NEW YORK — Rep. George Santos has almost no public support among his constituents, and the vast majority want the fabulist congressman to resign immediately, according to a new poll released Tuesday.
But perhaps most damning is that an overwhelming majority of those who voted for Santos less than 90 days ago now say they would not have done so if they knew the truth.
In all, about 78% of registered voters in New York’s 3rd District want Santos to resign, according to the Newsday/Siena College poll. That includes 89% of Democrats, 72% of independents and 71% of his own Republican voters.
In fact, Siena pollsters divided respondents in 18 different ways, including by age, geography, religion and income, and in each of the 18 demographic segments, at least 70% of respondents wanted Santos to resign.
Only 13% of those surveyed say that Santos should not resign, and only 7% say they have an explicitly favorable opinion of the first-term congressman, whose list of admitted and accused lies and misdeeds has lengthened by the day since last month. .
Of those surveyed who admitted having voted for Santos last November, 63% said they would not have done so if they had known then what they now know about him.
The poll of 653 registered voters in District 3 was conducted January 23-26 and had a margin of error of 4.4 percentage points.
