Schumer Primary Talk Heats Up After Poll Shows AOC Well Ahead in Potential 2028 Match-Up
“Replacing Chuck Schumer with AOC would be an incredible upgrade. I guess we’ll have to wait four more years…”
The Democrat base has been in a state of perpetual rage since Donald Trump came onto the national scene during his first run for president. It’s only gotten worse since he was elected to serve a second term, with Democrats now turning on each other over the party’s failure to stop him in 2024 and various factions trying to establish themselves as its next Resistance™ leader.
After Sen. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) caved to Republicans on the Continuing Resolution in order to avoid a Schumer Shutdown, Democrat tensions boiled over, and talk of a 2028 primary challenge to Schumer began, with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) being one of the more prominent names mentioned as a potential primary opponent.
Though AOC has been asked about it in interviews, she has remained cagey, instead focusing on her tour with fellow Democrat Socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and trying to emphasize ways she believes Democrats in Congress should be pushing back now.
Whatever the case may be, Democrat-aligned special interest groups aren’t wasting any time testing the waters, with one left-wing polling firm releasing a new poll that shows AOC ahead of Schumer by double digits in a potential primary match-up:
The survey by the liberal firm Data for Progress, first shared with POLITICO, found that 55 percent of Democratic likely voters said they supported or leaned toward supporting Rep. Ocasio-Cortez, while 36 percent backed or leaned toward backing Sen. Schumer. Nine percent were undecided.
The poll is the latest sign that Schumer’s standing among the Democratic base has taken a hit since he voted to advance a GOP funding bill last month that avoided a government shutdown. The fact that Data for Progress conducted and released the poll also underscores that liberal organizations are continuing to look for ways to prod Schumer to take a tougher stance against President Donald Trump.
NEW: In a hypothetical matchup for the 2028 U.S. Senate primary in New York, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez leads Chuck Schumer by a 19-point margin. pic.twitter.com/PxitdlN6MO
— Data for Progress (@DataProgress) April 4, 2025
The poll follows one from two weeks ago from CNN that showed AOC at the top of the list of Democrat politicos who the party faithful believe “best reflects the core values” of Democrats. Only “No one” got more votes:
Democrats, who overwhelmingly consider Trump too extreme, have yet to consolidate around any one-party leader to serve as a counterpoint. Asked in an open-ended question to name the Democratic leader they feel “best reflects the core values” of the party, 10% of Democratic-aligned adults name New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 9% former vice president Kamala Harris, 8% Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and 6% House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. Another 4% each name former president Barack Obama and Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett, with Schumer joining a handful of others at 2%.
More than 30% didn’t offer a name in response. “No one,” one respondent answered. “That’s the problem.”
Needless to say, the woke left is stoked:
Replacing Chuck Schumer with AOC would be an incredible upgrade. I guess we’ll have to wait four more years… pic.twitter.com/bQYINbN3sQ
— Bhaskar Sunkara (@sunraysunray) April 4, 2025
What I mean is that what AOC is doing is leadership— and people see that
— Zephyr Teachout (@ZephyrTeachout) April 4, 2025
While it’s still early on in the process, and though Schumer has decades more experience than AOC, I wouldn’t count her out.
An AOC challenge would be one he should take seriously. After all, she made it to Congress by defeating a deeply entrenched Democrat leader (then-House Democrat Caucus Chair Joseph Crowley) back in 2018, and if the money, mood, and sentiment of a majority of New York voters are still against Schumer in 2028, she may have a decent shot of defying the odds once again.
Besides, who wouldn’t want to see an AOC/Schumer dance contest? Warning — not for the squeamish:
Chucky really knows how to show up when it matters most
pic.twitter.com/H6RXZtcnQN
— Dov Hikind (@HikindDov) August 22, 2021
AOC plays the fool at Jamaal Bowman rally. Then she was chased back to her campaign bus by the Hamas crowd.
Not a good day for the Squad.pic.twitter.com/XSwtHvCJJA
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) June 25, 2024
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I believe it was the closing scene of cool hand Luke showing an automobile tire crushing the mirrored sunglasses of a law enforcement officer.
If Schumer loses the primary, I would love to do up a video where the closing scene is an automobile tire crushing a pair of half-glasses.
Yes!
One of the few things more frightening & revolting than sending Schumer back to the Senate would be sending AOC in his place.
So then, stupid, incompetent, and radical against experienced, crafty, and vicious.
And the unwashed may well go for stupid, incompetent, and radical.
America doesn’t grow enough corn for this faceoff.
