A poll released Thursday shows freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., is facing negative reviews from voters.
The Quinnipiac University survey, which also included multiple questions about various issues and figures in the Democratic Party, shows 36 percent of respondents gave Ocasio-Cortez an unfavorable rating while 23 gave her a favorable one. Thirty-eight percent said they didn’t know enough about her.
Thirty-six percent of respondents said Ocasio-Cortez is a bad influence on the party while 33 percent of voters said she was a good influence.
The only age group in which she registered positive favorability numbers was among likely voters aged 18-34. Among millennials, she received a 35 percent favorable rating compared to to 23 percent unfavorable.
“All is definitely not A-OK for AOC. Most voters either don’t like the firebrand freshman Congresswoman or don’t know who she is,” Tim Malloy, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll, said in a statement after the poll was released.
The Quinnipiac University poll interviewed 1,358 likely voters nationwide via telephone from March 21-25. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.3 percentage points.
Earlier this month, a Gallup poll showed a stark uptick in Ocasio-Cortez’s unfavorability. For the first time since she took office, the majority of Americans viewed the New York lawmaker negatively, increasing from 26 percent to 41 percent.
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