Cruel Summer for Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson As Multiple Polls Show Plummeting Ratings
Reporter: “Despite your efforts like this, your approval rating is at 37%. That is President Donald Trump territory. Why do you think that is?”
Looks like Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s got some competition for the title of most unpopular socialist mayor in America.
Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson is hot on his heels, with two different new polls showing plummeting ratings – with one of them even indicating a majority of voters in the solidly blue city think she should resign or be removed:
A new Change Washington poll conducted August 13-17 found only 22 percent of Seattle registered voters approve of Wilson’s job performance, while 66 percent disapprove and 12 percent are unsure.
Even more damaging for the progressive mayor, 60 percent said Wilson should resign or be removed from office, compared with 30 percent who said she should remain and 10 percent who were unsure.
Those findings are reinforced by a separate poll conducted by Fulcrum Strategy Group for the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce days earlier. That survey of 500 registered Seattle voters, conducted August 10-13, found Wilson’s favorability had fallen to 37 percent, down from 57 percent in April, a 20-point collapse in four months. Sixty-two percent now view Wilson unfavorably, including 42 percent who view her strongly unfavorably.
Where were voters most dissatisfied with Wilson’s performance, according to the Seattle Metro poll? Matters of public safety:
On public safety, voters gave the Wilson administration a “D” or “D+” rating on all six issues tested.
Those issues included:
- Providing transparent information to the public
- Reducing crime and homeless camps
- Making the city safer
- Managing the response to the Bite of Seattle shooting at Seattle Center
- Addressing public drug use.
During a press conference earlier this week after a ceremonial event that kicked off a public transit project, Wilson was asked by a KOMO News reporter about her falling ratings:
Reporter: Despite your efforts like this, your approval rating is at 37%. That is President Donald Trump territory. Why do you think that is?
Wilson: [Laughs] So I’m not going to speak — anyone can do a poll so people can look at the poll and interpret what they want, but my priority right now is delivering for the people of Seattle, and that means projects like this where we are putting paint on the ground, and we are improving our transportation.
Second Reporter: That same poll says a 20-point drop, a 20-point drop in just a matter of months. How do you explain that?
Wilson: So I think there are a lot of concerns right now about public safety, which I understand – public safety is an extremely high priority for my office. We’re just about to start a search for our new police chief. So I understand we’re in a moment of uncertainty in the city where a lot of people are, you know, wanting to see action, and we are going to be providing that action.
Watch:
Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson’s support has dropped sharply since spring, according to new polling that also shows voters giving her administration low marks on public safety.
The poll puts Wilson’s favorability at 37%, down 20 percentage points since April. About 62% of voters… pic.twitter.com/hjP2wkKaFi
— KOMO News (@komonews) August 20, 2026
The voter dissatisfaction with Wilson comes amid more job losses and a “shrinking job market” and unhappiness with how Wilson handled the aftermath of the Bite of Seattle mass shooting. Some members of the black community feel like she scapegoated the now-former police chief, Shon Barnes, for what happened and the city’s bungled response to it. A recall attempt is also underway:
Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson, 4 months ago: "To the ones that leave, like bye! Hahaha!"
Starbucks HQ just fired 224 in Seattle
2k new jobs are coming to Nashville pic.twitter.com/tkit82Gm2m
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) August 21, 2026
Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson is facing a recall effort accusing her of being “derelict” in her public-safety duties. The petition cites crime concerns, the deactivation of city security cameras and Wilson’s decision to force Police Chief Shon Barnes to resign days after the deadly… pic.twitter.com/TmJXkl0R8N
— TalkRadio 77 WABC (@77WABCradio) August 19, 2026
Here’s the process for the recall effort:
- Someone must file a petition for removal.
- The King County Prosecutor’s Civil Office reviews the petition for technical errors, such as improper signatures and whether the filing parties are registered Seattle voters. If the petition passes that check, the petition is forwarded to a judge for a hearing.
- If the judge decides the case is legitimate, then the petitioners have 180 days to collect 69,000 signatures supporting the recall from registered Seattle voters.
- If all of that is successful, a special election date would be set, the election would be held, and Katie Wilson’s future as Seattle mayor would be put to a vote.
A hearing on the matter will take place in King County Superior Court on August 31.
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Comments
You know Olive Oyl is hopeless when she can’t get either Popeye or Bluto to take her in.
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Olive was a lot smarter.
It’s not like she is in any way qualified for the job.
I hope her mommy didn’t rent out the basement yet.
WTF did they expect!?! They elected a socialist moron, DEI puppy who is still on Mommy and Daddy’s allowance! Idiots, fester in your own filth for a while.
How can this idiot have an approval rating of 37%, That’s 37% too high. Seriously, the stupidity of voters in Seattle, Boston, NYC, Chicago, Minneapolis and so on is mind blowing.
She can have an approval rating of 37 percent the same way she got elected; the Seattle voters are fools
37% of Seattle are criminals who like what she’s doing?
Just like the kid who graduates last in his med school class is called, “doctor”, unless they recall her, she’s still called “mayor’! (And Seattle voters are so dumb they’ll do it to themselves everytime the opportunity presents itself).
Let’s not scapegoat her too much here. Sure, she’s a socialist and an idiot (but I repeat myself) but the voters knew that when they elected her.
File this under The Mencken Doctrine: “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.”
The preview of DSA/wokiesta incompetent governance on full display. Maybe voters will be wise enough to learn from the mistakes of other jurisdictions and avoid painful experience themselves but I have my doubts.
In the unlikely event they recall her and even more unlikely that the recall succeeds, the fools that elected her to begin with will replace her with the same or worse.
“We have met the enemy and he is us.”
I remember Pogo.
Same.
“Looks like Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s got some competition for the title of most unpopular socialist mayor in America.”
But the field of competitors is filling up fast!
You mean another Socialist Utopia not working?
Her replacement will be just as bad, if not worse.
Stupid is as stupid does, and Seattle is incapable of electing anybody but a lunatic far leftist.
absolutely they have learned nothing from this experience.
This is one is not shocking is it? I’d feel bad for Seattle if I wasn’t laughing so hard. I’m sure they’ll just find a Mamdopey type politician and elect him. All the cool kids are doing it!
66% have been affected by her policies and realize the mistake they have made.
22% have not been affected by her policies and don’t care what her policies have done to Seattle.
12% are too stupid to realize the mistake they have made
66% think the mistake they made was ‘electing the wrong Democrat’.
Stupid is as stupid does.
I think I can see where the wheels come off this one.
Yes, because the recall is based on alleged malfeasance, IIRC. But being a clueless idiot out of her depth is not technically malfeasance. The judge could easily quash the whole petition by finding inadequate evidence for that charge. Dismissed.
It is Seattle, after all.
Can we say “deservedly cruel” summer?
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