78% of voters in Republican Rep. George Santos' district want him to resign: poll
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- An overwhelming number of Rep. George Santos' own constituents want the Republican to resign.
- According to a new poll, 78% of voters in Santos' district want him to step down.
- The poll underlines the intense pressure Santos is under amid a stream of endless scandals.
An overwhelming majority of New Yorkers, including fellow Republicans, want Rep. George Santos to resign from Congress amid an endless stream of reports about he lied to voters about his experience before winning his seat.
According to a newly released Newsday/Siena College Poll, 78% of voters in Santos' district who responded to the survey want him to step down.
The view was broadly supported by 71% of Republican respondents, 72% of independents, and 89% of Democrats.
Even 71% of overall voters think it was "wrong" for House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to allow Santos to serve on two committees, a view that would have left the district worse represented on Capitol Hill as committees are where most legislation is shaped.
On Tuesday morning, CNN's Manu Raju reported that Santos privately told his House GOP colleagues that he would recuse himself from his two committee assignments for an undetermined length of time.
As Insider previously pointed out, Santos' scandals have made him extremely well-known considering he just won his first term. According to the poll, he has a 90% name recognition in his district, recognition on par with Gov. Kathy Hochul (89%) and surpasses McCarthy (82%), and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jefferies (60%). Former Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin, who ran unsuccessfully for governor and represented a nearby district for four terms, is also less recognized than Santos, who has been in office a month.
That 71% of Republicans in his own district want him to step down is particularly remarkable, as the 3rd District was a hotly contested one in the 2022 midterm elections and the House GOP is holding on to its majority by a thread.
The Newsday/Siena College poll was conducted from January 23-26. It was based on a sample of 653 registered voters in New York's Third Congressional District, and it has a margin of error of +/- 4.4 points. The entire methodology and crosstabs are available here.
The stunning, although not surprising findings illustrate how Santos faces significant hurdles to winning reelection if he is even able to make it to November 2024. The poll comes after fellow New York House Republicans and some influential conservatives in the state previously called on Santos to resign.
"The arrogance and just the lack of judgment and pushing to see how far he could go makes me feel that, as a Republican, voting for him was a joke," Jillian O'Connor, a 42-year-old Republican, told the pollsters. "It seems like he was putting on a show, setting an example of what you can do if you cheat and lie from the beginning."
The poll also found that nearly 2/3rds of respondents who voted for Santos in November would not have voted for him if they know what they know about him now.
So far, the freshman lawmaker has rebuffed those calls. McCarthy has stuck by Santos, a show of support that belies how Republicans flipped a competitive seat and could struggle to retain it in a special election. The GOP holds just a four-seat majority in the chamber.
According to the poll, 86% of respondents within his district have an unfavorable view of George Santos, with a fascinating 6% who claim to possess a favorable view, a negative 80 percent net favorability rating that needless to say bodes ill for Santos' future in American politics.
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