NCS information analyst Harry Enten warned Democrats towards celebrating President Donald Trump’s poor polling numbers when their very own leaders aren’t so “hot to trot.”
The 37-year-old information guru dug into the favorability numbers for congressional Democrat leaders on Friday’s NCS News Central and located that they’re extremely unpopular—significantly Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.
“Take a look at how Democrats disapprove of congressional democratic leaders,” stated Enten. “Hello! We‘re talking about 57 percent in January of 2026, the second-highest disapproval rate for democratic leaders from their own party on record!”
Enten revealed that Democrats in Congress are historically unpopular. / Screengrab / NCS
The highest disapproval rate on record is 61 percent, recorded in April 2025, Enten revealed.
“There‘s basically been no improvement,” he said. “Democrats hate their own congressional leaders. These numbers are awful, awful, awful.”
NCS News Central‘s John Berman described the bleak numbers as “Democrat on Democrat” crime before asking Enten about the cause for the unrest.
“Why is there a Democrat on Democrat crime?” asked Enten. “It just simply comes down to this: They don‘t think their leaders are fighting enough. Dems who say congressional Dems are doing too little to oppose Donald Trump: In February of 2025, it was 73 percent. Now that number is up to 78 percent.”
“Democrats want fighters in Congress, and at this point, they do not believe that the Democrats in Congress are fighting enough to oppose President Trump‘s agenda,” Enten concluded.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries polls well with Democrats despite Dem voters’ overall dissatisfaction with their party. / Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Imag
Enten then revealed the culprit behind Democrats’ distaste for their leaders.
“Who are they taking their anger out on? It‘s not Hakeem Jeffries, the Democratic leader in the House. It‘s the Democratic Senate leader Chuck Schumer.”
Enten compared the two leaders’ favorability rankings amongst Democrats from the beginning of Trump’s second time period to January 2026. Jeffries acquired a seven-point bump from +22 favorability to +29. Schumer’s quantity dropped from +11 to -2.
“I went back and I looked at every single democratic Senate leader,” stated Enten. “I looked at all the polling I could. (Schumer) polls the lowest for any democratic Senate leader among Democrats dating back the last 40 years.”
Chuck Schumer has confronted the brunt of Democrats’ ire for their perceived ineffectual resistance to the Trump administration. / Nathan Posner/Anadolu through Getty Images
Schumer, 75, has served because the chief of Senate Democrats since 2017. However, he’s been slammed by Democrats on quite a few points all through the primary yr of Trump’s second time period.
In March, get together leaders, together with Nancy Pelosi and Tim Walz, called for Schumer to step down as Senate chief after he sided with Republicans on passing the federal government funding invoice.
In November, he confronted renewed calls to step down after Democratic senators broke the Dems’ filibuster in a spending invoice stalemate that triggered the longest shutdown in U.S. historical past. At the time, Schumer’s reputation amongst Democrats dropped to -4.
In January, he was harshly criticized for appearing chummy with Secretary of State Marco Rubio after the United States kidnapped Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro.
Schumer drew warmth for palling round with Rubio after the United States kidnapped Nicolás Maduro. / Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images
Currently, he’s going through warmth for refusing to commit to voting against giving ICE more funding.
The controversies could catch as much as Schumer when his place as Democratic Senate chief is up for re-election following the 2026 midterms. Enten revealed that on the betting platform Kalshi, solely 56 p.c of bettors imagine that Schumer will retain his Senate management place after 2026.
“That‘s quite a low number given how long he served as Democratic Senate leader,” Enten noticed.