Here’s why AOC running for this seat is no laughing matter. https://www.jns.org/aoc-and-the-diminishing-prospects-for-jewish-democrats/
If Republicans choose to ignore AOC and her plans to primary Schumer, they better do so at their peril.
Should Ms. AOC run and defeat the odious Mr. Schumer, the Pubs should ensure that Scott Presler spends the entire general election in New York signing up Pub voters. To flip New York for the Pub senator candidate (the Pubs will need to nominate someone who is not a doofus; their ability to do that is questionable) AND to flip the New York presidential vote for Mr. Vance would be glorious.
AOC getting the nomination would create an opportunity for the GOP, if they could find someone moderate enough to have some crossover appeal. Given AOC’s anti-Israel stances, a strongly pro-Israel candidate might work.
Will we get a solid MAGA GOP senator? No way, it’s still NY, and nominating such a candidate would likely give AOC the seat. But we might be able to get someone that is at least not openly hostile to the Trump administration if the Dem civil war continues.
The republicans would also have to avoid a primary. It never fails that a weak candidate runs in a primary harming the other candidate in the general. Look at New Jersey, Chitarelli should be the sole republican candidate. Now there’s a primary. what a waste of time and money.
NY always elects the D candidate for Senate. That’s why Bill ‘n’ Hillary moved to Chappaqua NY after his presidency was over, so Hillary could be given the Dem nomination (another woman who was expected to get it was unceremoniously dumped by party officials) which guaranteed her the win in the general. If AOC wins the D nomination, she probably makes it to the Senate. Crazy.
She’s street smart and vicious too. She didn’t get where she is (young, rich and famous) by being dumb, maybe playing dumb but not being dumb.
Republicans have won here for governor, but never for senator in my memory.
Do you not remember Al D’Amato?!
Ah yes you’re right, Senator Pothole. We’ve got lots of potholes again, maybe there’s a chance.
She is dumb, and the guy running her is evil.
No she’s not dumb, it’s an act. I saw her grilling someone in a House committee, and she was sharp. Maybe someone else wrote all the questions, but she seemed to be on top of it.
She’s not going to run. Her entire schtick requires her to stay in a totally safe environment with no Democrat ever actually digging up dirt on her.
Not to mention the fact that she’s never had to run an actual REAL campaign. She lucked into office on the fact that her Democrat opponent was stupid and complacent and treated her like the joke she was, but she got lucky. Since then she’s never faced an actual election challenge and has just skated through the primary in a district that wouldn’t vote for the reincarnation of George Washington if he put a ‘R’ next to his name.
A statewide primary against an experienced gutter fighter like Schumer would destroy her. They both know it, that’s why she’s kept her mouth shut about this.
An eminently reasonable analysis. Don’t know why your getting down votes not that they really matter.
AOC is a narcissist. She want’s affection (although she won’t date you) and power (without accompanying responsibility). From that perspective she might want to be in the senate since they basically do nothing, get on tv a lot, and only have to stand for reelection every 6 years. Since she is young she can basically wait till Shumer drops dead before running.
Here’s Jonathan Tobin’s take. He’s no Chuck S fan, but he does not see this as a positive for American Jews or for Israel. https://www.jns.org/aoc-and-the-diminishing-prospects-for-jewish-democrats/
Shumer is like the current leader of the ADL. More progressive than Jew. Wants to get invited to all the good cocktail parties not realizing he will never even be accepted. Meanwhile his antics contribute to the creation of a negative impression about Jews in this country among certain demographics.
The progressive have wholeheartedly adopted intersectionalism which paints Jews as white affiliated oppressors. As such you can no longer be a Jew and a progressive. Period end of story. This means you can no longer be a Jew and a democrat. You don’t have to be a Republican. But you can’t be a democrat because too much of their base and certainly a majority of their activists are progressives.
This isn’t a positive for Israel or for American Jews. The problem is American Jews built and support much of the progressive brand. They have only themselves to blame if they care at all.
Zephyr Teachout is one of those names that’s both revealing leftist and utterly on point – lots of wind.
Imagine how inverted your worldview must be to consider AOC to be an upgrade from Chuck Schumer.
Looks fade and AOC’s appeal is completely aesthetic. Her policies are utterly marxist, which reveals that an economics degree from B.U. isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on.
The fact that after getting a putative degree in economics, AOC couldn’t get hired for any job that actually required training as an economist tells you all you need to know.
Done rigorously (e.g., micro- and macro-economic theory, statistics, econometrics, etc.), an economics degree can be something that employers can put to good use in many fields. Done lazily (Marxist economics or the various woke pseudo economics courses), the degree is essentially just another worthless Angry Studies one.
