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US POLITICS
WHO ARE THE FUTURE?
TNR ... Shock Poll: Chuck Schumer is in Big, Big Trouble
AOC more popular than Schumer!
WHO ARE THE FUTURE?
TNR ... Shock Poll: Chuck Schumer is in Big, Big Trouble
AOC more popular than Schumer!
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez smiles
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Original article: https://newrepublic.com/post/193626/shock-poll-chuck-schumer-big-big-trouble
Peter Burgess COMMENTARY
It is my understanding that there are 'Senators' and there are 'Representatives' in Washington who together make up the Congress.
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) has been a breath of fresh air since she was elected to Congress in 2020 ??? in a house race that favored an old powerful established 'machine' democrat.
AOC has proved to be a 'fast learner' and has made good progress within the Washington system. She has a brain and uses it. Her alignment with Senator Sanders has helped, but her own competence is the kay factor explaining her progress.
I am 85 years old ... more than half a century older than AOC. Learning from history is fine ... but putting your effort into replicating the past is dumb. My impression is that AOC understands the difference.
Most of the people in Congress ... both Senators and Congressfolk want to stabilise a 'status quo' around their own supporters, but this is not the real opportunity at this time in hisory.
As I see it the US economy has been managed for a very long time in a very incompetent way ... maybe OK for the 1950s, but not very good more than 80 years later!
The Trump idea that change is needed is right ... but the change that Trump has in mind is wrong.
There are a lot of things that need fixing, not least of which is chronic economic inequality which has been getting worse and worse for more four decades.
The fact that inequality has been able to get worse and worse for so long is not because one signle thing is wrong, but a multitue of things that need to be addressed. Sadly, most people are not very good at 'system' thinking.
Peter Burgess
A new poll suggests that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez would easily defeat the Democratic Senate Leader if she were to launch a primary campaign against him.
April 4, 2025/12:16 p.m. ET
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
A new poll has Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez handily beating Senator Chuck Schumer head-to-head in the 2028 New York primary.
Fifty-five percent of likely Democratic voters preferred Ocasio-Cortez according to the survey, which was conducted by the liberal group Data for Progress, while 36 percent preferred Schumer. Nine percent went undecided.
This underscores the reputational damage Schumer has taken in the early days of Trump’s second term, particularly after he decided to advance a GOP spending bill without seeking concessions rather than shut down the government, completely capitulating to Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s extremist agenda. Schumer argued that shutting the government down was a worse look than giving Trump a blank check, but the Democratic base disagrees.
“I think that’s absolutely wrong. Republicans control the House, they control the Senate, they control the Oval Office. They’d be voting against our measure to keep the government open,” Senator Jeff Merkley said at the time. “I think America would understand that this is a Republican shutdown, if there was a shutdown.… You don’t stop a bully by handing over your lunch money, and you don’t stop a tyrant by giving them more power.”
This poll also emphasizes the ideological struggle that rages on within the Democratic Party. While Schumer and other moderates cancel book tours and blame the party’s “woke” left, Ocasio-Cortez had been barnstorming towns with Bernie Sanders, railing against oligarchy and making the progressive case for the party’s future.
Schumer’s approval rating among Democrats is currently 48 percent, the lowest it’s been since 2019.