New Poll: Voters Want To Chuck Chuck Schumer

In a new YouGov poll that should be read by all those on the Senate, Minority leader Chuck Schumer loses to "Someone else." Only 10% want him as Majority Leader, 57% of poll respondents want literally anyone else.

The progressive organization Indivisible asked for YouGov to conduct the poll on Senate Democratic leadership. In a Bluesky post the No Kings organizers said, "This data only corroborates what we already knew: Voters see Chuck Schumer as the face of an old, unpopular politics. It’s time to unify behind a less divisive leader for the future."

Schumer's favorability is the same as the Republican Party sitting at 57% unfavorable. Only Donald Trump is less favorable with 60%.

Another interesting question asked, if under Schumer "Have Democrats have done enough to hold Big Tech accountable?" Big Tech is a all encompassing word not necessarily just Ai or Social media so hard to read completely what that means to the respondents but 50% say that they have not done enough. One can hope that Democrats will take that to heart as they are in some level of power and will likely start getting more donations from Ai companies hoping to not be regulated.

You can read the entire poll here. The survey was done online with 1000 respondents that was "weighted according to gender, age, race/ethnicity, education, and U.S. Census region based on voter registration lists."

https://cdn.sanity.io/files/ifn0l6bs/production/63f567c9d8c9eb43fbdaf4d408d979ca74003729.pdf

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