Shapely female (granted, buckteeth, but I’ve seen worse) hispanic couldn’t get hired by any company with a BA in Econ? I don’t believe that, there were too many companies that would give an automatic job offer to such a “minority”. Or else she was on some type of terrorist watchlist already.
I got a MA from MA in Mathematics, Wasn’t all impressed with the school. I learned more by working for the IT department than I did taking classes and left the school early without a doctorate.
BU used to be basically a commuter school for NY students. Not sure what it is like now.
Northeastern had the same reputation, and look at them now! They’ve become at least hard to get admitted to.
The way things work, it would not be a surprise to see her unseat Schumer and, like Obama, run for president after 2 years. The difference, however, would be that she would achieve the final repudiation of the pretenders what have grifted the country with their anti-Americanism and zeal for money.
Run AOC. Put her face next to Obama’s. Completely unprepared to do anything other that destruction. The perfect pair.
In one of the worst presidential election landscapes for a Democrat in decades, Kamala Harris – who literally couldn’t string together more than two coherent sentences in a row – still won 48.3% of the popular vote and came within a point and a half from beating Trump. AOC is a retard. But, she’s more articulate than Harris with a LOT more natural charisma. In an election cycle where a GOP candidate was facing strong political headwinds, AOC could absolutely win. We should be careful what we wish for.
If Democrats persist with their extremism, after all of their lawfare/corruption exposed, and with her scary lack of brains and accomplishments, it could be the final act needed to put these Jacobins behind us.
Fortunately, the information cat is out of the bag, and people are less prone to believe the act. Hating America is no longer a winning strategy. She is just as fake as the others, and hiding her resentful appeal as saving democracy will fail.
Who knows in the end. But just like Trump is in Act 3 of his play, one can see her as Act 3 of Democratic demise.
IMO if the Dems want to win and AOC plays her cards right, she coukd by the Dems’ VP candidate in 2028, helping to unify the party behind a more moderate top of the ticket.
People are already floating Cory Booker as the presidential candidate after his 25-hour coke-fueled gripe session. And then there’s Newsom attempting to rebrand himself and distance himself from all his failures. I wouldn’t be surprised if the witch from Michigan throws her hat in the ring.
Grasping at straws. Booker is very progressive. Ran for president once and got no traction. Floating Booker (god I just got a scatology reference from that phrasing) is equivalent to throwing crap at a wall and seeing if it sticks. Flavor of the month.
The only democrats I’m concerned about at this time are Shapiro and Fetterman. Both look moderate vs the democratic crazies. That would work against them in the primaries when the crazies rule but for them in the general election when attracting independents is critical.
“Floating Booker”
No guano. Scatologically speaking, floating booker would be an excremental waste and would end as a coprolite on the dunghill of history.
Exactly. I’m old enough to remember when El Rushbo said that it would be better for Obama to be nominated than Hillary because he’d be easier to beat. How’d that work out?
I despised thunder thighs so much I voted for Obama in the democratic primary in MA and I’d do it again.
The Democrat men are optimized for talking to thieves and the Democrat women are optimized for talking to infants.
Too glib by half. Obama was not talking to thieves and Pelosi was not talking to infants.
They reversed roles. Obama campaigned in an estrogen cloud, and Pelosi in stock trading skill.
Which kind of shoots your professment down in a heap.
Basically trading one a-hole for a bigger, dumber a-hole…
Occasional-Cortex is a perfect standard-bearer for the wretched Dhimmi-crat Party. A manifestly witless, dim-witted, dumb-as-rocks, narcissistic, too lazy/stupid to succeed in the private sector demagogue. She’s now found attention, fame and wealth as a miserable and corrosive apparatchik.
“… liberal organizations are continuing to look for ways to prod Schumer to take a tougher stance against President Donald Trump…”
I believe that these polls (more than most polls outside Rasmussen’s) are political theater rather than meaningful information gathering.
We are a long, long way from the 2028 elections and extrapolating that far forward is useless. For example use 2018 information to forecast 2021, or 2022 to forecast 2025.
Why in the intervening time, a Martian could land on earth, forge a Hawaiian birth certificate and run a billion-and-a-half-dollar 90-day campaign and win.
AOC is the definitive poster child for the fall of the US. When the book is written I look for her to be prominently featured. I fervently hope that I’ll be long gone and dead by the time this happens but I’m not holding my breath since the fall is happening far faster than I predicted 20 years go.
