The liberal group Data for Progress conducted the survey of likely Democratic voters.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is leading Chuck Schumer by double digits in a new head-to-head poll of the 2028 New York primary.
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.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaks with reporters after a House Democratic Caucus meeting on Capitol Hill on Feb. 11, 2025. | Francis Chung/POLITICO
By Holly Otterbein
04/04/2025 05:00 AM EDT
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is leading Chuck Schumer by double digits in a new head-to-head poll of the 2028 New York primary.
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.
“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,” said Danielle Deiseroth, executive director of Data for Progress.
Deiseroth added that her firm “has a long tradition of wanting to challenge the status quo of Democratic Party leadership” and released polling in 2021 showing then-Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema was vulnerable to a primary challenge. Sinema later registered as an independent and declined to run for reelection.
Time to call literally EVERYONE. Anyone in Congressional leadership should be called. Even if they don't represent you directly. Just make sure that you state that you are calling them because of their leadership position.
For example: "Senator John Thune, I am calling because you are the Senate Majority leader and I am sure that you value and love the Constitution as much as I do. The president's posts on Truth Social and on the official White House social media pages declaring himself King are a direct threat to the Constitution. Please use the power placed in your hands as a co-equal branch of government and remove him from office. If necessary, please reach out to Vice President Vance and ask for the 25th Amendment to be implemented. Thank you so much for your time. I know you will stand up for the Founding Principles of America."
I am not his constituent, but I was able to reach his DC office and they took my comment and said they would pass it on. I profusely thanked her and apologized for bothering her for matters outside of South Dakota, but reiterated that I was calling because he's the Senate Majority Leader and has more legislative obligations to the country than just to his state.
Senator John Thune
Senate Majority Leader
DC Office: 202-224-2321
Aberdeen: 605-225-8823
Sioux Falls: 605-334-9596
Rapid City: 605-348-7551
Speaker Mike Johnson
Speaker of the House
DC Office: 202-225-2777
Bossier City: 318-840-0309
DeRidder: 337-226-6385
Northwestern State University: 337-423-423
Rep Hakeem Jeffries
House Minority Leader
DC Office: 202-225-5936
Central Brooklyn: 718-237-2211
South Brooklyn: 718-373-0033
Senator Chuck Schumer
Senate Minority Leader
DC Office: 202-224-6542
You can also use FaxZero.com to send free faxes to the Representatives and Senators who have fax numbers. I saved the image above as a PDF and included it as an attachment with the cover letter asking for Congress to remove Trump as a direct threat to the Constitution.
Vote Blue, Vote Democrat 2020 and make Mitch McConnell and the Republicans pay a political price if they replace Justice Ginsburg’s Supreme Court seat before January of next year. They stoled President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee in 2016 and wouldn’t even allow any hearings.
Three parts to his plan. One, get cash on a sliding scale for trading in your internal combustion vehicle. Two, grants to states to construct charging stations. Three, grants to build new factories to build electric vehicles or convert existing factories. Total price tag? $454 billion over ten years. Seems cheaper relative to allowing our cars to continue to spew greenhouse gas emissions.
Excerpt from this Washington Post story:
Charles E. Schumer, the top Senate Democrat, is rolling out a plan to spend billions of dollars to spur American drivers to buy electric and other low-emissions vehicles.
The proposal, released late Thursday, is a signal that establishment Democrats are heeding calls from the party’s activist base to go on offense on the issue of climate change after years of little action from the Senate under both Republican and Democratic leaders.
And it is squarely aimed at what is now the biggest source of carbon dioxide emissions in the United States — the transportation sector, which recently surpassed power plants as the nation’s biggest contributor of greenhouse gases.
“This proposal to bring clean cars to all of America will be a key component of the far-reaching climate legislation from Senate Democrats, and I’m proud it has a broad coalition of support,” Schumer (D-N.Y.) said in a statement.
