An anonymous Democratic group leaked a poll that shows swing voters deeply dislike Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the left wing, widening the party’s rift
Eliza Relman

July 16, 2019

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•An anonymous Democratic group leaked an internal poll to Axios on Sunday that shows “swing voters” deeply dislike prominent progressive lawmakers, deepening a public rift within the party.
•The poll found that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had a 22% approval rating and Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota had a 9% approval rating among 1,003 “likely general-election voters who are white and have two years or less of college education” and knew of the two outspoken lawmakers.
•”If all voters hear about is AOC, it could put the [House] majority at risk,” a Democrat involved in the 2020 congressional races told Axios. “She’s getting all the news and defining everyone else’s races.”
•Some pollsters criticized the poll for looking at a small slice of the voting public that is disinclined to approve of the left.
•The poll’s methodology and the questions it asked were not made public.
•Progressives decried the Democratic group’s move as an attack on the left wing of the party.
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An anonymous Democratic group leaked an internal poll to Axios on Sunday that shows white non-college-educated “swing voters” deeply dislike prominent progressive lawmakers, exacerbating a public rift within the Democratic party.

The poll found that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had a 22% approval rating and Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota had a 9% approval rating among 1,003 “likely general-election voters who are white and have two years or less of college education” and knew of the two outspoken lawmakers. A whopping 74% of these voters had heard of Ocasio-Cortez, while 53% had heard of Omar.

“If all voters hear about is AOC, it could put the [House] majority at risk,” a Democrat involved in the 2020 congressional races told Axios. “She’s getting all the news and defining everyone else’s races.”

The survey looked at a slice of the voting public that is disinclined to approve of the left. Some progressive pollsters and others argued that the poll results were taken out of context and pointed to other polls that show more moderate Democrats like Joe Biden also have relatively low approval ratings among white non-college-educated voters as well.

The May survey was shared with Axios “on the condition that it not be named, because the group has to work with all parts of the party,” the site wrote. The partisan poll’s methodology and the questions it asked were not made public, provoking criticism from some progressive pollsters and others. Axios wrote that many of the surveyed voters supported Trump in 2016 and live in purple districts.

Some progressives argued that the Democratic group’s move marked the latest attack on the left wing of the party.

“It’s infuriating and truly bizarre that Democratic leaders and consultants released anti-AOC and anti-Ilhan polls to the press **under the condition of anonymity** this morning,” Waleed Shahid, the communications director for Justice Democrats, tweeted on Sunday.

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