In a Senate primary contest, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., is “bleeding support” from the New York and Democrat Jewish community, giving Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., an eye-popping edge, according to a new poll.
A five-term incumbent, Schumer would be trounced by a Ocasio-Cortez in a Democrat primary for the Senate, the Honan Strategy Group’s (HSG) poll conducted for the Jewish Voters Action Network found, the New York Post reported Sunday.
“This is a massive wake-up call for Schumer,” JVAC co-founder Maury Litwack told the Post. “He’s not only bleeding support in the Democratic Party overall, but also in the Jewish community.”
A silver lining in the poll is the fact Ocasio-Cortez, 35, might have greater designs on the presidency in 2028 and not on running for Senate.
Schumer, 74, trails Ocasio-Cortez by 21 points (54%-33%) among likely Democrat New York voters, the poll found.
Among New York’s Jewish Democrats, Ocasio-Cortez, who supports boycott, divestment, and sanctions against Israel and has called the war on Hamas “genocide,” still leads Schumer, who is Jewish, by 12 points (45%-33% with 17% undecided), according to the poll.
The results are more a distrust of Schumer than full-on support for Ocasio-Cortez, Litwack told the Post.
“The leading Jewish elected official in the nation did not step up in a moment of rising antisemitism — and the poll reflects that,” she said.
A Schumer spokesperson did not respond to the Post’s request for comment.
The HSG-JVAC poll was conducted among 1,136 New York Democrats from May 15-18, and the results have a margin of error of plus or minus 2.89 percentage points.
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