Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) has had a few blows to his career this year, the first of which was losing the majority of the upper chamber of Congress with the installment of the 119th Congress.

The second seems to be his own party turning on him when he supported a reasonable bi-partisan measure to keep the government funded with a continuing resolution.

According to a recent report by Breitbart News Schumer might have more voters thinking poorly of him than think well of him.

The Economist/YouGov poll showed that 55% of those polled see Schumer unfavorably, and just 22% see him favorably.

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This might not seem too unusual since the leaning of the total country reflected in the makeup of the Senate is slightly more Republican than Democrat. However, Democrats specifically view Schumer more unfavorably than favorably.

The data indicates that 41% of Democrats see the Senate leader negatively, and 39% see him positively.

It appears as if the Democrat's decision to push hard against Republicans worked in its own way, and Democrats were convinced that the Republican plan was for the worst.

Because of the bad press on their own base, voters didn't care for Schumer's decision to support the version of the bill that eventually reached his chamber of Congress.

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Additionally, since the late February survey, “the share of very or somewhat favorable views of Schumer among Democrats have fallen from 57% to 39%, while unfavorable views of Schumer among Democrats have risen from 18% to 41%,” the Economist/YouGov said in a summary of this week’s findings.

The document also observed that his popularity has decreased among moderate Democrats, liberal Democrats, and very liberal Democrats.

Schumer's declining favorability rating is a direct result of the Democrat outrage that ensued after he conceded and declared his intention to vote for cloture on the Republican's measure to fund the government, thereby preventing a government shutdown.

Backlash

Breitbart News earlier reported that Schumer was given a lot of bad feedback from Democrats frustrated with his decision.

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From the other side of the asile, however, President Donad Trump had quite the opposite feedback, praising Schumner's "courage" to do the right thing in his support for the continuing resolution.

For his part, Schumer said during an appearance on CNN’s The Lead, “We always knew there would be disagreements, but I felt and those who voted with me felt that as bad as the CR was, and I know a lot of members didn’t like the CR, the government shutdown would be far worse."