Senate Democrat leader faces serious threat from Congresswoman MAGA hates, poll shows

It’s not even close.

New Yorkers appear to be on board for Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to unseat Chuck Schumer in the Senate.

That’s according to a new poll from the liberal firm Data for Progress that shows Ocasio-Cortez up 55% of likely Democratic voters said they supported or leaned toward supporting her, compared to only 36% who said the same about Schumer.

“This poll really does show that Democrats are united in just wanting to stand up, wanting to fight, wanting to see someone taking a stand for them,” Danielle Deiseroth, executive director of Data for Progress, told Politico.

The Democratic base is angry.

Not just at President Donald Trump, Elon Musk and the MAGA movement. Rank-and-file Democrats are mad at their own leaders and increasingly agitating to replace them.

Democrats in Arizona and Georgia pushed out their party chairs. And Schumer postponed a book tour in the face of protests amid calls from progressives that he face a primary challenge.

The losing party after a presidential election often spends time in the wilderness, but the visceral anger among Democrats toward their party leaders is reaching a level reminiscent of the Tea Party movement that swept out Republican incumbents 15 years ago.

Schumer faced the most serious backlash after he refused to block a Republican-led government spending bill and shut down the government. Schumer said blocking the bill would have backfired and played into Trump’s hands, but many on the left saw it as capitulation.

AOC has often been a target of Trump supporters.

“My job is to be more than just an activist,” Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin said after the Democrat launched a tour with Sen. Bernie Sanders.

“It is to answer the call when there’s an immigration raid and we need to figure out where our people are. All of those things require me to be more than just an AOC.”

Slotkin’s response was also met with applause from the audience at a town hall in Flint, Michigan.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.