The success of proposals such as Schumer’s will determine whether the United States can curtail the nation’s contributions to climate change and help forestall further warming that scientists from around the world consider dangerous. Schumer’s office estimates its plan would take 63 million gasoline-powered cars off the road by 2030.
But it comes with a big price tag: $392 billion over 10 years.
The plan is essentially “Cash for Clunkers” on steroids, harking back to an early Obama administration scrappage program that encouraged motorists to trade in older cars for newer and more fuel-efficient vehicles.
Under the program, car owners who trade in a gasoline-powered vehicle for a new plug-in electric, plug-in hybrid, or hydrogen fuel-cell car will get a rebate starting at $3,000, potentially going up by thousands of dollars the farther a vehicle can go without recharging. In many instances, that rebate would far exceed the existing $7,500 tax credit for electric vehicles.
The plan, which doesn't have any legislative text yet, would also give another $45 billion in funding to states and cities to install charging stations and other infrastructure. It would also dedicate $17 billion to two grant programs to build new factories for electric vehicles and to remodel factories that make cars with internal-combustion engines or parts for them.
"You might object: Isn’t the transition to electric vehicles already happening?" Schumer writes in a New York Times op-ed announcing his plan. "Yes, but it is progressing too slowly."
Schumer’s ideas stand virtually no chance of becoming law with Republicans in control of the Senate and President Trump in the White House. But the plan is part of a promise the senator from New York is making to bring major climate legislation to the Senate floor should Democrats win the chamber in the 2020 election and he be chosen by his peers as majority leader.
Let me begin by stating, I am just a woman, I have no political aspirations. I am self-employed and have no one to answer too. I have no person to take down from a powerful position. In fact, if I saw my abusers walking down the street today, I wouldn’t even recognize them. Like many others, I am sharing my story to empower women and to encourage women like myself to share their stories to bring an awareness to the sexual debasement that has been going on since the beginning of time. But if we keep sitting in silence, if we are too afraid to tell our stories, we are doing a disservice to the women who come after us. We must talk, we must fight, and we must stand together to empower one another.
Since our President and our current administration believe that a sexual assault that happened too long ago just didn’t happen, I can no longer be silent.
Approximately 26 years ago, I was a victim of a sexual rape/assault. I say assault or rape because even at the mature age of 55 and with all of my life's experiences, I am still confused by the role that I played in becoming the victim and that is really sad. I still find it difficult to categorize what happened to me.
It was the summer of 1991, in Bakersfield, California. I was approximately 27 years old. I was walking through a parking lot with a girlfriend to go to the movies. While walking a very handsome black man pulled up next to us in his car and began talking with me. I explained we were on our way to the movies and we were running late. Flattered no doubt, I gave him my telephone number to call me at a later time. The next day he called and asked if we could go to dinner. I explained that I couldn’t because I had a daughter and wouldn’t be free until that following weekend because she was going to Los Angeles to spend the summer with my parents. We spoke a few times throughout the week over the phone and he seemed to be a very nice articulate well educated man . The following weekend he invited me to come to his house for the 4th of July because he was going to a barbecue for the holiday. I agreed to come. He insisted on picking me up, but I insisted on driving myself (and I am so glad that I did). We had spoken on the phone a few times and personally, I felt safe enough to visit his home.
When I arrived at his apartment he opened the door I walked in and there standing in the kitchen was a Caucasian female. Naturally, as a woman, I immediately felt some type of way seeing another female there when I believed it was just going to be the two of us. She was very nice and before long we all sat down and began to talk. They informed me they were roommates and had been best friends for years. He was going back and forth on the patio to turn the meat on the grill. In the meantime, she asked if I wanted a drink. I told her my preference was rum and coke, they were drinking beer. Mind you, at this age, I could drink. I could actually drink more than most men and not get drunk, so I was not a lightweight when it came to drinking alcohol. She went into the kitchen (that was visible from where I was sitting) and began to make me a drink. She told me she was a 1st-grade school teacher and we began talking about teaching children because I explained that I wanted to become a teacher as well.
