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Focus groups run by a Democratic Party strategist show a consistent response when asked to describe Republicans and Democrats using animals, according to a report this past weekend by the New York Times that also reported on a $20 million proposed study to help Democrats understand young male voters<\/a> they lost to President Donald Trump in last year\u2019s election.<\/p>\n

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Excerpt from NY Times report<\/a> by Shane Goldmacher:<\/p>\n

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One longtime Democratic researcher has a technique she leans on when nudging voters to share their deepest, darkest feelings about politics. She asks them to compare America\u2019s two major parties to animals.<\/p>\n

After around 250 focus groups of swing voters, a few patterns have emerged, said the researcher, Anat Shenker-Osorio. Republicans are seen as \u201capex predators,\u201d like lions, tigers and sharks \u2014 beasts that take what they want when they want it. Democrats are typically tagged as tortoises, slugs or sloths: slow, plodding, passive.<\/p>\n

So Ms. Shenker-Osorio perked up earlier this year when a Democratic man in Georgia suggested that a very different kind of animal symbolized her party.<\/p>\n

\u201cA deer,\u201d he said, \u201cin headlights.\u201d<\/p>\n

The man had more to say.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou stand there and you see the car coming, but you\u2019re going to stand there and get hit with it anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Tuesday morning, CNN host John Berman asked Florida Democratic Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz about the Times report on the focus group comparisons, and it did not go well.<\/p>\n

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SUPER AWKWARD: CNN host presses Democrat Debbie Wasserman-Schultz to respond to voters thoughts that the Democrat party is like a “deer in headlights” \u2014 She LASHES OUT instead of taking voters’ concerns seriously.<\/p>\n

Did she not understand the question? pic.twitter.com\/a0MLkK7KmI<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Townhall.com (@townhallcom) May 27, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

CNN transcript excerpt<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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BERMAN: Our friends over at The New York Times are doing a series periodically looking into the Democratic Party and the challenges facing the Democrats are you try to run into the next election with some kind of momentum.<\/p>\n

Shane Goldmacher, among others, is doing this research and he talks about it in an article over the weekend \u2014 a focus group led by a longtime Democratic researcher who asked some 250 people to describe or compare each party to an animal. And I want to read you what this found.<\/p>\n

\u201cRepublicans are seen as \u2018apex predators\u2019 like lions, tigers, and sharks \u2014 beasts that take what they want it. Democrats are typically tagged as tortoises, slugs or sloths: slow, plodding, passive.\u201d And then a little bit later there was a response that said the Democrats were like \u201cdeer in headlights.\u201d<\/p>\n

How is it that you think that the Democratic Party has earned these descriptions?<\/p>\n

SCHULTZ: John, I\u2019m not focused on the animals that some New York Times reporter compares the political parties to. My constituents are human beings. And the human beings that I represent are facing devastating health care cuts. The most significant health care cuts that have been ever handed down by any administration. Almost 14 million people will lose their Medicaid coverage. Many hundreds of thousands more when you add the cuts to the Affordable Care Act.<\/p>\n

I represent the state that has the largest Affordable Care Act signups every single year. These are folks who \u2014 they can get their health care insurance covered because of the Affordable Care Act, because of Medicaid. And as someone who knows that when you don\u2019t have your health you don\u2019t have anything, I know how vital that is.<\/p>\n

So I\u2019m focused on the humans I represent, not animal comparisons.<\/p>\n

BERMAN: I will tell you there was \u2014 it was the voters who were making the comparison with animals, and this was a focus group. It wasn\u2019t The New York Times reporter coming up with these labels. This was a Democratic-led focus group to try to figure out perceptions of the parties. SCHULTZ: John, you said they were asked to compare the parties, so they were prompted to compare the parties to animals. That is ridiculous. That\u2019s \u2014 I\u2019ve watched a lot of focus groups, and I know that the people that I represent want me fighting for the humans \u2014 the families that I represent.<\/p>\n

They don\u2019t want Republicans transferring more and more wealth to many more billionaires. They want to make sure that like what Democrats did under Joe Biden, under a Democratic majority, we ensure that we cut taxes for the middle class \u2014 folks who put that money right back into the economy when they buy refrigerators with the windfall and other kinds of \u2014 other kinds of expenses.<\/p>\n

We make sure that we reduce prescription drugs prices. We started to bring CHIP manufacturing back home. We passed the largest infrastructure and investment act in history and now those jobs we\u2019re seeing come to fruition with rebuilding our infrastructure.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what people want their government to do for them. They don\u2019t want a lawless dictator of a president who hires antisemites and who then acts like he\u2019s trying to fight to protect the Jewish community. The hypocrisy in this \u2014 in this administration is appalling \u2014 appalling.<\/p>\n

BERMAN: Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, thank you so much for talking with us this morning \u2014 appreciate it \u2014 Sara.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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