It's almost impossible to be more unpopular than theDemocratic Party. Literally.
A new poll fromNBC Newssurveyed registered voters about their feelings on a number of major issues, countries, figures, parties, and politicians. And while there's plenty of fascinating results, arguably the most incredible is just how much Americans do not likeGavin Newsomand the rest of his party.
The least popular entity in the poll? The country of Iran. Not surprising, as until recently, Iran, the Islamic Regime and Ayatollah Khamenei were the most prolific state sponsors of terrorist organizations like Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis. Just eight percent of respondents had positive feelings towards Iran. Seemingly all of them working in major left-wing media outlets.
The second-lowest favorability rating? AI, the technology that's taking over industries, automating business processes, workflows and creating slop images and videos used to mislead people on social media.
But of everything they surveyed, of all the organizations they checked, including ICE, the third-lowest favorability rating belonged to Gavin Newsom. Incredible.
14 February 2026, Bavaria, Munich: Gavin Newsom, Governor of the US state of California, takes part in the 62nd Munich Security Conference. Photo: Marijan Murat/dpa (Photo by Marijan Murat/picture alliance via Getty Images)
Just 27% of poll respondents had a very or somewhat favorable rating for Gavin Newsom, a staggeringly low number for someone who's made trolling President Trump and failing at his job his only priorities. He came in just one percentage point ahead of AI, at 26%. But his party didn't fare much better.
Democrats scored just a 30% total favorability rating, while 52% of respondents had "very negative" or "somewhat negative" views of that party. And despite months of news stories, messaging, protests, and outrage from the political left, ICE is more popular than Democrats. Significantly more popular.
Per the survey, 38% of people had a positive view of ICE, compared to just 30% for Democrats as a whole and 27% for Gavin Newsom, and the net favorability rating at -18 was again, substantially better than the Democrats' -22 rating. EvenKamala Harrishad a lower favorability rating, despite doing nothing of any significance over the last 16 months.
Here's how the results look visually:
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