I began drinking my drink that she made me and we all continued our conversation about life and everything seemed normal. It didn’t even seem awkward that she was a third wheel at this get together. As we sat in the living room laughing and talking and listening to music, soon my “date” began to get a little "handsy" with me while sitting on the couch. I told him to stop and that I was uncomfortable (especially with an extra set of eyes in the room). He stopped, and we continued talking. Soon I was about 3 or 4 drinks in and the party starting changing beyond my control. I don’t even remember eating (not sure that I did). Everything was starting to get a little blurry and even today I have to admit I had no idea that I had been “Bill Cosby’d” at that time. I remember my "date" went into a room and came out naked holding a golf club. He stood in the middle of the living room and began swinging the golf club in a golfing motion. I remember telling them that I was leaving and she stated that he does this all of the time. I remember standing up and then sitting back down, I could hardly stand. I knew something was happening to me but I couldn’t control what was happening to my mind and body at that time.
I remember being pulled into a bedroom that had a canopy bed and I remember white chiffon draping hanging from the bed. Then it happened to me. I was being raped by this man. I do not remember how my clothes came off, I don’t remember the act, but I do remember him being aggressive and it seemed to take forever (maybe it wasn’t because I was really out of it). I was coming in and out of consciousness throughout the entire time. I don’t remember fighting back because I couldn’t. My mind seemed to be all over the place. At some point, I believed I blacked out for a period of time. When I woke up, I remember being confused trying to figure out where I was. I remembered he leaned over to ask if I wanted some water, I remember telling him that I did and I remember being very thirsty. As he left the room I remember looking at my naked body lying in this bed confused and trying to understand what I had done. While lying there I heard the two of them arguing with one another. I was not sure what they were arguing about I was just trying to figure out what I was doing here. I had apparently dozed off again and when I came to I noticed she was now sitting on the side of the bed holding a glass of water with her hand on my leg, while I was sprawled out naked on the bed. I remember her asking me if I was okay. I remember telling her to get her f’ing hand off of my leg and I remember jumping off of the bed as she was leaving the room and I began searching for my clothes while they began arguing with one another again. I put on what clothing I could find (I left some clothing behind) and I remember bursting out of the room running for the front door. I remember him grabbing me and trying to hold me back, telling me that I couldn’t drive. I remember cursing, yelling and telling them that they were up to no good. I finally broke free from his grip and the one thing I remember most about that entire night were the words that he said to me as I was leaving. He stated, “these are the 90′s and you need to get with the times”. I left and he called me a few times the next day but I would just hang up the phone, after which I never heard from him again. It is true that God watches out for fools and babies because somehow I made it home safe in my inebriated state.
I never reported the incident (although I hate that I didn’t) but I now wonder, how many people have they done this to before and after me. I went on with my life. I was pissed off (with myself and them) and distrusting for a great while. I will never forget the incident however it didn’t alter my life because at this point in my life I had already dealt with many other traumatic moments. Because I didn’t report it doesn’t mean that it didn’t happen, because it did. All of these years later, I have only told about 4 people. I told my daughter when she came of drinking age. I told her never, ever have someone make your drink unless you are at a bar or restaurant. I told my best friend Leon, who is the person who encouraged me to tell my story and I told perhaps two other people who I was hanging around at the time.
WHY I DIDN’T TELL?
I am not sure why I never told and why many others before me refuse to tell their stories publicly. Perhaps, because many of you are judging the validity of my story right now. Perhaps, it was because I didn’t want to hear the why’s, why you didn’t leave, why did you go in the first place, why was I drinking, why I didn’t fight, why, why, why? Perhaps, because somehow in my mind, I made it my fault. Because I didn’t want to bring shame to my loving parents. Because perhaps after telling my story, my life may be viewed differently. But thanks given to our President, our current administration and the vile climate in America right now, I just don’t care anymore.
