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February 28, 2024
Mitch McConnell will step down from his position as the Republican leader of the Senate in November.
According to a February 2024 AP-NORC Poll completed just days before McConnell’s announcement, only 28% of Republicans have a favorable view of him and 45% hold an unfavorable view.
Democrats hold more favorable views of their Senate leader, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, than Republicans have towards McConnell. About a third of Republicans hold favorable views toward House Speaker Mike Johnson and about a third of Democrats view House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries favorably. Even among their own party members, about half do not know enough about each leader to have an opinion.
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The nationwide poll was conducted February 22-26, 2024 using the AmeriSpeak® Panel, the probability-based panel of NORC at the University of Chicago. Online and telephone interviews using landlines and cell phones were conducted with 1,102 adults. The margin of sampling error is +/- 4.1 percentage points for all adults.
• Suggested Citation: AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. (February 2024). “Few Republicans have a favorable opinion of Senate Minority leader McConnell” https://apnorc.org/projects/few-republicans-have-a-favorable-opinion-of-senate-minority-leader-mcconnell