Shock poll shows AOC ahead of Chuck Schumer by a staggering amount in hypothetical match-up

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Shock poll shows AOC ahead of Chuck Schumer by a staggering amount in hypothetical match-up

Daily Mail
By JON MICHAEL RAASCH
4 April 2025



Progressive 'Squad' leader Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has just received amazing news should she plan on running for the U.S. Senate.

A shocking new poll has just found that the young progressive icon has loads more support among likely Democratic voters in New York than longtime Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.

Schumer, 74, has been sinking in popularity among Democrats since joining forces with Republicans to vote for a funding measure earlier this year.

Had Schumer and some Democrats not backed the bill the government almost certainly would've shut down, leading to a new batch of headaches for the lawmaker who has served New York in the Senate since 1999.

But many Democrats, mainly progressives like AOC, called on Schumer to play hardball with the GOP.

The 'Squad' leader and many in the party wanted the Senate minority leader to vote against the funding and force a shutdown in Donald Trump's first 100 days, but Schumer backed off.

Now, a new survey from liberal pollster Data for Progress is showing that Schumer may have made the wrong decision should he want to keep his job.

The results found that Ocasio-Cortez, 35, is leading the veteran senator by almost 20 points in a hypothetical head-to-head matchup should they both run in the 2028 New York Senate primary.

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