of Democrats in our 31 October polls want someone other than Chuck Schumer to lead the Senate
14,075 responses from 9,830 likely voters · margin of error ±1.6 points
The two shares count Democrats who explicitly want someone else for each leadership position. Overlapping intervals remain tied or split. Pooled across our 31 separate state and district polls; not a national sample. Likely voters in the named October state and district polls; not a national sample or forecast. Pooled figures are respondent-proportional descriptive summaries of separate electorates. Each poll’s subgroup weights are normalized to its answered-question n; repeated people remain in record n but their weights are collapsed for Kish effective n. MOEs are approximate pointwise 95% half-widths in percentage points, without adjustment for exploratory multiple comparisons. They do not include all coverage, nonresponse, recall, calibration or selection uncertainty. Wald intervals can extend outside percentage bounds; an observed zero is not a population zero. Unknown and indifferent answers remain in denominators. Fewer than 50 distinct people is suppressed; 50–99 means interpret with caution.
60.1% of Democrats in our 31 October polls want someone other than Chuck Schumer to lead the Senate (95% margin of error ±1.6 points). 37.3% of Democrats in our 31 October polls want someone other than Hakeem Jeffries as Speaker (95% margin of error ±1.6 points). The featured estimate uses 14,075 responses from 9,830 distinct people, with an effective sample size of 3450.4. The two shares count Democrats who explicitly want someone else for each leadership position. Overlapping intervals remain tied or split. Pooled across our 31 separate state and district polls; not a national sample. Likely voters in the named October state and district polls; not a national sample or forecast. Pooled figures are respondent-proportional descriptive summaries of separate electorates. Each poll’s subgroup weights are normalized to its answered-question n; repeated people remain in record n but their weights are collapsed for Kish effective n. MOEs are approximate pointwise 95% half-widths in percentage points, without adjustment for exploratory multiple comparisons. They do not include all coverage, nonresponse, recall, calibration or selection uncertainty. Wald intervals can extend outside percentage bounds; an observed zero is not a population zero. Unknown and indifferent answers remain in denominators. Fewer than 50 distinct people is suppressed; 50–99 means interpret with caution.
The questions, as asked
If Democrats win control of the House of Representatives in the 2026 election, should Hakeem Jeffries become Speaker of the House, or should Democrats choose someone else?
Do you consider yourself a Democrat, a Republican, an independent or a member of another party?
If Democrats win control of the Senate in the 2026 election, should Chuck Schumer become Majority Leader, or should Democrats choose someone else?
