A new report warns that the Democrat Party’s embrace of abortion up to birth and leftist rhetoric on issues like LGBTQ has alienated voters, with 70% of Americans now viewing the party as “out of touch,” according to polling from a center-left advocacy group.

The findings, detailed in the report “Deciding to Win” released Monday by Welcome, come after Democrats’ electoral setbacks and urge a sharp pivot away from what it calls “unpopular party orthodoxies” that prioritize cultural battles over economic concerns.

The group, which consulted hundreds of thousands of voters over six months, argues that the party’s shift leftward since 2012 — including surging support for policies like wiping out state abortion limits, which rose from two-thirds to 98% of Democrats co-sponsoring such bills from 2013 to 2024 — has fueled perceptions of elitism and eroded support among working-class and minority voters.

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“70% of voters think the Democratic Party is ‘out of touch,'” the report states, with most respondents believing Democrats over-prioritize abortion, “protecting the rights of LGBTQ+ Americans” and “fighting climate change” at the expense of “securing the border” or “lowering the rate of crime.”

From 2013 to 2024, the share of Americans seeing the party as “too liberal” climbed from 47% to 55%, per an average of public polls, while the perception of Republicans as “too conservative” dipped slightly.

Pro-life advocates seized on the data as evidence that the party’s hardline stance on abortion — a cornerstone of its radical platform — is driving the disconnect.

“The Democratic Party’s radical abortion agenda, which demands taxpayer funding for the killing of unborn children up to birth, has made them the party of death, not life,” said Brian Burch, president of CatholicVote, in a statement tying the report to broader voter alienation. “This poll confirms what we’ve seen: 70% of Americans see through the Democrats’ out-of-touch extremism on life issues, and it’s costing them elections and the trust of everyday families.”

The Welcome report highlights a stark demographic divide, noting Democrats have gained ground only among self-described “white liberals” while losing non-college-educated white voters and even more dramatically among non-whites across education levels, based on Catalist voter data analysis since 2012. It points to a 1,044% increase in party platform mentions of LGBTQ from 2012 to 2024, alongside a 63% drop in references to “men” and a complete elimination of “fathers,” as examples of rhetoric that resonates with affluent, highly educated coastal elites but repels the broader electorate.

Greg Schultz, who managed Joe Biden’s 2020 primary campaign, echoed the critique in the report: “For the last 20 years, Democrats have just misunderstood how you actually win elections… I thought Biden had proven in the 2020 primary that the base of the Democratic Party is a 58-year old woman without a college degree. But when you hear people in DC say ‘the base,’ they mean white intellectuals that live in a few coastal cities.”

The analysis recommends Democrats nominate candidates open to bipartisan votes on conservative priorities like immigration and crime, while returning to “Obama-era positioning” that emphasizes the economy over cultural flashpoints. Simon Bazelon, the report’s principal author, told Semafor: “I felt like there had been a real lack of reckoning among what actually happened.”

Former Illinois Rep. Cheri Bustos, a Democrat, endorsed the findings in a foreword, writing: “The Democratic Party had better listen — for the good of our nation.”

The report’s release coincides with ongoing Republican gains on social issues, including abortion restrictions in multiple states following the 2022 overturning of Roe v. Wade, which pro-life groups credit with mobilizing voters against what they call Democratic “extremism.” Welcome’s polling, conducted through October 2025, underscores a party in flux as it grapples with rebuilding its brand ahead of future cycles.