Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is, in many ways, the de facto standard-bearer of the Democratic Party right now, but not all of the party's voting base, including many of his own constituents in New York, are satisfied with the job he's doing in that role.

A new poll found that more than half of New York voters think Schumer should be replaced as the Senate Democratic Leader, while only around one-third said he was doing an "excellent" or "good" job as the party's leader, according to The Hill.

Those disappointing poll results for Schumer come amid an underwater favorability rating nationwide and on the heels of a separate survey that found most New York Democrats would prefer to see progressive leftist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) replace Schumer in the Senate.

New Yorkers displeased with Schumer's job performance, leadership

Over the first week of April, Marist polled more than 1,100 registered New York voters, nearly half of whom are Democrats, with a 3.6% margin of error, and asked a series of questions about the Empire State and its top elected leaders, including Sen. Schumer.

On the job that Schumer is doing in the Senate, just 34% said he was doing "excellent" (13%) or "good" (21%), while 56% thought he was doing "fair" (20%) or "poor" (36%), with 10% undecided.

Among just Democratic voters in New York, Schumer fared slightly better, as a combined 47% rated his job performance as "excellent" (20%) or "good" (27%), while 46% believed it was just "fair" (26%) or "poor" (20%), with the remainder undecided.

As for his role as the Democratic Leader in the Senate, 44% of New York voters think he should remain in that position, compared to 55% who think another Democratic senator should replace him.

Again, the numbers for Schumer were better among just Democratic voters, but only just barely, as 50% said he should continue to be the Democratic Leader while 48% said he should be replaced.

NY Dems think AOC should replace Schumer in the Senate

It was little more than a week earlier that Politico reported on a poll conducted in late March by leftist firm Data for Progress on the upcoming 2028 Democratic Senate primary in New York, which found that Sen. Schumer was not the top choice for the state's Democratic voters.

Rather, 55% of New York Democrats said they'd likely support Rep. Ocasio-Cortez to replace Schumer, while just 36% said they'd continue to back the incumbent senator and 9% said they were undecided on who should be the party's nominee.

Both Politico and The Hill suggested that the poor polling results for Schumer were indicative of mounting frustration among the Democratic base over his perceived failure to sufficiently oppose and stymie President Donald Trump and his policy agenda.

The last straw for many of the Democrats now demanding that Schumer be replaced as the leader and as senator was his decision last month to vote in favor of a Republican-backed short-term spending bill to avoid a potentially calamitous partial government shutdown, as many Democrats would seemingly prefer to see the federal government grind to a halt rather than see Trump succeed in any capacity.

Schumer the least popular leader in D.C.

It is just New Yorkers and Democrats who've grown tired of Sen. Schumer and his leadership, however, as RealClearPolling's favorability rating average for the senator shows that he is deeply unpopular with the American people.

On average, Schumer is viewed favorably by just 27.4% of Americans and unfavorably by 46.3%, giving him a net negative favorability rating of -18.9%, which is substantially worse than the combined ratings of the president and other congressional leaders, including -4.4% for President Trump; -4.6% for Schumer's counterpart, Senate Republican Leader John Thune (R-SD); -4.3% for House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA); and 0.4% for House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY).