleground states, joined the GOP Friday to break a Senate filibuster to advance the Laken Riley Act, giving Trump an early win with a measure that requires, among other things, federal authorities to detain undocumented immigrants suspected of theft, even if they haven't been charged.
36% : In the interim, many Democrats representing swing states or congressional districts Trump won aren't certain whether they're standing on concrete or quicksand politically speaking and are waiting to see if the president-elect overextends himself on less popular parts of his agenda.
36% : Another measure seeks to limit collaboration by state prisons with federal immigration enforcement, and Sunshine State Democrats have already approved $50 million to shore up state and local legal defenses against the Trump administration and fend off any mass deportation plan.
28% : "If we're talking about the outrage of the day in Washington, D.C., if we're talking about the crazy thing that President Trump may have said the night before and then we're talking about jobs, we're only talking about jobs a third of the time," said Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, who was vetted to be on the 2024 Democratic ticket at one point last year.
26% : "He said there is more willingness to cooperate on things such as capping credit card rates, which Trump called for during the campaign, and finding wasteful Pentagon spending through the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, which the president-elect promised would send "shockwaves through the system.

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