What to Know
- A large majority of New York voters, including about half of Republicans, believe that Rep. George Santos should resign from Congress amid the ongoing scandal surrounding his record of lying, according to a new poll released Monday.
- Some 59% of voters called for Santos to resign in a new Siena College poll, compared with 17% who said he should remain in office. (The rest did not know or had no opinion).
- Santos had some “support” in the poll, it was among Latino voters, of whom only 33% said he should definitely resign, versus 24% who said he shouldn’t.
NEW YORK — A large majority of New York voters, including about half of Republicans, believe that Rep. George Santos should resign from Congress amid the ongoing scandal surrounding his record of lying, according to a new poll released on monday.
Some 59% of voters called for Santos to resign in a new Siena College poll, compared with 17% who said he should remain in office. (The rest did not know or had no opinion).
Nearly half of Republicans, 49% overall, called for him to go, as did 54% of those who identified as politically conservative. More than 7 in 10 suburban voters said he should leave office, a difficult result for Santos, whose third district is mostly suburban Nassau County.
To the extent that Santos had any “support” in the poll, it was among Latino voters, of whom only 33% said he should definitely resign, versus 24% who said he shouldn’t. (Nearly half of the Latino voters surveyed said they didn’t know or had no opinion, far more than any other demographic group surveyed.)
Separately, Siena also asked voters if they had a favorable or unfavorable opinion of Santos. At -40, he had by far the worst net score in the poll, even lower than Donald Trump’s -33.
The online and telephone poll of 821 registered voters was conducted January 15-19 and has a margin of error of 4.3 percentage points.
