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AOC Wallops Schumer in Potential 2028 NY Senate Primary, Poll Finds
A recent poll showed that Representative Ocasio-Cortez, one of the most progressive members of Congress, would best Senator Schumer in a hypothetical 2028 Democratic Party Senate primary. Is this a sign that, as the rest of the country is moving right ideologically, Democrats are moving further left?
From The Daily Signal. Rep.Ā Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., would trounce Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., in aĀ hypothetical 2028 Democratic Party Senate primary, according to a poll conducted by Data for Progress, a self-described āprogressiveā think tank.
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The left-wing group surveyed 767 likely primary voters in such a New York Democrat Senate primary contest from March 26 to March 31.
The poll showed the New York congresswoman leading the longtime Democrat senator by a whopping 19 points. AOCāas Ocasio-Cortez is popularly knownādrew 55% support in a hypothetical 2028 Senate primary, compared with Schumerās 36%. The remaining 9% of respondents were unsure.
Schumer also garnered the lowest favorability rating of all the Democrat politicians tested, with just 29% viewing him with a very favorable opinion. By contrast, Sen.Ā Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., marshaled the most favorable rating, with 57% of poll respondents having a very favorable opinion of him, while 50% of those polled had a very favorable opinion of Ocasio-Cortez.
Schumer was heavily criticized by many fellow Democrats after he voted in mid-March in support of the Republican-backed budgetary continuing resolution that kept the federal government from shutting down.
āI knew it was a difficult choice, and I knew Iād get a lot of criticism for my choice. But I felt, as a leader, I had to do it,ā SchumerĀ said onĀ ABCās āThe Viewā about voting to keep the government open. The New York senator expressed reservations about of letting President Donald Trump decide what parts of the federal government were essential or not had the government shut down.
Schumer was joined byĀ nine other membersĀ of his party in the Senate on that vote.
Ocasio-Cortez criticized the Senate Democrat leaderās decision,Ā telling the press, āI think there is a deep sense of outrage and betrayal.ā
She described Schumer as essentially bowing down to tech magnate andĀ Department of Government EfficiencyĀ head Elon Musk.
āJust to see Senate Democrats even consider acquiescing to Elon Musk, I think, is a huge slap in the face. And I think there is a wide sense of betrayal if things proceed as currently planned,āĀ Ocasio-Cortez said.
While Ocasio-Cortezās ambitions remain formally unclear, itās worth noting that Schumer himself was elevated from the lower chamber to the upper chamber of Congress. Schumer represented New York in the House of Representatives from 1981 until 1999, when he became a senator from the Empire State. He has been the leader of the Senate Democrats since 2017.
At 74, Schumer remains relatively young for a profession that has seen members serving even into their late 80s or early 90s.Ā By those standards, Ocasio-Cortez, who is just 35, has decades to ascend the congressional hierarchy even without displacing Schumer.
In general, Democrat primary voters appear broadly unhappy with how their party has handled the return to power of the Trump administration. Some 84% of the voters surveyed said Democrats in Washington were ānot doing enough to stand up to Trump and the MAGA movement.ā
What do you think of the results of this poll? Share your prayers about AOC, Schumer, and the Democrat party below.
This article was originally published at The Daily Signal. Used with permission. Photo Credit: nrkbeta – Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ SXSW 2019, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=77303594 and United States Senate – https://www.flickr.com/photos/sdmc/27720474940/in/album-72157667655342524/, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=56927040.
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