Democrats in retreat, with voters saying that the party is no longer a 'friend of the working class': report

The focus groups were split into three categories, per Politico: "young men in battleground states who voted for Biden in 2020 and Trump in 2024; voters in battleground states who voted for Biden in 2020 but didn't vote at all in 2024; and voters in blue states who had previously voted for Democrats, a third party candidate or didn't vote in 2020 but voted for Trump in 2024."

"This weakness they see, [Democrats] not getting things done, not being able to actually fight for people - is something that needs to be figured out," director of polling and analytics at Navigator Research, Rachel Russell, told Politico. "It might not be the message, it might be the policy. It might be something a little bit deeper that has to be addressed by the party."

Sen. Bernie Sanders, an Independent, has publicly criticized the Democratic Party for its stance on working-class voters. 

Fox News' Jasmine Baehr contributed to this report.