In what was already a bad year turning worse for him, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has been hit with yet more awful news to follow up on the mess that has been numerous key Democrat leaders and politicians retiring, particularly in New Hampshire: a new poll shows his influence is increasingly slipping in New York, and AOC could crush him in a Senate match up.
Such is the news that comes from the Honan Strategy Group (HSG), which conducted a poll in New York on behalf of the Jewish Voters Action Network (JVAC), and found that Sen. Schumer has lost a massive amount of support and would handily lose a hypothetical primary matchup between him and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY).
Stunningly, the poll found that Sen. Schumer’s support is slipping amongst likely Democrat voters in the Big Apple, who, the New York Post reports, with a whopping 54 percent of those likely Democrat voters backing AOC in a hypothetical electoral matchup and only 33 percent backing Sen. Schumer, a monumental 21 points of preference leaning in AOC’s direction.
Further, the jaw-dropping poll even found that Jewish voters in New York back the 35-year-old congresswoman, known mainly for her radical leftist views, by a 12-point differential, with 45 percent backing AOC and just 33 percent backing the five-term senator from New York, though 17 percent remain undecided.
While Sen. Schumer is not back up for re-election until 2028, postponing the doom that could come from that dramatic polling, the results do show significant problems for him and the slice of the Democratic Party that he represents. Namely, as he has relied on Jewish voters as a key base of support throughout his five-decade-long political career, a shift away from him suggests serious problems with his messaging and platform.
Commenting on the matter to the New York Post, Maury Litwack, co-founder of Jewish Voters Action Network, explained just how big this news is, saying, “This is a massive wake-up call for Schumer.” He then added, “He’s not only bleeding support in the Democratic Party overall but also in the Jewish community.”
Continuing, Litwack further explained that Sen. Schumer’s seeming refusal to take a clear side as the anti-Semitic protests have roiled the nation has led to his increasingly lackluster levels of support from Jewish voters, saying, “The leading Jewish elected official in the nation did not step up in a moment of rising antisemitism — and the poll reflects that.”
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Commenters on X (formerly Twitter) loved the news. One such poster, for example, joking about the results and typical Congressional reactions to outrageous incidents, said in a comment on the poll results, “Schumer should send a strongly worded letter complaining about those poll results!”
Similarly, another commenter noted that the poll results reflect quite poorly on Schumer’s likeability, saying, “it’s so funny how somehow chuck is so bad at his job he made primarying someone like him potentially viable. hell if he keeps messing up and this lead lasts until 2028, i’d say it could get into guaranteed territory”
Watch Schumer squirm when pressed on lying about Biden’s condition here:
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