What’s remarkable is that the NY rino party (and its step-child – the conservative party) have not offered any discussion let alone the names of potential candidates. … I cringe at the idea of names from the past being resurrected (including current and past county executives) …
Why wouldn’t the “conservative party” float a platform even without naming a candidate ? … Could have as facets:
“Voting Integrity” (see auditny.com; advocate residents w NY IDs only, and election district tallies should reconcile to county tallies, and ultimately the results certified in Albany), and “no gerrymandering”;
“Term Limits” to be adopted for each and every elective office (no more than eight(8) years) and no individual shall serve more than a total of 15 years in all NYS “elective offices”;
“Judicial Integrity” remove (and disbar) all judges who breach their oaths to the US and NYS Constitutions, commit a felony or acquire more than 11 points on their driver license; only natural citizens born in NYS can be appointed or elected to any NYS Judicial Office; set judicial terms of office at six(6) years with a lifetime term limit of 12years;
“Double(+) Dipping” no civil servant or elected officeholder shall vest in more than one post retirement pension and health scheme;
“Annual Cognitive and Mental Health” examinations to be required for all seeking or holding NYS elective office;
“Constitutional carry” to be adopted and made part of the NYS Constitution, and the “right to keep and bear arms” shall include but not be limited to all bearable arms issued to any individual or team members of “law enforcement”, the “national guard” or any department or agency or NYS or the Federal Governments;
DEI (and all social engineering agendas) to be abolished and excluded from the governmental powers of any political entity within NYS, and NYS in its Constitution recognizes there are only “two genders”; and NYS abolishes and makes illegal “health emergency concentration camps” (or repurposes the same for “defective politicians and judges”);
“Sunset Law” adopted for all existing statutes and new legislation (no law, rule or regulation to exceed 10 year terms unless originated de novo in the appropriate legislative committees);
Repeal five(5) NYS Code sections concurrent with every new law (or revision to existing statute) enacted; …
Be creative.
Generally OK with your list, but I don’t think we should exclude a legacy American born in NJ while allowing an anchor baby born in NY to be a judge in NY. I think that provision would cause more adverse outcome than benefits.
NY is full of morons. The polls are by MSM designed to make people believe who to vote for. Schumer’s next election is not soon, but the Soros and other Globalist Dems are gearing up to get a cheaper young moron to replace him that they can control. AOC is easily a controlled moron.
As should everyone else. AOC represents the Khmer Rouge faction of the Party, the faction that is ascendant. By contrast Schumer comes from the Soviet Politburo faction, which is ageing out and losing influence. Like her genocidal base AOC wants the blood of “racists” to flow in the streets – and is not shy about publicly calling for it.
Don’t underestimate her the way German voters once underestimated a certain Austrian corporal.
“AOC represents the Khmer Rouge faction of the Party, the faction that is ascendant. By contrast Schumer comes from the Soviet Politburo faction,”
Totally superb analogy.
Indeed, the “maniac x stodge” gambit has happened before, and can happen again,
AOC should forget about measuring Schumer’s office for new drapes. 2028 is three years out and in politics a week is an eternity.
All part of the Democrats’ new strategy: The dumbest, most radical, and most hateful among us.
AOC is future for NY? Just when you thought it couldn’t get worse.
Will someone tell me why they think AOC is stupid? Don’t think there was nobody else who wanted the career she’s having. She surely had to claw some people’s eyes out and outsmart others, all on the leftist side of course.
She never had a job that “used” her economics degree. That had to have been a choice. A shapely hispanic female with a legit college degree could surely have gotten corporate job offers. A double minority, and a decent talker besides. Her lack of professional experience was from some other reason, I don’t know what.
Obama wanted to nominate Mark Kelly for president in 2024. I am afraid of Chris Murphy, just reelected senator from Connecticut. Both smart white guys. If they have to fight it out with a vicious AOC (and I don’t think she’s dumb at all), it’s only good for the Republicans. The 2028 presidential election will be close at best, and we need the Dems to tear each other up.
AOC is not moron unlike many Dems such as Jasmine Crockett. That she would so far ahead of Schumer shows what a cesspool NY has become. and how racist Democrat voters are.. There is no room for White Males in Democrat party.. If Trump can remove a substantial percentage of illegal aliens scum from our country and hopefully the next President is someone like Rubio, the Democrats will not win the Presidency for a long time since they are nothing more than anti-White racists. .
Rich basher All Out Commie flew 1st class to AZ for Bernie’s Down With The 3Houses Oligarchs rally. Other flyers said she was rude and entitled as she sipped wine as the great unwashed boarded.
7-Watt Sandy for Senator. It would at least stop the Democrats from throwing around the word “gravitas.”